Paper Trail

摘要

Ask A Former Paperboyrnabout the job, and you're likely to summon a misty-eyed recollection of predawn bundling and knee-high snow. "It meant a lot to me as a kid," Today host Matt Lauer said of his first job. "Today it's basically something that doesn't exist." With physical newspapers making their way to an ever shrinking number of customers, paperboys (and girls) have become an endangered species. In 2008 they made up just 13% of newspaper deliverers, down from nearly 70% in 1990. One reason for their demise: as cost-conscious newspaper companies shifted to large distribution centers, their carriers had to deliver bigger bundles of papers across a wider area.