Paper round wage?

[powell11]

I have just been offered a paper round in my area (Bristol) by The Observer. I received an email saying its 3p for each paper and its 141 papers a week, which works out to be £4.23 a week. Personally, I thought that is a bit low but if there was a mistake in the email or something like 30p per paper it works out to be £42.30, which to me is way too much for a free paper :S

What am I likely to be paid? Or is it actually £4.23?

[cathfromsaron]

my nearby post office charges 20p per paper delivery! i don't think £4 odd could be right per week!

cath x

[Maydup]

Doesn't have to be at least minimum wage powell?

[vulcan]

perhaps the mistake is in the amount of papers per week,when I delivered it averaged about 80-90 a day.

[jon1968]

If they’re the free papers that every house gets pushed through the letterbox then that sounds about right? Wouldn’t take much more than half an hour, surely? If they’re papers individually addressed and each house is half a mile apart I’d question it!!

[factor-fiction]

^"Wouldn’t take much more than half an hour, surely?"

I would think the best you could do on a typical street is 2 houses a minute so that's 70 minutes.

Minimum wage varies by age. how old are you?