Not In The Flower Bed!! Rant

11 years ago

What is it with paper delivery people that they can't simply throw the paper in the very LARGE driveway but insist on making sure it lands in my flower beds!?

Called the local newspaper today and told them to take us off their "free" delivery on Wednesday as I'm tired of the drivers throwing the free paper in my flower beds where the flowers are just starting to grow nicely. This also happened with another paper and they were also informed if it happens again, they can take us off that list also.

I delivered papers as a substitute as a kid and was given specific instructions on where each subscribers papers went. Heaven help me (or my friend) if we didn't get it right. Flower beds were an especially big NO-NO.

They drive so I know it can't be that difficult to make sure they get it in the driveway, or at least close by without hitting the beds. Also, one of the neighbors informed me they drive way too fast while delivering them. He thinks it's because it's early morning and they know no-one is out.

End of rant, thank you.

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greenshoekitty
11 years ago
I get you, I stopped a paper because for 3 years 90% of the time it was placed on the lawn next door.
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
11 years ago
see if you can get a newspaper tube or box put on your mail box post. They usually provide them free and often will install them on a post beside your mailbox. We had one on ours at one of our houses but the guy kept throwing it in our drive or yard and the neighbors dog just sat around waiting for it like a game and ran over and immediately grabbed it ran under a bush in their yard and shredded it. I caught it in the act. Went over to the neighbors and asked them to come out side and see something. The bush was piled high with my shredded newspapers.
I told the newpaper company that if they could not figure out how to use the newspaper box that plainly had their name on it beside my mailbox then I no longer needed the news paper. Guess what they figured it out.
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Most villages and towns have anti-littering codes. Call the village hall and log a complaint against the firm for littering in front of your house. If an inspector comes out, make sure that some of the unwanted papers are laying at the curb and in the gutter. Debris that has potential to wash down and clog street drains does get attention.
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I asked the agent to make sure the deliverer threw the paper about ten feet further on, where there was a nice big bit of lawn for it to land on, to no avail. I found out why as we are on a corner: the deliverer was tossing the paper at our house as he rounded the corner and so didn't go near the lawn part of our yard. So, I gave up and now I read the paper online.
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11 years ago
My parents always got the paper and there was a white box that the paper people put inside it. Loved the ones that when raining would put it in plastic bag and elastic band and kept it nice and dry.

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