Brother, sister duo deliver final papers

A pair of long-tenured news carriers at the Journal-Tribune will be making their final deliveries today.

Brother and sister duo Kage Moss and Cecillia Archer have delivered papers for over 10 years. During that time, the pair developed strong relationships with newspaper customers.

“There were a couple of times when we would just help out some of our customers like bringing back their trashcans when they needed it…bringing in groceries for them and just helping them,” Archer said. “We just got really close with a lot of them.”
Archer, who started working as a carrier when she was just six-years-old alongside her older brother, is now about to turn 18-years-old. Despite the nostalgic stereotype of a paperboy/girl on a bicycle throwing papers into mailboxes, Archer said most of the delivering was done in a car or on foot – especially with the amount of papers to deliver.

Archer and her older brother Moss have large delivery routes that see over a hundred newspapers sent out, but the actual total is even bigger between the two of them.

“It depends on if you’re counting me helping out my brother because we help each other out,” she said. “I think right now we have seven routes together.”

Archer graduated from high school early, where she is planning to go to college and hopefully play soccer. Moss is engaged and moving out of the state to pursue future plans. Archer said the part she will miss the most about the job is meeting customers and not being able to see them anymore.

“A lot of our customers that we have right now, they watched us grow up from the little kids we were,” she said. “They’re very wonderful people and I think that was one of the hardest decisions.”