The Olympian

We have been doing early morning paper routes off and on (more on than off) for the past 8 years. Every kind of route that there is at the Olympian we have done. Right now we have 3 different routes. The last few years, the main route we have been doing is the bundle haul.

In a bundle haul we go down to the Olympian get our papers, lots of bundles, for other carriers and take it down to a storage unit for carriers to pick up. For the last few years we have shared this w/ 4 different people so we don't have to do it every day. I do the bundle haul every Mon.,/Tues. and every other Wed. and every other Sunday. Ray does it every other Sat. This means I get up at 1:40 AM and go down to the Olympian and I'm home around 3 AM.

Ray does a home delivery rt. that we share witht the same person. (So he does the same schedule) He gets up at 4:30ish and does that, comes home and goes to the olympian and gets another little route. But that route is delivered to his work at the capitol and doesn't take too long. That route is a M-F route.

There have been changes at the olympian this past year when a new company bought them and now they are combined w/ the Tacoma News Tribune. We have been hearing rumors for a while, but this past week we got notice that we won't have the bundle haul after November 5th. We are mostly happy and a little sad about this. More sleep! yeah! Less money, but more sleep, more sleep, more sleep!!!! Yeah! No more Saturday insert run! We have always been blessed (we have payed our tithing) and I'm sure we will be now, too!!