I delivered the Edmonton Journal and flyers. I remember I had to deliver to a couple funeral homes and found it so damn creepy at 5am. In the spring/summer I would deliver my route with rollerblades which was awesome. I had this whole technique where I'd use their stairs to stop with the toe of my boot, run up the stairs, drop the paper/flyer, then fly down the driveway (sometimes hitting vehicle side mirrors on the way
). I also loved the flyer days where you'd deliver the big things like phone books or those consumer distributing catalogues since you'd get paid way more (I feel like it was 50 cents per phone book or something).
Honestly crazy that I would be more or less left to my own devices early in the morning as a 10-13 year old without any supervision. This sort of thing is going to be completely foreign to my son, who is now 2.