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I deliver [local paper] and [nat'l economic paper]. I've been mentally bracing myself for an increase in [nat'l economic paper] since I deliver to a student-dense neighborhood and the economics students are often required to have a subscription, and school starts soon. Usually I go from a handful over break to a couple dozen, sometimes with a dozen new starts in one day, which I dislike because that's a lot of new addresses to shove in my brain for one day when I'm awake, let alone at 4am when the caffeine still hasn't kicked in.
So you can imagine how many shades of brown my pants turned this morning when my number of [nat'l economic paper]'s went from 8 yesterday to 103 today.
The drop-site driver was even there trying to figure out WTF was going on! 95 new subscribers in one morning?!? I was about to cry!
...until I took a closer look at my paperwork and it dawned on me that it was 95 copies all for the nearby high school. It was a bulk drop.
Normally, the school district gets its own separate route/driver for [local paper] bulk orders at least, so I'm not sure if or how long [nat'l economic paper] will stay on my route. But this more than doubled my total for that route with both papers combined, and I get slightly more per paper with [nat'l economic paper] than [local paper], and it only takes me about 5 minutes to do the bulk drop at the school, so unless they take it away from me and give it to whoever normally does the school deliveries, this is going to mean a lot more $$$ for just a little more work! I went from sh*tting myself to salivating in no time flat (which actually sounds awful but I'm not going to bother to fix that wording).
So you can imagine how many shades of brown my pants turned this morning when my number of [nat'l economic paper]'s went from 8 yesterday to 103 today.
The drop-site driver was even there trying to figure out WTF was going on! 95 new subscribers in one morning?!? I was about to cry!
...until I took a closer look at my paperwork and it dawned on me that it was 95 copies all for the nearby high school. It was a bulk drop.
Normally, the school district gets its own separate route/driver for [local paper] bulk orders at least, so I'm not sure if or how long [nat'l economic paper] will stay on my route. But this more than doubled my total for that route with both papers combined, and I get slightly more per paper with [nat'l economic paper] than [local paper], and it only takes me about 5 minutes to do the bulk drop at the school, so unless they take it away from me and give it to whoever normally does the school deliveries, this is going to mean a lot more $$$ for just a little more work! I went from sh*tting myself to salivating in no time flat (which actually sounds awful but I'm not going to bother to fix that wording).
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