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Local paper deliveries

August 3rd, 2007 · Posted by Skuds in Life · 9 Comments · Life

At the last Broadfield Forum somebody who lives on the estate over the road from us mentioned that they do not get the Crawley News delivered to them. Charlie and Chrystal deliver the paper on this side of the road, but would prefer to have a round each instead of sharing the payment between them, so we called the distribution office to ask whether there was a round going over the road.

We just assumed that the paper was delivered to everywhere and if a road didn’t get it that was because they couldn’t find anyone to deliver it, but it turns out to be more complicated than that.

When Jayne spoke to the distribution office she was told that they do not deliver to the Hammond Rd estate because they are not allowed to. I didn’t really understand the reasons for this. It was something about them only being allowed to deliver to a certain number of houses in the town. It does not make any sense to me.

Who puts a limit on a newspaper’s circulation? Did they come to some arrangement at a point in time and can’t deliver to any new addresses which come along after that?

The residents of Hammond Rd. and all the roads coming off it, not only do not get the Crawley News but they don’t get the bi-monthly Crawley Live magazine from the council, which means they miss out on a lot of information there.

Is there anyone with some knowledge of local paper distribution who can explain exactly why some houses are unable to get a copy of the local paper, and who decides which houses can and which houses can’t?

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  • jas

    i would like to do paper round for you i am 13 years old and am a student in Hazelwick i am despret for some cash please reply

  • Danivon

    What is it about Hazlewick? It used to be regarded as the best school in the town:

    http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/2008/09/19/nuclear-bombs-dont-exist/

  • Skuds

    Jas – I can only suggest you call the Crawley News and get on their waiting list for a round. There should be a number listed in the paper somewhere.

  • Lewis Brackpool

    Hello My name is lewis and i am in Desperate Need of a paperround around crawley.. i am a student of oriel High School.. and i am 15 years of age.. Please notify me if i have got the job!

    Thanks Regards,
    Lewis

  • Esme

    hi im Esme i am soon moving to maidenbower and wan’t to start a paper round but don’t know how to go about it, i go to Holy Trinity School

  • Nimrod

    hi my names Nimwod , i already deliveer leaflets and nesapapars thank you ! i go to the univershal sh-coool of Poly-tick-Nick’s, and we are about to get ouf fwirst MEP !!

    – Owld Nimmy (aka Terry Scott)

  • yasmin

    hi,

    i really really want to get a paper round somewhere in redhill cuz i leave there i’ve been looking for a job for ages i am 13 yrs old i am hoping to get a job on this site 🙂

    yasmin.