[Orange Underpant...]

It's such a waste. It's been raining so much that the papers are too soggy and/or paper mached to read. Not that I read them anyway - we have a 'no junk mail' sticker on our box but the lazy sods are throwing the papers out of their car window, they have no hope of reading the sign. Half of the papers seem to end up on the actual road... surely this is littering...

[~Elphaba~]

If they are newspapers, which you have ordered, how do you propose they deliver them? It's usually done at 2am, and they have about a thousand to do. It has to be done from the car. It's hard to find people prepared to do the job, and you won't find anyone who will deliver to 1,000 homes, usually over a 100km radius, on foot, at 2am.

ETA: Or are you talking about free papers, like the Chronicle etc?

This post has been edited by ~Elphaba~: 24/02/2013, 06:05 PM

[luke's mummu]

You can ring the paper and ask for the distributor to be informed you don't want any delivered to your house, ever.

However, it's a VERY low-paid job (I did it for several years), so if one occasionally comes your way after your phone call, I wouldn't make a fuss.

[kerri76]

This annoys me too. Our street looks like its made out of paper mache at the moment. I've called the local paper to complain about it before and they have assured me they have to be placed on a persons property or in the letter box, and is classed as littering otherwise... Hasn't stopped them unfortunately

[Orange Underpant...]

If I had ordered them I'd still be unimpressed with them landing on the road, but no, these are free local papers.

I'm sure it is a low paid job.. I guess my beef should be with the papers themselves, rather than the people delivering them.

Think I'll call the papers in question (about 4 or 5 of them) and tell them (politely) to stick it up their jacksy.

[~chiquita~]

This annoys me too OP. They get put straight into the bin along with the alarming amount of junk mail that gets tossed somewhere towards my home from a moving car.

[cheekymonkeysmum]

Happens heare to though they are always in plastic bags so not to wet the only things that bothers me about them is they are delivered at around 2am and make a huge noise when they land on our front lawn. And since we live in a block of 3 Villas/units we always get about 6 or more at any time any person can tell there are only 3 units here.

[CrazySingleMum]

They used to deliver our local paper into the mailbox. Now they wrap it in plastic and toss them somewhere on the front lawn (often in the drainage ditch at the front). Where they get wet and soggy, despite the plastic.

I used to read the local paper, I don't any more.

[*LucyE*]

I hate it too.

I don't read it. I don't want it. I really don't like having to make a special trip down our driveway to pick it up and walk back to put it in the bin.

[Swarley]

We used to do this a couple of years ago. We were told 'no junk mail' signs only apply to pamphlets, not the paper.
We had a list of houses that had rung and opted out so they weren't delivered to.
It is awful pay and if they had to be placed in a letterbox instead of thrown, I doubt anyone would do it.
They should be in bags during wet weather though.