Other roles & positions

A depot holder is responsible for coordinating newspaper deliveries in a specific area. 

Every morning, the depot manager receives the newspapers from the carriers, counts them, and ensures they are delivered to the right distributors on time. 

Additionally, the depot holder is the point of contact for the distributors, manages the team, and assists with recruiting new distributors when necessary. In some cases, the depot holder may also be required to deliver newspapers themselves. 

A distributor supports the depot holder by preparing the newspaper routes. The distributor receives the newspapers around 4:00 AM, counts them for each route, and organizes the newspapers with any additional inserts for the deliverers. 

This role offers a lot of freedom and is easily combined with other work or hobbies. The distributor works six days a week, from Monday to Saturday, and the tasks take about one hour per day.

Throughout the Netherlands, there are outlying areas where deliveries cannot be made on foot or by bicycle. 

In these areas, newspapers are delivered by car, by a Carrier. A Carrier may also have the task of delivering the newspapers to the depots before the deliverers come to pick them up.