Wasn’t it giving it to the newspaper pages to throw it randomly in front of the door? Wasn’t that a little rough?

So what’s the goal of this behavior, which has become a tradition?

In fact, the distribution of newspapers in the United States is a 19th century tradition.

In the first half of the 19th century, there were valuable changes in the fields of contact and transportation in this country. In particular, the arrival of telegrams and railways greatly accelerated the spread of knowledge with its general prestige.

In addition, the demographic structure of the region at these dates was changed at a great speed. The population spread to the West and the cities were crowded. These changes both increased the demand for newspapers and increased the production of newspapers.

In 1800, 200 different newspapers were published in the USA. After 60 years, this number increased to 3000. In addition, the new urban newspapers established in the 1830s and 1840s reached more than one, unprecedented circulation numbers like his wife, and this interest continued exponentially.

In this case, the faster and the cheapest way for the distribution of newspapers began to be sought.

In a short period of time, a concept called “Paper Boy” (newspaper distributor) emerged. Before going to school in the morning or after arriving in the evening, young people working in the evening, often began to distribute newspapers to houses and offices by bike.

These young people had to do this task given to them in the golden age of the printed newspapers. Because there were too many neighborhoods and households to leave the newspapers. For this reason, young people found the camel in front of the houses.

Afterwards, it became a tradition to launch the newspapers superficially for many years.

So why didn’t the newspapers put in mailboxes?

Because in the United States, mailboxes were regulated by federal laws. In other words, it could only be used by Official Postal Services for USPS. In addition, at that time, newspaper companies were not in a position to pay for postal services. For this reason, mailboxes could not be used for newspaper distribution.

Thus, this special delivery procedure was developed. Of course, with the spread of the internet, this tradition began to disappear in a unregistered state. Unfortunately, paper newspapers were replaced by online publications.

But again in many states of the United States, it is still possible to see the ritual this morning. In fact, the newspaper standing in front of the door is a symbol of the past.

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