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Wednesday, April 05, 2006
City flier ban sought
This would be a Godsend! I'm so sick of pulling these out of my doorway, back gate, bushes, etc... Chinese restaurants, pizza joints, realtors, all of them. They are the physical equivalent of spam mail. A lot of these rulings have been struck down in court as a hindrance to free speech, but there has to be a way to stop this unwanted littering and harassment.
posted by Broadsheet @ 10:56 AM  
7 Editorial Opinions:
  • At April 05, 2006, Blogger Bonanza JellyBean said…

    Sorry, but I have to disagree. I am alright with the takeout menus being stuck at my door. It's a big help when I wake up on a Saturday or Sunday morning to hungover to go to the store for food. Chinese or greasy pizza after a night of drinking is heaven. I have a huge collection of menus and they have all been a Godsend. Plus, I order from Number 1 in Canton and I would have no idea they existed if they hadn't of put an advert at my door.

     
  • At April 05, 2006, Blogger Cham said…

    A ban is all well and good, until the day you need to get word out to your neighbors about something. You might want to keep that freedom to dispense paper information in your back pocket if someone decides a Wal-Mart Supercenter is needed next door.

     
  • At April 05, 2006, Blogger Broadsheet said…

    I just think they should pay for legitimate advertising or postage like everyone else. Same goes for getting the word out about Wal Mart.

    We have "opt out" programs for solicitation and phone calls - we should have "opt out" for this kind of thing too.

     
  • At April 05, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    It's a common robbery casing practice to grab a set of flyers from a local takeout place and go door to door checking knobs and looking in front windows while leaving flyers behind to be basically invisible to the cops.

    That said, I think that no trespassing/no soliciting should apply to flyering and those folks should have to respect it or face penalties. But then, how would you enforce it? The same way you'd enforce an all-out ban... pretty much never.

     
  • At April 05, 2006, Blogger Malnurtured Snay said…

    From the perspective of an employee of pizza shops -- albeit, none that will be affected by this ban -- "doorhanging" or "couponing" is a great way to boost sales.

    From a legal perspective, if you have a "NO SOLICITING" policy in your neighborhood and it is violated, you can ask the police to intervene on your behalf (or call the shops and threaten to call the police if they don't stop couponing).

     
  • At April 05, 2006, Blogger tfg said…

    I've always thought of those fliers as wasteful.

     
  • At April 06, 2006, Blogger jwer said…

    I have more of a problem with the waste than anything else; I mean, yes, it's mildly irritating to have to pull the fliers off and go recycle them, and yes, it's annoying that they can signal that you're away if they pile up, but what the delivery places SHOULD do (and this would be infinitely more useful to me) is consolidate a bunch of their menus into one booklet that homeowners would actually use, like a mini Yellow Pages, but just local delivery places.

     
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