Grass is usually 2. Garbage seems to vary. I know my route has 2 regular guys and, on occasion, a third (I get up early and smoke outside). Of all of your service providers, the garbage guys usually have the highest rate of pay, at least they did in California and I'm assuming they do here. I do know the mail people have to bid for their postal stations and the lowest bid wins (they actually are sub-sub-contractors -- nice system for the guy who gets the bid from USPS and then bids it out). Not sure what the story is on the paper delivery, but I'm assuming they have to buy the newspapers, the bags, the gas and get up at ungodly hours to assemble and deliver. If you use a service like Daisy Maids to clean your home, they get about $7.35-$8.50 an hour. (If you have a housekeeper, you can easily figure out their hourly rate.) Sadly, our service workers really are grossly underpaid.
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Army/embassy brat - traveled too much to mention
Moved here from SF Bay Area (East Bay)
"There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein
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