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These are people that get up at 2:00 am to pick up their papers and deliver to you. Most of the time they do it because they need the money and it is quite often a part-time gig. The job doesn't pay well, especially with today's gas prices. Most of the time you pay the newspaper directly so you don't really have a relationship with your newspaper carrier, thus the reason to leave a card and an envelope. How else would you know who they are?
You have no idea if your paper was missed because of poor delivery, theft or some other issue. Apparently, the carrier didn't want it to happen again so starting delivering to your porch. That is VERY GOOD service - more so because you didn't request porch service.
Don't be a chump...give your carrier a tip. I give mine $20 every year and often send a basket of some sort. You give your pizza delivery person a nice tip and I'll bet you also pay a delivery charge so don't flake out here. And for those of you that were kid carriers and got a .25 tip each week, just multiply that by 52 weeks in your head...you were tipped $13 a year and didn't even drive a car. And that was back then.
Fudge on everything you can but don't hurt the little guy at the botttom trying to make a living. If you've got it, share a little!!
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