You know, this is an idea I hadn’t seriously thought about before…but I like it.
From the AP wire:
Complaints from the Westminster resident Finch and others about free home-delivery newspapers in Maryland have inspired State Del. Tanya Shewell to propose a “Do Not Deliver” registry that would work similarly to the “Do Not Call” registry for telemarketers. If approved, would be the first of its kind in the nation.
Shewell said her constituents complain that they’re just ignored when they call a newspaper asking that delivery be stopped. She said people can’t stop deliveries even when they leave town, meaning papers are left around as an invitation to burglars. The newspapers often litter roadsides and storm drains.[...]
The complaints started soon after the 2006 launch of The Baltimore Examiner, a free paper which delivers about 230,000 of its total 250,000 circulation to Maryland homes six days a week, making it the state’s largest daily.
Fortunately, up here in Nutmeg Land, we aren’t blessed with the plague of a free daily paper, but each week does see a free neighborhood paper stuck onto my mailbox, which inevitably goes inside, gets unwrapped, with plastic stuck into the trash and the paper stuck into the “to be recycled” pile of past issues and weekly junk fliers delivered in the mail.
I could definitely go for such a list….as well as a list to stop the junk mail that doesn’t honor the DMA’s Preference Lists.
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1 PittCaleb // 27 Jan 2008 at 11:07 pm
We have such a ’service’ here in Central NJ. When we moved here 6 months ago, I phoned the number on the paper asking them to stop. They did for about a month, then it has continued. I have thought about finding a way to file a complaint against them for littering. I mean seriously, what gives them the right to throw literal garbage on my property? Can I do this to other people? Any thoughts or other ideas?