Hi gang, my son wants to start doing catalogue delivery around the neighbourhood to gain some money once a week. Happy to help my boy get started
What trolley or wagon would you recommend for the job? I was thinking something like a beach trolley but guessing the wheels are more for sand and not for pavement? Dont wanna break the bank either.
Cheers!
Best Trolley for Catalogue Delivery
monkeydo on 25/04/2023 - 23:35
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Surely his employer should be providing him this stuff. And surely any job worth doing is paid hourly so it wouldn't matter to him how he does it, it should only matter to the employer.
What about McDonald's? I seem to recall a 14 year old working at the store I worked at when I was younger. It sucks but not as bad as walking around with flyers for $3 an hour with a cart you paid for yourself.
Surely his employer should be providing him this stuff.
Why?
employer
That's why
I vaguely remember hearing about these type of jobs when I was a teen… decades ago - but it was based on an agreed total rate , not you tendering hours as a contractor… You work slower, you earn less per hour.
Catalogue delivery involves lots of different catalogues being given to 'you' (for want of a better word in this example).
You then bundle them together, and then deliver them.
You are paid cents per catalogue. And I meant CENTS as opposed per dollar.
It isn't paid by the hour.
And this is also why people get catalogues for a couple of weeks and then wait a couple of weeks with no catalogues before delivery starts again.
Yeah I know, surely I was being facetious.
Will he be doing rounds on a bicycle? Considered a cargo add-on to it?
If it's junk mail catalogues, you can drive them straight to nearest recycling facility. We don't want them.
My nephew delivered catalogues so I have some tips. Don't put them all in the recycling bin at once, it'll be too heavy for the truck to lift and you'll get a warning sticker on your bin. You need to spread them out over the weeks.
you can drive them straight to nearest recycling facility.
Then you won't get paid…
Many of these companies now track your deliveries using apps.
I've designed some of the flyers that get delivered through those companies. And I'll tell you even when my flyers are printed and given to these companies and they are paid to deliver them in my own postcode I never see them in my mailbox. They all say they track with GPS and this and that, but if the price per flyer is too good to be true then corners are going to be cut. I'm sure some or maybe most of them get delivered, but I know they skip houses and are hiring whatever derro teenager they can find willing to say they are willing to deliver. I've yet to see a delivery company that promises to actually video record someone dropping them off in every box, despite 360 degree time lapse GoPros only costing like $300 these days. Because delivering a flyer as cheaply per unit as they claim just isn't possible and even if it were trusting some derro to do it isn't going to happen.
What are you doing looking up flyer delivery companies anyway jv?
I never see them in my mailbox.
Do you have an 'Australia Post Only' sticker on your mailbox?
I haven't had a hardcopy catalogue delivered in ages. Isn't Aldi the only one that produces them but only available in-store?
Best Trolley for Catalogue Delivery
I find the woolies ones have better wheels compared to the Coles ones.
Discarded pram off FB or council collection
I delivered the local rag on a BMX with a milk crate hung on the front of the handlebars with two S hooks.
Flinging a bagged newspaper down a driveway is way quicker than having to slot into a letterbox, particularly downhill
.I delivered junk mail as a kid/teen. i.e ~10 years.
I used an old army havesack like this one.
i divided my junk mail stack into 2 or 3 (depending how many different catalogues there were) and then place them at strategic collection points.
sometimes I would prefold the junk mail at home (i.e. fold all , say 7, in to one) but usually I would have them organised in havesack and sort them as I go.
using a havesack means you have 2 hands to work with at all times.
a trolley leaves 1 hand to work with (mostly)
There has to be some way to adapt an electric scooter - local laws permitting
When I had a kid doing this, I'd drop a crate of mail in 3 spots so he could walk a loop then reload. Pick him up when he was done.
The employer really struggled to find staff, and he was always offered extra routes.
He didn't last long, a few months, because it was very low pay even for a young kid.
FWIW he regularly skipped about a 3rd of his run without repercussions and toward the end might have done even less. So I think the employer is motivated to overlook plenty of failed delivery so they can continue to charge their clients.
I was a bit torn, and told him it was unethical not to do the work he was paid for, but hey, it was junk mail. So I also overlooked the stack of catalogues in our recycling.Sounds like child labour
Something like this foldable crate is good because it packs away when not in use.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Nextin-Foldable-Plastic-Shopping-T…
Don’t even waste your time with flyer deliveries
Aldi good different
…and you get the dollar back when finished…