A person who is confident in his/her physical strength. A person who has a strong sense of responsibility. A person who has a good memory and is attentive.

Newspaper delivery workers deliver newspapers published by newspaper companies to customers' homes and workplaces. More than 90% of Japan's newspapers are delivered directly by newspaper delivery staff. In the case of delivery workers for newspapers that publish morning and evening editions, the morning delivery work begins still late at night. Delivery workers go to work at the sales office around 4:00 a.m. to unload the newspapers that arrive by truck from the newspaper company. They then insert the "inserts" they prepared the day before into the newspaper and wrap the newspaper in plastic to prevent it from getting wet on rainy days. The bundles of newspapers are then loaded onto motorcycles or bicycles and transported. A bundle of newspapers can weigh as much as 50 kg, so the driver must have a good sense of balance. In most cases, the route is set so that delivery begins around 4:30 a.m. and ends at 6:00 a.m. The evening editions are delivered at 3:00 p.m., and the evening editions are delivered at 4:00 p.m. For evening newspapers, delivery begins around 3:30 p.m. and ends at 5:00 p.m. The job requires a sense of responsibility to deliver newspapers to their destinations on time, physical strength to make deliveries even on rainy or snowy days, a good memory to remember the delivery routes, and the ability to be attentive to customers by placing newspapers where they want them. In addition to delivery, the job also involves sales work, such as finding new customers and collecting money from them.

No special educational background or qualifications are required to become a newspaper delivery person. However, if you want to use a motorcycle for delivery, you must have a "motorized bicycle license" (moped license), which can be obtained from the age of 16. If you want to become a newspaper delivery person, you can either get a full-time job at a newsstand or be hired by a newsstand as a part-timer or part-time worker. Generally, the minimum age for part-time work is 16, but newspaper delivery is an exception: junior high school students aged 13 or older can work part-time with the consent and permission of their parents, junior high school, or the Labor Standards Inspection Office. However, those under 16 years of age are not allowed to work between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. In urban areas, some students receive financial help in the form of "scholarships" from newspaper companies for working as a newspaper delivery person, and attend preparatory schools, universities, junior colleges, and vocational schools while working. Incidentally, some scholarship programs allow students to pay back the money borrowed as a scholarship while working after graduation. However, in the case of the newspaper scholarship system, the student pays back the money from the salary earned from delivering newspapers while in school, so there is no need to pay back the money after graduation. In addition, some newsstands offer private dormitories in apartments or condominiums for delivery workers, regardless of whether they are full-, part-time, or part-time employees.

Newspaper companies and newsstands are completely different companies, even though they handle the same newspapers. A newsstand is a store that purchases newspapers, which are the products of the newspaper company, and sells them to customers. The difference between the purchase price of the newspaper and the selling price of the newspaper to the customer is the profit. If you want to manage such a newsstand by yourself in the future, try to get a job as a store manager candidate. While learning everything you need to know about running and operating a newsstand, you will build a network of personal connections, which are the connections between people. The most common way to open a newsstand is to buy the rights to an existing newsstand and take over its operations. It is important to have a broad network of contacts in order to obtain information such as, "There is a person who wants to sell the rights," or to get a recommendation as to who is the right person to buy the rights. Of course, you will also need funds to open the business, so make sure to save them up during your training as a prospective manager.

Today, with the latest news available on television and the Internet, the circulation of newspapers is lower than ever before. However, newspapers, which do not have a power source or switch, have the advantage of providing easy access to a large number of articles that explain information in a wide range of genres in an easy-to-understand manner. The demand for newspaper deliverymen to deliver them will not disappear in the future. Newspaper deliverymen are also expected to play a role in community safety. For example, newspaper deliverymen can be used to "watch over the elderly who live alone" by delivering newspapers at a fixed time every day, or to "prevent crime" by riding motorcycles and bicycles through narrow alleys from late at night to early in the morning, when crimes are more likely to occur. Newspaper delivery bikes equipped with drive recorders may be used as "mobile security cameras.

The average annual income is 3.23-3.62 million yen. Wages can be paid on a monthly basis with a fixed amount each month, on an hourly basis for the time spent on the job, or on a commission basis for the number of deliveries made.

One day off per week. However, some dealers may not have a day off. In addition, newspapers are closed 12 times a year, and delivery staff take turns taking a day off.

Newsstands and the areas they are responsible for delivering.

It's a chart that shows at a glance the main routes to get a job as a newspaper carrier!