Six days a week, 75-year-old John Monahan can be found delivering newspapers to Dubbo residents and businesses throughout the CBD.
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It is a job Mr Monahan has undertaken for the past 36 years but on Friday, on the advice of his doctor, Mr Monahan delivered his last paper.
Steve Coles, who has worked alongside Mr Monahan at the Adams' Newsagency - formerly the Macquarie Street Newsagency - for almost 10 years said John is loved by everyone who knows him.
"John's a simple guy who loves doing what he does," Mr Coles said.
Despite hearing of Mr Monahan's retirement, his co-worker said he believed Mr Monahan would be in the job until he died, due to the love of what he does and the people who love him for it.
"Very few people have dropped off his run... they stay with John because they like him. He's loved by everybody and you can't keep him down."
Last year Mr Monahan was told to have six weeks off following eye surgery, but instead of taking the time off, Mr Coles said John was back to his paper route the next day, with only a pair of sunglasses to indicate anything was different.
Mr Monahan grew up at Cobar and was raised at Nyngan before moving to Bathurst.
He started at the newsagency under Joe Snare and remained delivering papers as it changed hands to Peter Snare, was sold to Ian and Kathryn Duncan and again after it changed ownership to Michael and Katrina Adams earlier this year.
Mr Monahan's first employer Joe Snare, who hired Mr Monahan in 1978, said John was a great asset to the business and the community.
"John is always pleasant, a dedicated Christian. He's a credit to his family and to Australia," Mr Snare said.
"If there were more people in Dubbo and in the world like John, the world would be a better place for us all. John's a credit to the human race."
Mr Coles said a lot of people are going to miss Mr Monahan, who is considered a living icon of Dubbo and has customers in almost every shop.
"I don't know what [the newsagents] are going to do because it will be impossible for anyone else to do John's job."