Paper Spam
I find the amount of paper spam that my new neighborhood gets everyday to be very disturbing. Every morning sometime between 5am - 9am, multiple someones drop off flyers, coupons, magazines, magazines on to all the door steps in the neighborhood all without permission.
All of this is on top of the stack, sometimes up to an inch thick, of "direct mailing", flyers, coupons, etc. that companies pay the U.S. Post office to put in my mailbox. Our mail lady gets mad at us if we don't pick up our mail everyday. Except it is not mail, it is paper spam.
Between the paper spam left on my door step and in my mailbox, I make a trip or two a day with a stack of papers to the recycle bin in the back of the apartment building. Just like the spam I get via email, the paper spam goes straight to the bin unread.
Are companies desperate for my business or are local marketing / print shops / design firms desperate for their business? People, you are killing trees and ANNOYING me to the point that I don't want to use your service, read your cheesy "upscale" magazine - oops, I mean 4 color glossy excuse to sale ads, or go to your business if you are going to spam me like this.
Next door neighbor Earl just walked around the complex picking up all the paper spam that arrived today, walked back to the recycle bin to deposit said spam, and he is furious.
Direct Marketers, local print shops, franchise businesses, etc: STOP PAPER SPAMMING US!!!
Thank you.
Tink
I think it's a little of both.
That companies are desperate for our dollar and marketing/design firms/printers are desperate for the companies dollar.
Especially for the printers. They don't want the bids to go overseas. Unfortunatly, they probably don't care how it's being distributed just as long as they are paid.
Maybe if it was a perfect world people wouldn't have distribution lists or sell addresses. Maybe what printers should do is quote on already recycled paper and maybe only accept small quanities.
But what comes down to is the dollar and it's unfortunate that what gets hurt is the enviornment at the expense of others. Just keep recycling that junk mail or spam mail and try to get off mailing lists. I read somewhere that the mail you get from solicitors/junk mail that sends a prepaid envelope with it. Stuff all the junk mail, even the envelope with that annoying plastic window, in that prepaid envelope, with a note to take you off the mailing list and send it back to them. I heard it works and at the same time your kinda sticking it to them.