Step 1 : Introduction to the question "10. Why do you get a free copy delivered when they often cost money in the newsagents?"
...1. newspapers like to give freebies 2. the newspapers want to get the local news to local people as fast as possible 3. it keeps people employed 4. to ensure a wide enough circulation to obtain the money paid for advertising in the newspaper One place where deliverers have no trouble in delivering a newspaper free is at a newsagent. In fact the newsagents may well want about ten copies of the newspaper for all the flats over their shop and all their relatives as well. Some deliverers shy off the exceptional hospitality of such premises.