Flyers in my door

We have our board meeting on Tuesday and our liason with the Police department should be there so I can discuss it with them then and see if they have any suggestions on what we should do. For anyone that wants to come and talk to her in person the meeting starts at 5:30pm and if nothing else can let the rest of the board know your concerns during the owner comment time

Staci

 

Today I had the following experience:

A solicitor whom I assume in non-licensed placed three fliers on my front door. With the wind, they blew off the door and onto my lawn. I saw him from inside the house so went outside to pick the litter up off the lawn.

Fifteen minutes later, he came back and left a SECOND set of the same fliers on the door. I again went outside, chased him down and asked him about a license. He claimed not to speak English.

I called all three companies to complain. I left a message with two of them (Maid Cleaning Service and Potomac Patio) and spoke personally to the third company (Steadfast Construction) where the person who answered the phone seemed completely unconcerned.

 

As Cliff mentioned, this has been discussed many times during the board meetings and another problem is how do you enforce the no solicitation rule, should one be imposed? The best solution is to ask for thier license and if one is not presented to call the police, hopefully, as mentioned, that will stop them if it happens often enough. Keep in mind however, this is not a priority for the police so the response time probably won't coincide with the time the solicitors are "working the neighborhood".

 

Also note that the solicitation licensing requirement only applies to those going door to door trying to sell something. It does NOT apply to people who simply leave flyers in your door.

 

So far today I have received the third flier in as many days from both Maid Cleaning Service and Steadfast Construction. I also received one flier from ColorScape Inc.

I am *really* tired of these companies consistently littering and trespassing on my property.

There has to be *something* we can do about this.

 

<geek>Will bayesian filtering work on actual people? 8)</geek>

 

What's "Bayesian Filtering"?


Bear

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_filtering

 

Well I wish you all luck! I am at home a lot and I can tell you that these flyers are mainly passed out by Latino men who have a pile in their hands and just put them in your door, etc., and walk away. I have a finished basement (by the builder) I have a deck and fence, which they can see, but they have a job to do and that is to give us a flyer.

I've thought about calling the company, but hey, like that's going to change the issiue. Ok, so you can drop a flyer at this house, but not this one, Please.

Yes, I hate to see wasting of tree, too. I really can't see a good working answer to this situation.

 

Put a small trash can on your stoop labelled: "Los anuncios van aqui."

 

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ROTF !!!

I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that one ... !!

 

Hi Everyone,
I know that putting two pieces of paper in the trash can be a hard thing to do if you are constantly doing it, but you know... these people who are passing out flyers are doing a job and not an easy one at that. Everyone is trying to make money and a living. Also, if other residents didn't respond to these flyers, they would never be distributed to your door. So it might be an inconvenience to you but it’s a way to pay someone else's rent, mortgage, etc. I think calling the cops, wow, isn't that extreme? After all we are a community and in the community some of us may be looking for good offers by local companies. Some of you guys should chill a little. I hope I don't upset anyone, but I think there are bigger fish to fry in the community, like let's get together and do something about speeding cars on the streets that our children play in. It is just a thought.

 

It's not a matter of the inconvenience of throwing them away...it's the fact that when they jam it in the door it can damage the weatherstripping.

 

"Can?!!" I've had to replace the weatherstripping on our front door twice now because of fliers stuffed inside the door frame.

I've also had to repair the mailbox when the flag was torn off after someone decided to stuff fliers between the flag and the box.

In addition, should I go out of town, these fliers are an advertisement for teenagers to come to my house and break into my garage to drink the beer in my refrigerator. Or worse.

When it's windy, it litters my yard and I have to pick up the stuff. I am busy with two small kids and have much better things to do with my time besides dealing with this.

In response to HVA, it is not that hard of a job to walk from door to door. I say this from experience as I had a paper route as a teenager where the daily paper had to be hand delivered to the front door for each person on my route.

If you are a for legal resident of this country there are plenty of other opportunities to support your family which doesn't involve trespassing, littering, skirting the US Postal Service, damaging private property and the nuisance factor of "ding & ditch" when the above includes ringing a doorbell.

 

I just find it annoying, and I make it a point not to visit those places that perfer to do business by mass litering. I also dislike the magazine sellers or whatever they do sellers that have the horrible life story to guilt you into listening to whatever it is they are selling.

 

Heh

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Someone rings the doorbell.

MICHAEL
Who is it?

He hides the checks while Peter goes to the door.

PETER
Don't panic. It's probably just the mailman.

He opens the door.

STEVE
MONOTONOUSLY) HELLO SIR. MY NAME IS STEVE. I CAME FROM A ROUGH AREA. I USED TO BE ADDICTED TO CRACK BUT NOW I'M OFF AND TRYING TO STAY CLEAN.

PETER
Ok.

STEVE
That is why I am selling magazine subscriptions.

PETER
No -

STEVE
I was hoping you would help me out.

MICHAEL
Wait, wait, wait, wait! You used to be addicted to crack?

STEVE
Yes, but not anymore.

Cut to later. They've got Steve in an armchair, trying to get him to
help.

STEVE
Look, I'm sorry. I do not know anything about money laundering.

MICHAEL
Look, we're not asking you if you know about money laundering, we're
just trying to see if you can hook us up.

PETER
He doesn't know anything, all right?

SAMIR
Wait, wait, wait a minute. Wait a minute. You just give us the name of
one drug dealer. I could talk to him. I have good networking skills.

STEVE
NORMAL) I LIED. ALL THAT STUFF ABOUT ME BEING A CRACKHEAD WAS TO HELP ME SELL MAGAZINES. I'M A SOFTWARE ENGINEER.

 

Yah, well...I tried.

Pasting a script is rarely funny, unless it's Blazing Saddles.

 

Or the sales pitch from Tommy Boy

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Tommy: Let's think about this for a sec, Ted, why would somebody put a guarantee on a box? Hmmm, very interesting.
Ted Nelson, Customer: Go on, I'm listening.
Tommy: Here's the way I see it, Ted. guy puts a fancy guarantee on a box 'cause he wants you to feel all warm and toasty inside.
Ted Nelson, Customer: Yeah, makes a man feel good.
Tommy: 'Course it does. Why shouldn't it? Ya figure you put that little box under your pillow at night, the Guarantee Fairy might come by and leave a quarter, am I right, Ted?
Ted Nelson, Customer: What's your point?
Tommy: The point is, how do you know the fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer? "Building model airplanes" says the little fairy, well, we're not buying it. He sneaks into your house once, that's all it takes. The next thing you know, there's money missing off the dresser and your daughter's knocked up, I seen it a hundred times.
Ted Nelson, Customer: But why do they put a guarantee on the box?
Tommy: Because they know all they sold ya was a guaranteed piece of sh**. That's all it is, isn't it? Hey, if you want me to take a dump in a box and mark it guaranteed, I will. I got spare time. But for now, for your customer's sake, for your daughter's sake, ya might wanna think about buying a quality product from me.
Ted Nelson, Customer: [pause] Okay, I'll buy from you.