Ads Under Your Door

In NYC, everybody that doesn't have an armed guard outside their door gets inundated every day with these advertisements. Most of them are for restaurants, often Asian and Pizza places, including menus. Others are for car services and various businesses. Sometimes, they just leave them outside the door. I live in an apt. building with many units. We just had one stuck up through on the TOP part of he door so that it will fall when you open it.

If I hear the papers coming in the door, I flip them right back out while the person is still in the hallway.

There is a bill in Albany to make this type of advertising illegal in New York State. I hope it passes.

Do they do this outside of New York? I think it's big here because we have so many restaurants. You could have 20 Chinese restaurants and 10 pizza parlors all within a few blocks of each other. Most of them deliver, as well.

Unfortunately yes...I don't think we'd need nearly as many mail carriers if it weren't for Chinese resturants...lol. It's very frustrating.

I also hate when tele-marketers call my house.
I just can't be rude to anyone, so I nicely say "We're not interested".
My husband is not quite so nice.
He'll curse them out and hang up on them:D
I've heard that there is a 1-800 number you can call to get on the "no call" list, but I can't find it anywhere.

In Holland they have a system for this.
The post office will give you stickers that say either 'Ja' or 'No', in various colors for various kinds of unsolicited mail.
You decide if you want junk mail or not, and what kind (commercial, political, etc).
Businesses caught violating the stickers are fined, and the consumer gets a cut.
You see a lot of 'no' stickers if you look at the mail boxes.

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Originally Posted by psteve

In Holland they have a system for this.
The post office will give you stickers that say either 'Ja' or 'No', in various colors for various kinds of unsolicited mail.
You decide if you want junk mail or not, and what kind (commercial, political, etc).
Businesses caught violating the stickers are fined, and the consumer gets a cut.
You see a lot of 'no' stickers if you look at the mail boxes.

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That's awesome...they should do that here:)

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Originally Posted by Bluntmasterbabe

I also hate when tele-marketers call my house.

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Telemarketers are fun.
If I have time, I try to get some entertainment value out of them before I hang up.
Ask them for their home number so you can call them back when they're eating dinner.

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Originally Posted by psteve

Telemarketers are fun.
If I have time, I try to get some entertainment value out of them before I hang up.
Ask them for their home number so you can call them back when they're eating dinner.

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That's great...lmao:D
I might try that next time.

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Originally Posted by hobbitsmoke

or keep naming vegetables until they hang up

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omg...lmao:D
I love it:D

"Survey?
Ok, how about we trade, question for question. I'll answer yours, if you'll answer mine...
(Heavy breathing...)
What are you wearing?"

I dont get them under the door, just hangin on the door knob.

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Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat

In NYC, everybody that doesn't have an armed guard outside their door gets inundated every day with these advertisements. Most of them are for restaurants, often Asian and Pizza places, including menus. Others are for car services and various businesses. Sometimes, they just leave them outside the door. I live in an apt. building with many units. We just had one stuck up through on the TOP part of he door so that it will fall when you open it.

If I hear the papers coming in the door, I flip them right back out while the person is still in the hallway.

There is a bill in Albany to make this type of advertising illegal in New York State. I hope it passes.

Do they do this outside of New York? I think it's big here because we have so many restaurants. You could have 20 Chinese restaurants and 10 pizza parlors all within a few blocks of each other. Most of them deliver, as well.

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I get ads all the time dropped off in front of my door for new businesses opening, new restaurants, saving the river, etc. Gets pretty annoying opening your door and finding 100 new advertisements just laying on your porch. I live about 8 miles out of DC. SO yes it does happen outside of New York.

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Originally Posted by Bluntmasterbabe

Unfortunately yes...I don't think we'd need nearly as many mail carriers if it weren't for Chinese resturants...lol. It's very frustrating.

I also hate when tele-marketers call my house.
I just can't be rude to anyone, so I nicely say "We're not interested".
My husband is not quite so nice.
He'll curse them out and hang up on them:D
I've heard that there is a 1-800 number you can call to get on the "no call" list, but I can't find it anywhere.

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This is the biggest problem at our house. Our phone rings more then you will know because of telemarketers. I will estimate that we probably get about 2 or 3 calls an hour from telemarketers. My personal opinion on why is because my dad used to do all those surveys and shit online and give out our phone number. Well I found out the number and called it to stop telemarketing on your cell phone! Yes this is new, telemarketers are allowed to call your cell phone unless you call a government number to take your number off the list. But as for our house phone it just rings 24/7 and it is the most loud and annoying thing ever. If I had it my way i would just unplug the phone but people call for work on the phone so we cant.

I live in the boonies so no...but shit, if I was just chilling at home and papers began flyinbg in id freak out haha. Im paranoid enough as it is when I smoke.

we live in the country too, so the only flyers we get are jehovas, mormons, and baptists. lol. we get invited to a different church every week it seems.

Lol, i got a chinese menu through the door the other day, it made me hungry. I get paranoid now when people knock on my door after some shit that went down. Especially coz i'm usually blazed n it prob smells like ganj and it always cud be a fed :/

I hope they pass that law aswell.

We get 'em in Texas for sure, too, and I hate them. I live in an area that's supposedly protected from solicitors, but the walkers and ad-spreaders get in every day and place ads all over our front porches, doors, etc. The environmental cost of all that crap ad stuff is huge, and if we can have laws protecting us from computer spam and telemarketers, why can't we have them protecting us from the hard-copy stuff, too? Door-posting ads and trash mail are two of my environmental pet peeves.