The injured man, who asked not to be identified, was full of praise for ODT driver John Hughes, who raised the alarm on Tuesday after noticing the previous day's newspaper had not been collected.
Mr Hughes said that was unusual.
"At about 4am the day before, I had seen the light on in the house and I thought he might have just got up to have a cup of tea. But then, the next night, when I went to drop the paper off again, the paper hadn't been taken in, and I was worried he had had a fall."
Aware the man in question lived alone and had previously had a hip replacement, he rang the police.
"Within 15 minutes they had rung me back to say he was [now] in hospital."
The man had no recollection of what had happened, and said he could have been lying unconscious for 24 hours.
He would like to thank Mr Hughes "very much".
It is not the first time Mr Hughes had come to the rescue during his 13-year career as a delivery driver.
"A couple of years ago, I was delivering the paper, and about 5am in the morning I noticed smoke coming out of a house."
He said he rang the Fire Service and knocked on the door to wake the occupants, who were unaware their house was on fire.
