A Day in the Life of a Newspaper Delivery Man

Forget about vacation days.

PRI

Thanks to a recent and heavily reported vendor switchover, Brazilian immigrant Alvaro DaSilva no longer hurls copies of The Boston Globe out the window of his SUV early each morning. But the Newton, Ma., resident continues to faithfully deliver copies locally of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and The Boston Herald.

PRI reporter Jeb Sharp’s profile of DaSilva is both a clever leveraging of the Globe delivery fiasco and a reminder that this kind of work is not for the faint of heart.

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WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.

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