The Lethbridge Herald pays by direct deposit, so I had to go to the bank this morning to get a deposit form filled out. This is new to me; in Quebec and BC the employers provide the forms or you can just give a void cheque. I then needed to go to the newspaper office, the post office, and Walmart.

The post office is right across from the bank. And the newspaper is a block away! Lethbridge has voracious parking metres, so it was nice to be able to park once and top up the metre as needed. Walmart is out of the way from home, though.

Jody had the bright idea of giving me last year’s phone book to keep in the car and it came in handy when it was time to go to the newspaper office: my GPS did not recognize “Lethbridge Herald.” I was able to find the address in the phone book, enter it in the GPS, and learn that I needed to get back out of the car and walk. 🙂

There were two reasons for going to the newspaper office; dropping off the deposit form and to clarify my routes for this week since I had a ton of flyers left over yesterday. Good thing I did because the circulation manager had goofed so I missed one yesterday. No big deal, I have two days to do both routes, so I’ll head out shortly and do the route this afternoon.

The three routes yesterday took an hour each and I was very grateful to have a little grocery buggy to lug with me. The routes are smartly laid out so you can do a circuit. I’d park the car at the beginning/end of the circuit, load the buggy to the brim, and add one bundle to my very cute canvas newspaper carrier’s bag (complete with orange safety tape; much nice than yellow! 😀 ). So, I never had to carry so much as to give me shoulder pain and I never had to double back to the car to get more flyers. I need to do all four again tomorrow and I think it will go faster now that I have a better idea of the most efficient way of doing the routes.

Between all the walking and stair climbing, this job is going to be an excellent workout and just the motivation I’ve been needing to get more exercise. It’s going to be quite the time commitment since next week I’ll move from four to six routes, but it’s not like I have much else to do! I think the circulation manager was very pleased that I was so eager to pick up that many routes, much less start right away since someone quit without notice!