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Practice early: Noah also likes to look at the local newspaper, which his mother Donata Neubauer publishes six times a week. © private
Newspaper delivery person Donata Neubauer reveals how she gets out of bed. Things can get a little more difficult, especially in the first few days after the time change.
Erding
– When the readers are looking forward to their local newspaper at the breakfast table, the deliverers have already had a few hours of work behind them. Getting up early is just part of the job. On Easter Sunday the alarm clock rings an hour earlier. The days after the changeover to summer time are a little harder. How do you even get fit? Is the first coffee available at the crack of dawn?
Donata Neubauer has been a delivery person with heart and soul for 23 years. The 44-year-old knows all the tricks to be perfectly fit. At 12:30 a.m. the night is over for the mother of two. Turning around again or even oversleeping is not an option with her. “I am a typical early riser. “I don’t need much, but I do need one thing: several alarm clocks,” she reveals.
For Neubauer, there is no magic formula for getting out of bed early. “Everyone has to know how their body feels, that’s the most important thing,” she is convinced. At 1 a.m. she sets off from Moosburg in the Freising district to the pick-up point. After first delivering the newspaper in her hometown, she heads to the Erding district.
Neubauer is there where she is needed. And that is currently in Gaden, on Siglfinger Straße and partly in the Freisinger settlement in Erding as well as in parts of Siglfing, Altenerding and Aufhausen/Bergham. The 44-year-old has a full program until 6 a.m. “Representatively, I’m almost everywhere. I’ve already held a competition in Zorneding.”
Concentration is important. On the one hand, there is driving. And then there are always changes to the subscriptions: breaks due to vacation, a new address, a trial subscription. This is all noted on the delivery notes.
When mom is at work, dad Dirk looks after son Noah. For the five-year-old, it's a lot of fun that mom "has" to go to bed with him. After work is done, Neubauer has to be home by 6:45 a.m. at the latest to relieve her partner, who then drives to work.
Then she also enjoys lying down and switching off a little. And only then is there the first coffee. “You also need these breaks. But I have to show respect to everyone who goes to work afterwards,” said Neubauer.
Stefan Obesser also knows how to pitch in when there's a fire and deliver newspapers. “It’s not a normal office job. I have my cell phone with me 24/7. And quick action is often required,” says the managing director of the ZVE newspaper distributor in Erding. If someone gets sick, a replacement must be found.
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If you have any problems, there is also a night service that starts work at 4:15 a.m. and can always be reached by phone. Because the local newspaper is published at this time. But if there really isn't anyone who can take on a tour at short notice, the boss himself has already delivered the newspaper. “But I need an extra coffee at this time,” he reveals.
Otherwise, the local newspaper is published six times a week by pensioners, young people who want to earn money on the side, or motivated people like Donata Neubauer, who is passionate about her job. By the way, reinforcements are always welcome. And not to be despised: you are your own boss. Nobody sees a yawn.