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Media Delivery
Newspapers delivered over the last meters by throwing, a practice similar in the US.
In the UK newspapers are mostly delivered directly into a home mail box. Why the difference in delivery styles between these cultures? Factors include: the risk of theft; the perceived value of the papers; the size of properties and the location of the mail box on the property; whether gates are locked; the size of mail boxes; the size of papers; a culture of putting other things in the mail box? The risk of being rained on does not appear to be a factor - Seattle probably gets a similar amount of rain to many parts of the UK.
This gentleman managed to throw the paper into a tree. Is throwing efficient? For whom?
Writing from Connaught Place | April 4, 2006 | Permalink
Comments
having grown up in california and substituted for a local boy on his 'paper route' a few times, I must say that there is certain degree of joy and satisfaction in hurling those bundles at the houses. a highly expressive before-the-city-wakes-up activity :)
Posted by: carolyn at April 7, 2006 12:13 AM
Also a paperboy growing up, and learned that in New York it is illegal to deliver a newspaper into a mailbox. Federal law prohibits it. But some people do install a second box for the paper.
Posted by: Victor at April 7, 2006 6:09 AM