Letter of the Week
If you own or rent a house in Central Oregon you know what this week’s letter writer is talking about. We put the phone book bombardment right up there with the Bulletin’s Marketplace free classified in the pantheon of unwanted commercial litter. If we stopped telemarketers, can’t we stop driveway marketers, too? Just a thought.
Dear City of Bend:
What gives with the f’ing phone books? Do I have a monthly subscription that I don’t know about? Christ all mighty, what happened to once a year? It seems like I just finally brought one in off my steps and this morning I find another one laying there. I’m having nightmares about being squeezed out of my house by phone books multiplying in my drawer like mold in a Petri dish. I thought the Internet made these things obsolete. I thought we were cutting down too many trees in the first place. All I’m saying is: slow down. Please, just slow down. Take a vacation for, say, twelve months.
J Evans, Bend
This article appears in Jul 31 – Aug 6, 2008.
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Maybe you should call the cops? It is, after all, offensive littering to throw shit on someone’s front porch — unless you’ve asked for shit to be thrown on your front porch. (Yes, I subscribe to The Bulletin, and yes, I suppose that’s what I asked for.)
Couldn’t agree more. I remember the days when there was ONE phone book and the phone company delivered it to you.
I guess if you wanted to go to the trouble you could call the company that distributes the unwanted phone book and tell them to send somebody over to your house and get it the hell off your property.
I will have to agree. Not only does this happen at my home but at my place of business as well. But at work I think they dropped off a pallet…. one for each person???? I can not remember the last time I opened one. The last time I really used one was to prop some wood work off the ground for painting.
I say we just send them back, all of them. See how they like it getting a driveway full.