The county should really have a "Don't Throw Law." I'm so sick of picking up unwanted papers at the end of my driveway morning, noon and night! I'd like to have a device that picks up the papers and throws them back. LOL

I have often wanted to collect them and drop them off on the newspaper office's lawn but don't have the time to do it. And I'd probably get busted for littering.

When I was a youth, I delivered for several of those throw rags (the term we used for them was that).

If you call the papers in question and tell them not to deliver to you, they must stop doing so. I used to have lists of people on my route who I had to not deliver to, and I was pretty good about keeping to it.

If you don't pick them up for a while, maybe they will get the message that you're on vacation or simply don't give a shit. Or you could collect them all, and throw them on your neighbor's driveway LOL

Unless they get soggy and wet there are all kinds of things you can use them for. Let your kids colour on them. let your dogs or birds or pets crap on them. Stuff them in boxes when you ship stuff you sell on Ebay. Or just recycle em.

Mine go directly into the recycling bin but it's still a pain.

be thankful you dont live at the beginning of a pipe stem road. I get loads of the papers. The carriers wont make the trip down the pipe stem and just drop off a dozen in front of my place.

If it is the Examiner (I think that is the name), you can call their circulation dept. and they will come out and affix a small dot-decal on your mailbox to let the deliver people know not to deliver the unwanted news to your home. We did this a few weeks ago, worked like a charm.

yeah what with the Herndon Observer, the reston times etc etc your Mailbox would look like a Rainbow wonderbread box

Thanks everybody! Awesome ideas!

Man,

I'm new to the area and I wouldn't mind a bit more information. Expecially some sort of a TV guide, without having to subscribe to something that I may or may not read. Would prefer something in print, and not to happy with the video thing.

Any ideas?

I fired the post and therefore lost their TV listings on Sunday, but you could pick up a Sunday paper. What I ultimately did was watch for sales on TV Guide and then bought as long a subscription as the deal would allow.

pgens Wrote:
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> I fired the post and therefore lost their TV
> listings on Sunday, but you could pick up a Sunday
> paper. What I ultimately did was watch for sales
> on TV Guide and then bought as long a subscription
> as the deal would allow.

From your couch, which you havent got up off of your fat ass from since Roseanne went off the air???

So you are saying when Roseanne went off the air, whenever that was, I decided that TV had turned into something I wanted to watch 24 hours a day?

ffxn8v Wrote:
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> If it is the Examiner (I think that is the name),
> you can call their circulation dept. and they will
> come out and affix a small dot-decal on your
> mailbox to let the deliver people know not to
> deliver the unwanted news to your home. We did
> this a few weeks ago, worked like a charm.


Mailboxes are considered federal property, and federal law (Title 18, United States Code, Section 1705), makes it a crime to vandalize them (or to injure, deface or destroy any mail deposited in them). Violators can be fined up to $250,000, or imprisoned for up to three years, for each act of vandalism.

Postal Inspectors recommend these actions to protect your mailbox and any mail that may be inside it:

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Immediately report theft, tampering or destruction of mail or mailboxes to your postmaster. You’ll be asked to complete PS Form 1510, Mail Loss and Rifling Report, or PS Form 2016, Mail Theft and Vandalism Complaint. The forms help the Postal Inspection Service determine whether your problem is isolated, or one frequently experienced in your neighborhood.
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Obtain Label 33 from the Postal Inspection Service and affix it to your mailbox. The sticker warns that willful damage to mailboxes and theft of mail are crimes.
* Keep your mailbox in good repair, and make sure it’s properly installed. This may help prevent theft of the mailbox itself.

If you have information on mailbox vandalism, call the Postal Inspection Service to report it. Your cooperation helps apprehend violators. You may provide your information or complaints to your local postmaster or your nearest Postal Inspector.

Thanks - but while I understand the mailbox is "Federal Property," I would gladly take the dot (as seems to be practice amongst other papers) vs. the newspapers on my driveway/lawn.

mariokart Wrote:
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>Or you could collect
> them all, and throw them on your neighbor's
> driveway LOL

Lol, thats horrible.

When I lived in Silver Spring, we used to go out at 11:00 at night and switch recycling bins with the people across the street. Ours was filed with beer and wine bottles and it was embarrassing. After the switch, it would appear to the other people on the block that the neighbors were the ones that drank heavily.

The sad part about what we did was that the people we switched bins with were Mormons.

Radiophile Wrote:
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> When I lived in Silver Spring, we used to go out
> at 11:00 at night and switch recycling bins with
> the people across the street. Ours was filed with
> beer and wine bottles and it was embarrassing.
> After the switch, it would appear to the other
> people on the block that the neighbors were the
> ones that drank heavily.
>
> The sad part about what we did was that the people
> we switched bins with were Mormons.


no, the sad part is that you are embarrassed about what you do.


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

What makes you even think that is acceptable (swapping recycle bins)? My neighbor did that to me because his was not being taken for weeks (filled with wrong material). What he didn't realize was my address was painted on the side. Jerks like you need to live somewhere else!

Idiot!

Lurker. Wrote:
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> The county should really have a "Don't Throw Law."
> I'm so sick of picking up unwanted papers at the
> end of my driveway morning, noon and night! I'd
> like to have a device that picks up the papers and
> throws them back. LOL
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