Is it true!?

[rolltide]

Did people pay for their newspaper by leaving pennies in their mailboxes about 50+ years ago? Someone told me that once long ago and I ALWAYS find at least a dozen pennies around mailboxes at older homes.

 

[Night Stalker]

People used to put change in their mailboxes to pay for postage, sometimes the mail person dropped a few coins, over the years, they piled up.

 

[lumbercamp]

46 years ago I delivered a morning newspaper and got paid 15 cents per week. I thought I was making a lot of money. One guy always tipped me 3 cents. I may have dropped a few pennies.

 

[Jeffro]

46 years ago I delivered a morning newspaper and got paid 15 cents per week. I thought I was making a lot of money. One guy always tipped me 3 cents. I may have dropped a few pennies.

Yes, its true. Rural areas can be quite lucrative.

 

[gold fish]

what the heck, it's worth a try !!

 

[Sandman]

Garrett's book, Sucessful Coin Hunting lists all these sites and many more. I found coins around the edges of roads where the old farm house of ours was. The new owners let me detect the old family property. When dad died, our mother buried many of his guns my sister said, but even though she dug the hole, she doesn't remember where it was.

Sandman