Re: No flyers please?
 

Clearly my "boy" is in serious need of some extra cash. Maybe I should tip him.

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When I first came to Vancouver I used to see loads of signs on people's front doors that said, "No Courier Please". I couldn't understand what they had against couriers since they're usually delivering something! Then I found out that there's a free local rag called Vancouver Courier! Doh! :o

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Most of our ad flyers for the local stores come in the 3 times a week "free" local paper. While the paper is free you do have to pay the delivery kid $6/month to deliver it. They only use kids from 12 to 16 in age and they give you a sheet of coupons for local restaurants when you pay. I do use these flyers to plan my grocery shopping for the week, so we pay our kid (a boy who lives 4 houses up the street) when he comes around.

All the really annoying flyers come in our mailbox rather than the paper or delivered to our door.

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No - you are reading too much into the fact that I didnt give you all of the information you needed. Perhaps I should have said "their mum" - happy now?

What has Gary Glitter got to do with it? :confused:

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I surely won't be giving mine anything other than a clip round the earhole. I collected up my stuff and found my mail soaking wet as he'd left the lid up and we has a bit of rain last week...er twice coz minutes after I collected it he's delivered again and left it open again and he was watching me as I talked to me about closing the lid :( (we have two deliveries a week!!)

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It's not at all clear why the mother of the child or children who deliver the paper would be unhappy at your providing them with a monetary reward. Thus I wondered if you meant something else by "tip".

Gary Glitter was a British pop singer in the eighties. He's still famous as his name is rhyming slang for rectum and he has been much in the news lately.

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I'm probably going to regret asking this one but.....

how on earth does GG become rhyming slang for rectum....perhaps I'm out of practice but I can't think of anything that rhymes.....:confused:

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HWP is absolutely correct in this regard.

Here is a link to a letter to the editor written by a Canada Post spokesperson in July of this year.

Cheers
Steve

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Actually I love the flyers, I sit down on Wed and Fri nights with a nice cup of tea and a stack of flyers to go through... yes, it's like that...

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Shi**er.

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I know this post is a little late....

how about putting your recycling box under (or near) your mail box so the waste goes straight into it (rather than junk being brought into the house)

or you could even put a note saying that if people insist on delivering junk to your home (in order to get paid) then could they please deliver it straight to your recycling bin :-)