Thursday , March 28 2024

We Are Fresno: Flyer Girl brings it home

A Clovis woman is putting a unique twist on home delivery. She goes by the name "flyer girl" and delivers thousands of flyers all over Fresno and Clovis each week.

She’s a blonde blur, roller blading from house to house, through entire neighborhoods, delivering precious cargo: flyers.

"It’s so much more fun to roller blade," Stephi Picard said.

Picard, a Barbie look-a-like with skates on her feet. The former barista started her business four years ago, by chance, passing out her own flyers.

"The neighbor across the street asked me to deliver flyers for his carpet cleaning business," Picard said.

Now, Picard delivers four to five days a week, five hours a day. 

"I get to focus on what I want to think about, and I listen to my Pandora radio," Picard said. "I just enjoy it."

Aaround $ 20 for either 100 flyers or door hangers, Picard says business is growing. Something Picard and her husband didn’t imagine when she first started.

"He thought, ‘Why is she wasting her time?’," Picard said. "But now he’s very proudof me."

Jon Erickson owns a local landscaping company. He says Flyer Girl gave him a call a few years ago after she found one of his flyers by a door.

"She goes, uh, well I found one of your flyers, on, when we were delivering, and it was in a pot, you know, next to the front door. And I went, ‘It was in a pot?’" Eriksen said.

Years later, he still works with Picard. Who even helped him simplify his flyer, Eriksen says, he gets six to seven calls each time she goes out. Saying he knows she’ll get the job done.

"You got to work with someone you trust and that’s definitely Steph, you know very honest, and very, very professional," Eriksen said.

Picard says the job is what she’s meant to do.

"That is a blessing, to get out and work," Picard said.

So if you find flyers on your doorstep, you may just see a blonde blur racing down your street. 

Megan Rupe, reporting.

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