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I actually caught the prick who delivers ours the other day and screamed at him loudly enough that for one week my wishes were respected. I have called twice but it does no good. Last year when I cut a large juniper bush out of the front yard I found 10 of these gross bags in it so if you think they forgot you for a week it is just somewhere you can't see. It is my dream to save up several dozen, get them good and wet, and then throw them into the guys car as he drives by.
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I don't remember what I said but they don't stop at my house. You can find most of the Hawthorne Food Days in the Red Cross recycle bin next to the 7-11.

I did explain to the oregonian that I get the financial times on my porch for $99 per year so why would I pay $200 for their paper.
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Yeah, if anyone from the O reads this: this shit is infuriating, and engenders the polar opposite response than the one you want.

In closing, FUUUUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOU.
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Also, I can't believe this legal littering goes on all over town, and everyone's just powerless to stop it.

I think it's way past time we filled up a truck with these, and dumped them all on the lawn of someone in charge.

Who's in charge, and where do they live?
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@CeeCee:

I'm in.
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I was always curious how the actual content was supposed to entice someone into a subscription. Mostly ads, a few recipes?

Every so often a crossword, but that's it.
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I'm in. These fucking things are killing my prize-winning (not really, but this is my favorite bush adjective) camellia bushes. Just let me know where to drop them off.
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Years ago we had the mystery Oregonian subscription start showing up at our house. I looked at the front, then threw it in the recycling. This went on for a few days.

On a nice sunny Saturday afternoon I received a phone call from a guy in the Oregonian's subscription department. He asked me how I was liking the paper and I said that I didn't read it. He asked where I got my news, I said mostly WW (this was 1998 or so) and the Internet, plus I didn't like all the wasteful paper clutter around the house.

The guy started launching into a tirade about computers and WW's Richard Meeker. His screaming tirade (really!) sounded like what you read in the comments section of the Oregonian now. Anyways. his screaming was silenced when he hung up the phone on me.

I was left in a very confused daze and my Saturday was not so bright anymore. I called them on the following Monday and complained. The supervisor was apologetic at least.
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I use the bag to pick up dog poop and throw the paper into recycling. Like other commenters, I've called the O twice. They skipped us for a week or so, but then resumed their littering.
If you get this one under control, please help me to get Comcast and Clear from sending me junk mail. I get a piece of mail from both of them every effing day of the week.
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Oregon Statutes - Chapter 164 - Offenses Against Property - Section 164.805 - Offensive littering.

(a) Discarding or depositing any rubbish, trash, garbage, debris or other refuse upon the land of another without permission of the owner, or upon any public way or in or upon any public transportation facility;

Hmph. If only.
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My girlfriend and I have been returning all of our junk mail to the original senders (which is mostly Clear, Citibank and Chase). The company from which the mail is sent ends up paying for the return postage and the U.S. Postal service makes some badly needed money. My tiny fuck you to these companies.
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Has anyone ever tried calling the O and asking them to stop? It worked for me.
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@ The Darkness-my retired postal worker neighbor tells me that if you can stuff enough crap into those return envelopes to make them thicker than 1/4" wide, they pay extra on the return postage! Also, I have a friend that taped one of those return envelopes onto a box of rocks and mailed it. That got them riled up.

I say, let's start sending the Food Day to those fuckers.
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as acouple of us have said, smithygreg, we've called the O and the littering continues.
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I like these ideas, especially creative use of return envelopes!

I hate these things but the free newsprint comes in handy for starting fires in my grill or firepit in the summer. And the glossy ones burn in pretty colors, even though that's probably terribly environmentally unfriendly.

Does anyone know what the recycling centers think of all this waste? I'd bet that something like 90%+ must get forwarded straight from the porch to the recycling bin.
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We called and they did actually stop. Occasionally one shows up and we need to call again. Once I went running after the guy who threw it and he apologized saying that he was new on the route and didn't know we don't want it. Call. And then call again. It won't stop unless people complain. And we're good at that, right?
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I filled out a form on the better business bureau website the second time they delivered after I requested they stop. When you file a BBB request, they take your request VERY seriously. I received letter-headed (woah) responses from the Oregonian FEDEX'd to my house confirming that I would not receive these anymore. All told it likely cost them hundreds in $/time to triple check that I would never receive these again.

Just document everything. It's a sad state of affairs when I must record every conversation I have with business entities to hold them to their word.
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Just in case the folks at The O haven't gotten the hint from CC's comments above...

I'd rather suffer in complete ignorance than read your fucking rag of a paper. Go away and fucking die. Ps. Unless you start including more Justin Bieber stories...
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I HATE those fucking Oregonian ad-sacks. I get one on my porch every goddamn day. MAKE THEM STOP.
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I have started a facebook group, Stop The Oregonian's Food Day Delivery. We are collecting unwanted copies of Food Day for a mass return to Oregonian HQ. I live in a complex of 20-some units, so I collect 10-12 a week. I am also looking into the possibility of a class-action lawsuit. It IS Offensive Littering, as Cam pointed out. If it was an individual, they could be cited for a crime- even by a fellow citizen. The sad reality in Amerika today is that corporations get all the privileges of personhood, but not the liabilities.

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