Shoo, Flyers, Don't Bother Me
What’s more annoying than coming home to find your doorstep littered with plastic-encased circulars that are of absolutely no value to you and more or less only create a crapload of waste? Not much. It also gets Planet PLG’s goat: With a sign on every block announcing that the entire neighborhood is zoned for one…
What’s more annoying than coming home to find your doorstep littered with plastic-encased circulars that are of absolutely no value to you and more or less only create a crapload of waste? Not much. It also gets Planet PLG’s goat: With a sign on every block announcing that the entire neighborhood is zoned for one family houses only you’d think someone would have figured out that there’s no need for three or four dropoffs per residence.” (This what they mean by circular logic? It’s not just a PLG problem, either.) The blog notes that a bill passed last month allows you to stop the circular onslaught by posting a sign on your residence saying the advertisements aren’t welcome. If distributors violate your wishes, they’re looking at a $250 to $1,000 fine. You can also call up the individual companies behind the circulars to get ‘em to stop the madness.
Ugly Circulars, Be Gone! The Magic of Micro-Activism [Planet PLG]
“I always take it from someone’s stoop every week, since I live in a condo and don’t get these.”
I do the same since they sometimes miss my block! I love these ads since I get all the circulars in one handy package. I get to see who has cereal the cheapest this week. These ads are a real money saver.
I think every commercial enterprise creating flyers for distribution – business cards, menus, coupon flyers, those wierd pizza delivery things they put on the doorknobs (who needs chain pizza HERE?) should be licensed with large fees going directly to the sanitation department. If flyers of a particular vendor are discovered loose on the street, THEIR license should be examined and they should be fined by NYC and forced to pay for commercial sweeping for the area found to be in violation.
How’s that? A new beaurocracy in NYC – we need revenue! I have noted in the past that Sanitation Cops have guns (why?). Lets give them a real reason to carry them ; )
Now lets get to work on banning that pesky chewing gum that spots every horzontal surface…
The flyers are a nuisance and have been the reason I have been ticketed by sanitation (when I neglected to remove them from bottom of my garbage can before putting the garbage bag in the can for collection – UGH!)
I am willing to accept:
A) the general annoyance-I never use them, they are advertising products I do not buy and obviously not many other people are buying either, or they would not be pushing them!
B) That they are a fact of this homeowner’s life in the big city
C) I will have to sort them for collection or face the possible penalty
HOWEVER, I AM NOT WILLING TO ACCEPT THE LIABILITY FOR THE STUPIDITY OF OTHERS. They can leave that damned things – just not on my stairs!!! That is a real hazard and liability to homeowners. I nearly slipped on my steps one a.m. because they had been left (plastic bag of course) on my stairs and I did not see it on the lower steps as I left the building. When you are entering a building that is no problem. But if they are distributed on the stairs and people exit the building, depending on the circumstances, there is a great chance that you will not see them. Whose fault is that! Never mind it does not matter; because it is the owner who’s insurance company will be paying!
The signs should be multilingual.
We have one doorbell on our house and STILL get four to SIX of those Kohl’s plastic sheathed circular pacs (each is as thick as a Monday NYT on occassion!). Wonderful if you’ve been away for the weekend or away, G-d forbid, on vacation or on business! My next door neighbor who is retired used to get rid of them because she needed the plastic bags for her doggie walks. She was kind enough to do away with the circulars and generally keep a watch on the stoop litter when I was away but alas, she has moved to another house in the nabe.
I curse when I come home to wads of soppy, wet paper, etc. on a rainy day AND really curse when I have to process all this junk back into the waste stream periodically. Such a nuisance! I try to recycle the paper and dump the plastic and it’s a pain in the you-know-what. Plus, it’s all usually dirty and gritty and triggers asthma. Feh!
Thanks for opening a discussion on this!
JC Penny and Sears seem to like my block.
What’s more annoying than coming home to find your doorstep littered with plastic-encased circulars that are of absolutely no value to you and more or less only create a crapload of waste?
So many things.
Maybe you’d better call the police and report your suspicions, 1:52. You could be preventing a flyer-fueled crime right now!
Thanks, 1:29. I won’t put the sleeves in the recycling anymore.
What sort of sign is required? Is there a standard sign that is suggested by the regulation?