The advert delivery job in My Winter Car is one of the most reliable early-game income sources. It is low risk, scales with how thorough you are, and pays straight into your bank account under the description Jakopalkkio. The main friction comes from activating the work correctly and understanding how deliveries and payouts actually work.
How to activate the advert delivery job
Step 1: Go to the PSK gas station rest area on the main road near Peräjärvi. Walk through the automatic doors into the building and look at the wall with the notice board. Find the yellow advert delivery poster and read it to see the job’s phone number (typically written as 08-231206 or 08 231 206).
Step 2: Write the number down exactly as shown on your save. The exact digits can vary between saves, so do not rely on memory from another playthrough.
Step 3: Go to any usable landline phone. Common options are the phone in your parents’ house in Kesselinperä, the one in your Peräjärvi apartment, or another indoor phone you have access to.
Step 4: Pick up the handset and use the numeric keypad to dial the full 8‑digit number. Use the numpad keys, not the top number row on your keyboard. You should hear a short confirmation beep after each valid key press.
Step 5: After entering the number, confirm the call (for example, by pressing the call/enter key shown in the prompt). Let the call ring and connect. Do not hang up at any point.
Step 6: Wait while the NPC on the other end explains the job. The work only activates if you stay on the line until the caller finishes speaking and ends the call themselves. If you hang up early, the job does not start, and you must call again.
Once the call ends from the other side, the advert delivery job is linked to your bank account. That account link is what enables weekly flyers to spawn and your Jakopalkkio transaction to appear after deliveries.
When and where the adverts spawn
After activation, a stack of adverts appears at the start of an in‑game work week. For most saves, this is around midweek (commonly Wednesday or Thursday morning) at the entrance to your Peräjärvi home or apartment. The stack looks like a pile of flyers or newspapers on the doorstep.
If no adverts show up at the door during the week after you have correctly completed the phone call, treat it as a failed activation or a bug. Redial the job number from a phone, again waiting for the NPC to hang up, then fully close and restart the game before checking your doorstep on the next workday morning.
How advert delivery actually works
The task is simple: you take individual sheets from the advert stack and place one in each valid mailbox around the region. Every successful delivery increases your eventual pay; missing locations just reduces your payout, but it does not usually cancel the job.
Step 1: Walk to the advert pile at your doorstep. Interact with it and use the right mouse button to pull a single flyer sheet into your hand. The pile remains until you have removed all of its sheets.
Step 2: Load yourself and your vehicle with enough flyers for a full route. You can carry multiple sheets in sequence by repeatedly pulling one from the pile before heading out.
Step 3: Drive the road network and stop at mailboxes in front of houses and at other marked locations. In most cases, the mailbox is on a post near the driveway, clearly visible from the road.
Step 4: When you are close enough, interact with the mailbox while holding a flyer to drop the advert in. The sheet disappears from your hand and counts as one successful delivery.
Step 5: Repeat this for every mailbox you intend to cover. If you run out of flyers, go back home to pull more sheets from the pile and continue the loop.
The exact earnings scale with the number of mailboxes you hit in one work period. Skipping several locations reduces the final Jakopalkkio amount but does not block payment entirely as long as at least some deliveries are registered.
Advert delivery mailbox locations (overview)
The world currently has 27 mailboxes that accept adverts. Hitting all of them once per work week maximizes your payout. The locations are spread between rural homesteads, farms, town housing, and a cemetery.
The mailbox set includes:
- Two mailboxes by the strawberry field.
- One at grandma’s house.
- One near Kessleinford, close to the player’s family home.
- One at the house near the southeastern Loponien crossroad, also known as the southernmost septic tank address.
- One at Liveloin’s house.
- One at Jokke’s old house at Fern Lop.
- One at Venti’s house.
- One at the house southwest of the radio mast.
- One at Tovaka’s farm.
- One at Timo’s house.
- One at the house south of the Peräjärvi school, which also acts as a septic tank destination.
- Six mailboxes in the Peräjärvi apartment area. These include your building but not your own personal mailbox.
- Five mailboxes clustered at the graveyard.
Covering all of these on a single loop typically requires a full in‑game day, a fueled and maintained vehicle, and some basic route planning so you are not backtracking across the map.
How and when you get paid (Jakopalkkio)
Advert delivery is an account-based job. There is no cash pickup or face‑to‑face handoff. All income arrives through your bank as a scheduled transfer.
Step 1: After you finish your deliveries for the week, continue your in‑game days normally. The payment does not arrive immediately when the last mailbox is filled.
Step 2: On the next in‑game weekday after your run (many players see this on Friday), go to any ATM such as the one inside the PSK station. Insert your card and open your transaction history.
Step 3: Look through recent entries for a line labelled Jakopalkkio. This is the advert delivery payment. The amount reflects how many mailboxes were successfully served during that work week.
Step 4: If you prefer cash, withdraw part or all of your balance from the ATM. The job itself never pays out as loose bills; everything passes through the account first.
If no Jakopalkkio line appears after a work week where you are confident you delivered flyers, there are a few common causes. The most frequent is an incomplete or failed activation call. In that case, repeat the phone activation process, wait for the NPC to hang up, then fully restart the game before attempting another work week. Using the ATM at PSK specifically can also help refresh the visible transaction list.
Common mistakes that block adverts or payment
Several small errors can prevent adverts from appearing or delay your payment. These are the main problems to avoid.
Hanging up the phone early. Ending the activation call yourself at any point means the job never actually starts. There is no partial progress here: you must hear the NPC’s full explanation and wait for them to terminate the call.
Mistyping the job number. The advert poster number looks simple, but entering a wrong digit or using the wrong key row will silently fail. Use the numpad, watch for the confirmation beeps, and double‑check that the number you dial matches the poster exactly for your save.
Expecting adverts the same day you call. The flyer pile only appears at the beginning of a work period, not immediately after activation. If you have just completed the call, play through some time and check again at the door on the next in‑game work morning.
Ignoring missing adverts. If several days pass in‑game after a clean activation call and you still do not see adverts on your doorstep, restart the activation. Dial the number again, let the NPC hang up, then close and reopen the game. Treat a missing flyer pile as a signal that the job is off.
Checking the ATM too early. Payment only lands on the scheduled weekday. Looking for Jakopalkkio immediately after finishing your route will show nothing and can be misleading. Wait until the correct in‑game day before deciding something is broken.
Assuming all mailboxes are still from My Summer Car. Some legacy mailbox positions are gone. Only the current My Winter Car mailboxes listed earlier accept adverts. Driving to old My Summer Car locations that no longer exist wastes time and fuel without increasing your payout.
Once the activation call is done correctly and you understand where the active mailboxes are, the advert delivery job becomes a predictable loop: start of the week flyers, one long drive touching as many boxes as possible, then a Jakopalkkio hit to your account near the end of the work week. It is not the most glamorous work in My Winter Car, but it is one of the safest ways to stabilize your finances early on.
