Hello? Anyone reading this?

Looks like another institution of society is starting to go down the tubes. The days of being a kid and picking up a paper route to make some cash are quickly drying up. I personally enjoy sitting in the back yard as my coffee seeps steam into the cool morning sunrise while my news paper rustles in the early day's breeze... Guess I'm gonna have to head to the store and get it though cause these damn kids are too friggin lazy to bring it to me!

Stefan Wojciechowski, head of news and magazines at the NFRN, says while no exact figures are available, it is estimated anything up to a third of all independent newsagents have given up home delivery in the past five to seven years. There's competition from supermarkets and convenience stores, people are commuting such distances that they leave the house before delivery is possible, and newspaper sales themselves are in long term decline.But most of all an absence of paperboys is causing newsagents pain."Kids don't want to do paper rounds because of increasing pocket money and other ways of earning money," Mr Wojciechowski says.