New Age Distribution Agency

This place uses people in the worst way. The owner hires people as general contractors at a flat rate of pay, say $ 700 every 2 weeks — around $ 50 a day. What she doesn’t tell u is that u have to pay for plastic bags and rubber bands for the papers you will be delivering out of your $ 700 — probably around $ 40-​$ 50 every 2 weeks. Next there are complaints that you are charged for. A person makes maybe 12 cents for every paper they deliver. Now if a customer calls in and says they were dissatisfied with their service for some reason, this lady charges her delivery people $ 3 each time. So if someone gets say 5 complaints in one day for whatever reason, their pay would be reduced $ 15 for that one day. Then there’s the gas to do the route. Anyways… By the time your check comes (minus supply expenses and complaint penalties) you are pretty much just reimbursing yourself for the gas you have used in that pay period, if that!
Isn’t a job supposed to make you money??? This place ends up costing you money to work there. How is any of this legal??? Doesn’t this lady have a conscious?

A friend was recently working there. They distribute all these big time newspapers like l. a Times, Orange County Registers, Daily Tribune, Daily Bulletin, Wall Street Journal.
The warehouse where these are distributed are in appalling conditions and the workers Have to, pay for the packaging/​rubber bands so that the clients papers are delivered in mint condition. That doesn’t even make sense to me. These are big time newspaper company’s they can afford to supply the packaging. Why should the workers pay for the packaging!!! Overall I feel the company pushes workers to, their limit at absolute minimum wage and then charges them for the newspapers packaging.