Junk Mail = a Big Mess
Has the new method of delivering junk mail reached your part of Hervey Bay yet?
Up here in Kawungan it arrived yesterday when everyone discovered a bundle of junk mail, secured by a single thin elastic band had been tossed into their front yard overnight. I suppose that it’s a very efficient form of delivery from the point of view of those who are doing the deliveries, they can cover more ground in less time but what happens when that elastic band breaks and there’s a slight breeze?
I’m sure that those advertisers whose brochures have been blowing all over the streets in some parts of the town will be really popular with their prospective customers.
June 20th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Throwing all of the junk mail together into your garden neatly wrapped in an elastic band! This seems very generous of the deliverers, after all they just made it easier to put all of your junk mail in the recycling / rubbish bin in one go!
June 20th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
It is pretty convenient Nigel - pick them all up in one go, off with the band, drop them in the recycle bin … too easy
But when that band breaks … well I wonder at what point littering laws might come into play.
June 20th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Absolutely right Stuart. Perhaps we could persuade the deliverers to go straight to the recycling bin!
On a serious note I would hate to see the Bay being littered with pointless leaflets due to the band breaking. Maybe there is some form of happy medium here - not sure what it might be though I’m afraid!
June 20th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Until a couple of weeks ago Nigel we’d get both deliveries of junk mail stuffed in our letter boxes each weekend. While that system wasn’t wonderful at least the mess was contained within the letterbox.
Now though one of the delivery organisations has found that it’s more efficient to lob it into the front yard … oh well.