Personal Rant

[Jeff Mottle]

[RANT ON]

 

Yeah I know this has absolutely nothing to do with CG, but why is it that flyer delivery people are so stupid? I phone and threathen these companies within an inch of their lives after the 15th complaint and put signs on my mailbox that I don't want junkmail or flyers and yet they continue to throw them on my lawn ,on the porch from the front street, or better yet in a snow bank in the yard. Is it just me or am I the target of some 12 year old that should be tossed into a snow bank himself? Tonight I left yet another message indicating my next step would be a tresspassing charge against this company if they did it one more time. It seems as soon as one company finally stops another one starts up.

 

Does anyone else have these problems, or am I just lucky.

 

It's bad enough I get so much spam, now I get litter and an endless barrage of telephone and fax solicitations. Even my damn cell phone gets spammed with text messages I don't want!

 

This summer was a classic. While I was relaxing on my couch I hear a thud against the front window. Knowing exactly what it was, and seeing my oppourtunity to rip some 12 year old a new oraface, I opened my front door and was suprised to see it was a mother with her daughter. The mother was passing them to her daughter while she flung them from the front street against the houses. I asked her if she had ever heard of a mailbox and that if she had actually attempted to use it she would have seen the sign indicating I did not want it in the first place. Her reply: "Sorry my daughter can't read" !!!! WhAT!! I'm the target of the idiot people.

 

Ok I'm done....

 

Let me hear your stories so I don't feel all alone in my plight LOLOLOL!

 

[RANT OFF]

[moshenko]

I feel your pain... Toronto feels like the capital of the junkmail universe some days.

 

I like combining my disgust for flyers with my disdain for unsolicited "offers" from places like credit card companies: stuff all of the flyers into the kindly postage-paid envelopes for credit applications after blackening your name and address; the credit companies get all excited thinking they've got another interest-paying sucker on their hands, but find out that they really only have a deal on 3-for-2 pizza or a free home alarm system.

 

I recently started a new method of combatting fax junk. I submit a complaint to the CRTC anytime I receive one, and send an email to the company that sent the fax explaining what I've done. I've had some really entertaining responses from fax companies! The best one was a guy trying to explain that there are "a couple of bad apples" that are spoiling it for the "legitimate" faxers... I asked him if I could send a bill for the wasted fax paper and my time in trying to sort out the good from the bad Amazingly, the CRTC responds to each of my complaints and has even notified me of hearings into fax spam!

[Eric]

Unsolicited trash. I hate it!

 

Flyers on windshields of cars - just the other day I was furious to find out (after I had already gotten in my car) that there was a flyer on my windshield. I walked up on my car from the rear, and did not notice the flyer until I was just about buckled in. When I got out and grabbed the flyer, I noticed I was the lucky one. They had actually placed mine on the driver-side. All the rest of the cars in the parking lot had theirs placed on the passenger side. I just don't understand it. If you're trying to market your company, the last thing you want to do is tick off your target audience. Making them get out and walk all the way around their car to remove the flyer, or even worse, the recipient of littering violations because they turned on their wipers while they were driving down the road and the flyer blew off the car - well, that's just not good customer relations.

 

Another thing that irritates the fire out of me is the crap that falls out of magazines when you're thumbing through them at the magazine rack at the local books store. I don't even waste my time picking the cards up. If it falls, so be it. They should have been more careful when they inserted it into the magazine.

 

How about political flyers? I actually called one of the local candidate headquaters and told them to come get their unsolited litter off my front door. The girl was like "sir, I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but can't you just throw it away?" I think she missed the point - it's not my trash to throw away in the first place!! Perhaps I should have collected all the flyers from my street and made a personal delivery to her front yard - because that's where they end up, my front yard. The way the wind blows on my street, my yard seems to be a natural receptical to other people's trash. Good thing I'm moving.

 

Interesting thread!

[Jeff Mottle]

Amazingly, the CRTC responds to each of my complaints and has even notified me of hearings into fax spam!

 

Very interesting. I should try this.

[PJ]

How about the CD in 'how to' computer books so you can't flick through them and if you try to pull it out it take half the spine...

OR automated calls that tell you you've won a top prize that fills the answer phone end to end, usually a bloke trying to sound like someone that's not recorded...

I've got hundreds of these, but i've got to go to work!!

 

Phil

[Fran]

I like the recorded telemarketing messages I get that start with "Don't hang up!"

 

Guess what I do?

[vizwhiz]

Jeff

 

consider The Alternative = living in a place with

 

NO Phone NO Computer NO Street Address

NO Mail delivery NO running water NO indoor Plumbing

 

etc

 

reminds me of where i grew up (if i ever grew up)

in the middle of the woods in Monkey Run, Arkansas

 

the place is so small There are NO STREETS just back woods

 

about 10 miles to the nearest living human being

who we were HAPPY TO SEE and spent Time talking to

 

Person to Person, whenever we met, infrequently

i guess This is just The cost of being human, nowadays

 

Randy

 

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"dont wake me i must be dreaming"