April 23, 2008
Stop the Stop the Examiner Cards
Oh yay, more scraps of paper to throw out. And just what this city needs: even more needless legislation.
Look, if you want the Examiner to stop delivery to your door, then simply call this number: 866-733-7323. You can even talk to a live person who will tell you that deliver will be stopped to your place of residence in two to three business days. There's no need to involve the bureaucracy of City Hall.
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"Simply call this number."
Yeah, right. The mental genius of a delivery guy, who wraps four newspapers in each plastic bag, will surely remember, "oops, not that apartment, she doesn't want one."
These things are flung helter skelter all over the sidewalks, no delivery person is paying attention to addresses.
Oh PUHLEEZE. I called the number a long time ago and my building hasn't seen an Examiner since. Why involve City Hall with this? Bunch of babies in this farking city.
I, for one, think it's awesome to get the Examiner for free.
You'll see three bagged copies on the sidewalk in front of a building with three main entrance doors, as if the carrier intends one paper for each residence. That makes it seem pretty targetted.
Getting these papers up off of the sidewalk would be a good first step.
Don't silence the 4th Estate! Plus, the Examiners hardly compare to all the fucking hobo trash that litters SF.
Wrong! I guess this SFist writer doesn't live on a street with weeks of bagged Examiners strewn all over. Yes, call the number and yes, fill out those cards and encourage necessary and needed legislation to stop this ridiculous mess. As you call and send those forms, also remember that the Examiner is owned by a rich, right-wing nut.
um, we have some Examiner papers on our sidewalks in Presidio Terrace.
email them.
that worked for us and our whole block now hasn't received it for over a year. make sure to include in the email your not interested to read such incompetent journal first thing in the morning IN A PLASTIC BAG.
thanx.
http://www.examiner.com/Contact_Us.html
http://www.examiner.com/delivery/
I have emailed and called them. Neither works.
If you live in Presidio Terrace, I'll eat my hat.
Yeah, I gotta chime in here... I used to work at The Examiner, and circulation vp Mike Costello is the most inept fool I have ever encountered in my career. It takes a great deal of persistence for some people to get home delivery to stop. Maybe if you were to email him directly...
I like them on the sidewalk. They give me a near lifetime supply of dog shit bags.
The Examiner is great! It's FREE and totally worth it! I don't like to spend too much time reading a newspaper article and I love all the AP stories.
Some motherfucker grabs The Examiner off my stoop most mornings before I can get to it. I've survived.
I like them on the sidewalk. They give me a near lifetime supply of dog shit bags.
+1
"There's no need to involve the bureaucracy of City Hall."
Uh, why not? I think you're very seriously mistaken, Brock. First, stop pandering to the Examiner. They won't give you a job just because you refuse to criticize them in a public forum.
Second, this is exactly the kind of issue City Hall should take charge of. My building includes about a dozen flats and we're surrounded by dozens of little piles of abandoned Examiners, composting away in their plastic bags. I've called the Examiner offices twice and demanded they stop hurling their rag at my building every morning. They agreed to do so, yet nothing has been done. What kind of resources is the city wasting scooping up these journalistic dog turds?
Littering is illegal and that's exactly what unsolicited home delivery of the Examiner is - littering. Were you to mindlessly drop garbage behind you as you wander about whatever hipster filled enclave in which you prefer to spend your time, you'd be breaking the law and should suffer the consequences accordingly. Why does the Examiner get a free ride here? The owner of the Examiner needs to be rounded up and severely punished.
First step - the Examiner. Second step - Chinese takeaway menus...
@ TAYM,
"They won't give you a job just because you refuse to criticize them in a public forum."
Are you kidding? I mean, you're joking, right?
Come off it, Brock, we all know you want to be the next Ken Garcia! You ain't fooling anyone!
I swear TAYM, I wanna kick your snotty little ass so bad.
If you are concerned about take out menus all you need to do is post a sign at least eight square inches in size that says No Handbills - if violations continue, you can file a complaint with the Department of Public Works (violators can be fined up to $250. Here's the legal language from the ordinance passed by the Board of Supervisors (note that this does not apply to newspapers).
(b) Prohibition When "No Handbills" Sign Posted. It shall be unlawful for any Person to distribute, cause to be distributed, or suffer, allow or permit the distribution of any Handbill to or upon any private premises in the City by placing or causing any such Handbill to be deposited or placed in or upon any porch, yard, steps, hallway, or mailbox located on, or used in connection with such premises when such premises has posted thereon in a conspicuous place, a notice or notices of at least eight square inches in area bearing the words "No Handbills" or the like, unless such Person has first received the written permission of the occupant of such premises authorizing the Person so to distribute.
On Lower Haight, we've discovered the secret: just a few killings per year, and the free papers (and parking enforcement) disappear.
Try it; you'll see the difference.
the chinese menus stay, folks, period. i never know when i'll need general's chicken.
Look, I don't have a huge beef with the Chinese take away menus, per se, because I actually use them. However, do I need a new copy of the menu delivered three times a week? Particularly when I have more than a dozen restaurants vying for my home delivery attention? I keep a file in my home office labeled "menus" where I stash one copy of each menu delivered. I don't need 32 copies of each one and if Red Jade Chinese restaurant thinks tormenting me with a never ending deluge of take away menus in this here age of the Internets is going to convince me to hand them my American dollars in exchange for their MSG soaked fried cornstarch balls in corn syrup sauce, they're very seriously mistaken.
I think I'll take DavidSFE's advice and hang a "No Handbills" sign above the "Este Hogar es Catolico" placard I put up to ward off those evil polygamist Jehovah's Mormons who have the gall to wake me up at 10 in the AM on Saturday mornings, full of "good news" about their lard and saver. Ten in the morning on Saturday is practically the middle of the night. The last thing I want to do at that ungodly hour is think about god, thank you very much.
I hate the examiner delivery system. It sucks. I actually live on a relatively quiet clean street, except for the examiners strewn all over the place. I have finally gotten them to stop delivering to me, but they are still all over the street.
In fairness to them, I did write a scathing letter to the editor about their littering the city and they printed it, but as nobody reads the paper it did not really matter much.
We thought they stopped delivering The Examiner to our building after calling the number above. However it turns out our landlady, who lives in the flat below us, is intercepting the papers and hording them.
So if you can't stop the delivery we suggest getting a crazy landlady hoarder to live underneath you.
Always good to use those for doggie training!
Where do the postcards come from? I would like to mail them back to sender. With Examiner attached. Postage due.
Note to self: Red Jade uses lots of MSG, don't order from them...
"I keep a file in my home office labeled "menus" where I stash one copy of each menu delivered."
Organized AND angry?
I officially have a platonic crush on Angry Young Man.
@ bluecanary, you can do better.
Aw, bitter.
This is TOTAL B.S. I called the Distribution # in the paper 12 times, then asked for a Supervisor, that is Noel. I spoke with him several times before he referred me to his boss, the VP of Distribution, Mike Costello. I spoke with him 2x and he assured me the papers would stop (just as Noel did each time and the nice call takers at Distribution). All told, I have logged 16 calls to the Examiner in the past 6 months.
Guess what.. the paper was here again this morning. AFAIC, it is litter. Why is it that they feel they have a right to litter my yard? I have had lamps broken, lawn killed (while out of town) and for a while, I was getting 2 papers each time.. so they would REALLY stack up in my yard while traveling.
It is just very frustrating. I personally think they should offer FREE subscriptions to those that WANT their paper instead of throwing 1 or 2 at EVERY house.. even those that DON'T WANT IT!