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PAPERBOY
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A paperboy is the general name for a person employed by a newspaper, a news agent or even an official postal service to deliver papers to the homes of subscribers, as assigned by streets and routes. Paperboys traditionally were and are still often portrayed on television and movies as a preteen boys, often on a bicycle.
History
The position of paperboy occupies a prominent place in the American folklore because it has long been the first paying job available to youngsters.
Despite that, the number of paperboys in the United States has declined greatly since the 1990s. This decline is due partly to the disappearance of afternoon newspapers, whose delivery times worked better for school-aged children than did those of morning papers, which usually must be delivered before 6 a.m. The numbers have also been affected by changing demographics, labour laws and concern about unescorted children, all of which have led many newspapers to switch to delivery by adults. Today, they are mainly used by weekly newspapers, which still tend to be delivered in the afternoons.
Other countries with a tradition of paper boys include Canada, Australia and the UK.
In fiction
For motion pictures with the word in the title, see the [IMDb]; for others in which they feature, see [1]
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