Every two weeks everyone on my block gets a bag full of coupons. It’s a bit annoying and certainly a waste of trees. I kick them right to the curb for recycling. One time I even tracked down the company and asked for them to stop delivering to building. They said, oh yeah sure, it may take a few weeks, but we’ll take you off the list. The coupons have never stopped.
Yesterday I was walking home and I passed two of the circular delivery employees…
At first I mistook them for the homeless guys who prowl for bottles. They were shabbily dressed and pushed two shopping carts full of the coupon bags. By the looks of the two, I could tell there was no way that these guys were ever going to check apartments against a “do not throw” list. You can opt-out of most other direct marketing efforts, but these guys just don’t give a damn. Unless I can think of some creative way of somehow make throwing trash in front of my apartment, they represent an unstoppable force. Maybe something involving faxing them copies of all the circulars I receive…
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Being the strong law enforcement guy that I am (with lots of friends and most importantly family on the force), I keep Uncle Leo on speed dial.
Remember littering is littering. There is always some young officer that is bucking for a promotion and needs a couple extra tickets written this month to make the next grade.
Also a car cruising the neighborhood in the wee hours of the morning stuffing mailboxes is always good for one of those “suspicious activities” telephone calls.
Of coarse you could hire all of the kids in the neighborhood to pickup the trash and then take it to your favorite recycling center.
I don’t mind these things, my home has a wood burning fireplace. Years ago a man that lived up the street from us collected them from everyone on the street–he had 15 parrots.
In several canadian cities, you can get an official “no shit” sticker to put on your mailbox, and any store who puts a flyer in your mailbox can be liable for a substantial fine.
@Jean Naimard:
That’s pretty cool — are the stickers in English and French? I’d love to put a sign on my mailbox with “no shit” in several languages.
Illegal dumping, maybe?
@girly: I have a can like that, damn bastards just kept putting the crap on my door. I had to make a sign in english and spanish and yell at them but they finally got the point and put all thier trash in the can. On trash day I just dump it in the recycling bid.
@WorkingOnYourInvoice:
Nothing at all. I was insinuating that Mr. Popken is part of the starbucks drinking elite of America, who is more annoyed by the trees being wasted than giving apparently homeless men jobs.