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’ve called all the numbers on those fliers. They’ve all taken my information down and not a single damn thing has changed. I still get all that trash. It’s bad for the environment.
I have an extremely paranoid take on this.
I think – like in Italy where the Carabonieri once put a little ticket in everyones doorframe at night to check whether anyone had been in or out during curfew – some of these flyers are actually put there for the sole purpose of seeing if anyone is home.
I have frequently thought someone was at the door at the top of my stoop only to find a stranger intently peering inside. Looking inside isn’t exactly a necessary part of distributing little cards for Evelyn Car Service.
Earlier this year I questioned a jittery young man who stood on my block for several hours, scanning the comings and goings in the morning while commenting non stop into a cell phone. I continued to watch as he was picked up by a van and moved off. I’d seen a similar van on the block earlier that week as several men converged on it carrying black garbage bags, hopped in and sped off.
If any of you remember, not long ago, a person on Long Island was arrested for master minding break-ins commited with illegal day workers picked up on some strip where they congregated looking for work. He’d have already scoped out neighbohoods he planned to rob, then had the illegals do the dirty work.
I honestly believe that flyers are more than an ecological disaster, they are masking crime.
Those plastic sleeves are not recyclable in NYC. You are contaminating your recycling. This inability to follow simple directions — we all get those colorful NYC recycling brochures in the mail — is the reason that the city must resort all the trash before it can be recycled. It’s a huge an utterly unnecessary expense.
I always take it from someone’s stoop every week, since I live in a condo and don’t get these. I clip the coupons every week and also plan my weekly food shopping at Pathmark.
“I guess you folk don’t need some coupons. Just pick it up and throw it in the garbage..
Soon you’ll have a sign “No Poor People allowed””
what a stupid comment. maybe people simply don’t shop at that store. “just throw them out”, that’s great for the environment.
think before typing.
Come on now. Don’t you know that white people get real uppity when you mention money and the have and have nots.
The flyers have been around for years and a bunch of new residents complaining isn’t going to make them go away.
There’s normally a couple in my front yard when I arrive home. I usually open the plastic sleeve, put the “paper” in with my other recyclable newspapers, and put the plastic sleeve in the “plastic, bottles and cans” recyclables.
“I guess you folk don’t need some coupons. Just pick it up and throw it in the garbage..
Soon you’ll have a sign “No Poor People allowed””
what a stupid comment. maybe people simply don’t shop at that store. “just throw them out”, that’s great for the environment.
think before typing.
If you’re posting on this site, then that means you’re probably sitting in front a computer. There’s this program call MS Word(NotePad will work also). Just type “NO FLYERS” in big 36 point font and press the print button. Voila instant sign.
Please anybody, where do we get decent sign?
This info would be so helpfull.