Postman for a night
Oct. 27th, 2009 07:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slowfoxThe latest issue of the Residents' Association newsletter, hot off the presses, got hand delivered to the 100 or so houses in my half of the street last night by yours truly.
This is not a job I particularly enjoy, although I did at least have This Week in Tech on the phone to provide some accompaniment. As for 'how long can it take to deliver 100 newsletters?' Well, actually, longer than you'd think - especially since half the doors of my neighbours seem to have these special, super-sprung letterboxes designed to snap posties' fingers in half. Just like my door. Oops.
The other thing that makes this a task tremulously taken with trepidation (alliteration FTW) is that, given the high density of housing 'round these parts, we have a real problem with junk mail. Particularly takeaway menus, which land on the doormat at a rate of 4-5 glossy scraps of paper every day of every week. The waste is staggering.
As a consequence, a fair number of houses have 'no junk mail' stickers on their doors. The Chair of the Residents' Association, however, has instructed us to deliver the newsletter to houses so indicated, because 'it doesn't count as junk mail'. If you ask me, this is very much an eye of the beholder type thing, and I don't relish the inevitable confrontation that's bound to arise from this policy. Nonetheless, I delivered all mine without consequence, so live to fight another day...
This is not a job I particularly enjoy, although I did at least have This Week in Tech on the phone to provide some accompaniment. As for 'how long can it take to deliver 100 newsletters?' Well, actually, longer than you'd think - especially since half the doors of my neighbours seem to have these special, super-sprung letterboxes designed to snap posties' fingers in half. Just like my door. Oops.
The other thing that makes this a task tremulously taken with trepidation (alliteration FTW) is that, given the high density of housing 'round these parts, we have a real problem with junk mail. Particularly takeaway menus, which land on the doormat at a rate of 4-5 glossy scraps of paper every day of every week. The waste is staggering.
As a consequence, a fair number of houses have 'no junk mail' stickers on their doors. The Chair of the Residents' Association, however, has instructed us to deliver the newsletter to houses so indicated, because 'it doesn't count as junk mail'. If you ask me, this is very much an eye of the beholder type thing, and I don't relish the inevitable confrontation that's bound to arise from this policy. Nonetheless, I delivered all mine without consequence, so live to fight another day...
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Date: 2009-10-27 01:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-27 05:08 pm (UTC)No doubt the menus are all printed from recycled paper, and thus the circle is complete.
Life would be much easier of the people would simply deposit the menus straight into the recycling bin, and save me the bother of having to sooop them off the doormat in the middle of the process.
More seriously, the proper post can risk being buried in the avalanche of junk that constantly pours in. It's a serious problem... hence my discomfort at being perceived as adding to the onslaught. :-/