I did the obligatory paper round, dreaded Sundays and all the supplements because it would necessitate a return to the shop halfway through the round to pick up the second sack in order to complete it. The paper job was obviously 7 days a week, not just Saturdays.
I moved to a milk round at the age of 14, a typical Saturday started with a 4 a.m. pick-up, 4.30 start and 10.30 finish.
Children these days really do not know how lucky they are. I saw something on here recently about the obesity epidemic.
It starts at a young age with a sedentary lifestyle, or certainly seems so in the last thirty years or so.