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Re: Palouse Living trashes community...
Charlie & Visionaries,
I agree 100%! I had noticed up to 4 newspapers sitting in tree lawns of
the same yard on my street in the winter. The home owners/renters did not
even know that the papers were there, so they didn't bother to collect
them. I thought that some lazy kid was walking along his route, just
dropping the papers at his feet. But one day, while eating lunch and
looking out my front window, I saw someone driving down the middle of the
street, slowly, and tossing "Palouse Living" out either side of the car and
into tree lawns.
I contacted the Daily News to complain. When I compared this to litter,
the man I spoke to told me, "I hope you don't think that this is
litter." I said, what else could it be? It's an eye sore! Finding
several wet, mushy newspapers in your front yard is no better than finding
discarded carry-out bags from a fast food restaurant.
The Daily News rep told me that he would stop delivery at my house and tell
the delivery person that this mode of delivery was unacceptable. If there
were any more complaints, "He's off the route." I suspect they took him
off my route, Charlie, and put him on yours.
Filing a complaint with the police is one avenue. You can also contact the
advertisers (as most of Palouse Living is advertising), and tell them that
the circulation figures provided by the DN are presumably erroneous, as
many papers are not delivered, but dumped. That will get someone's
attention at the DN!
I must say that I can sympathize with a lower-income individual who tries
to make a living as expediently as possible. I don't imagine the newspaper
delivery business is very lucrative. But this dumping of papers does no
one except the delivery person any favors: The advertisers lose, the
newspaper company loses, the residents lose. Time for the Daily News to
clean up its act, and our neighborhoods!
Bob Hoffmann
846 Mabelle St.
Moscow, ID 83843
Tel: 208 883-0642
Fax: 877 495-2279
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