Winter New (Seed Catalog) Moon
Our newspaper has been late the last two mornings. Yes, I know that shows our age, as if
we’ve insisted on the outhouse in a day of indoor plumbing, but as Kate said yesterday, “I like the feel of it in my hand.” (the newspaper.) As a long time newspaper carrier myself, I know the problems of getting a newspaper consistently in the hands of customers.
In this case it could be a difficult to start car, a substitute (my guess), a late start, late delivery of the bundled newspapers and, in the case of a substitute, one who’s slower or who’s delivering the route in a different order or who has forgotten us. At any rate my empathy is with these folks who get up so early, the newspaper is almost always here before 6 am, and who deliver throughout the year, come rain or come snow.
I doubt any of them do it 7 days a week, probably a week and a weekend route, but it’s still a lot of dedication for what I imagine is not a lot of money. At least they don’t have to collect. When I carried the Alexandria Times-Tribune, I had to collect each Friday and it made those evenings much longer than the rest.
Anyhow, a tip of the hat here to all those involved in the old fashioned work of producing a physical means of delivering the news. Up here in Andover Kate and I still appreciate it.
