I'm really tired of the AJC's endless littering with their unwanted spam papers (neighborhood, live)

[cittic10]

Originally Posted by Adric

I believe that an HOA has the authority to contact the AJC and have their subdivision formally removed from the delivery list if my memory serves me correct.

Your memory serves you partially correct.
In the past when we call up the AJC and tell them to stop delivering to the whole neighborhood, the first level customer service tells you "no we can remove a specific address but not the whole neighborhood."

When you ask to speak to a supervisor, they give you an email address for your future communication with them. They made me send a complete list of every address in the sub. In the past that works for a while then they're right back at it. Then you complain again and it stops for a while then it happens again. This most recent time I complained, threatened a law suit, used a no handbills sticker and nothing has changed.

They just don't care. What's worse is every other house has no fewer than 3 spam papers laying there and most of which are beyond being able to be read because they are in their vomit-like state of paper mache. It looks terrible. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has absolutely zero respect for the community.

Originally Posted by erick295

Man, people with houses have some crazy problems. Stuff like this really makes me glad to be in an apartment

Uh yeah. I know all about life in an apartment all the joys of apartment living and those crazy problems.
But this is certainly one thing you don't have to deal with. Although it does make other parts of your community look horrendous.

Originally Posted by flyonpa

When I lived up in PA we had the same issue, We made up a flyer, attached to the newspaper, and someone when to the publishers home (about 2 miles away) and dumped hundreds at the end of his driveway. Other neighborhoods found out about us doing it, and each morning he would come out to find piles and piles of (wet) newspaper piled on his driveway. About 2 weeks after we started 'returning' the papers to him, the 'free' distribution stopped.

I love it!
There's enough of them in our sub right now to do a sizable pile.
Although I'm guessing Anne Cox chambers has a staff of peons to clean up all the soggy piles of her spam papers long before she even gets wind of them being there. Especially her home en Provence.
So lovely to see her doing so well when her newspaper is reduced to spamming the crap out of millions of people and laying off lots of folks.

[Humanista]

Perhaps you should contact a non-Cox television station. They seem to love taking these problems on. Maybe the attention along with an en masse here's what to do to get the AJC to stop, will have a result.

[AnsleyPark]

Music Midtown generated more waste and litter in 24 hours than the AJC does in a year.... Piedmont Park was in a disgraceful shape yesterday. As was my street.

[cittic10]

Originally Posted by Esperanita

Perhaps you should contact a non-Cox television station. They seem to love taking these problems on. Maybe the attention along with an en masse here's what to do to get the AJC to stop, will have a result.

I might try that. But I don't expect that will make them stop.
That's just free publicity for them.

Originally Posted by AnsleyPark

Music Midtown generated more waste and litter in 24 hours than the AJC does in a year.... Piedmont Park was in a disgraceful shape yesterday. As was my street.

But isn't there is someone who's getting paid to clean that mess up?

[AnsleyPark]

Originally Posted by cittic10

I might try that. But I don't expect that will make them stop.
That's just free publicity for them.



But isn't there is someone who's getting paid to clean that mess up?

Even more expenses for City of Atlanta tax payers (the folks who came from out of town don't contribute to litter pickup...) and for the Piedmont Park Conservancy. And, I had to pick up the litter in my front yard. I just don't understand why some folks are so irresponsible. I do have to admit, though, that the drunken idiot who decided to pee in my front yard Saturday evening got a big surprise when my 125 lb. Rottie paid him a friendly visit.

[cittic10]

Originally Posted by AnsleyPark

Even more expenses for City of Atlanta tax payers (the folks who came from out of town don't contribute to litter pickup...) and for the Piedmont Park Conservancy. And, I had to pick up the litter in my front yard. I just don't understand why some folks are so irresponsible. I do have to admit, though, that the drunken idiot who decided to pee in my front yard Saturday evening got a big surprise when my 125 lb. Rottie paid him a friendly visit.

Well that's why in-town living isn't for everyone.
I don't like things like litter and people peeing in my front yard or parking in the street or walking by the house that is all big city stuff that I didn't bargain for out in the country. Now you got these AJC city slickers coming out here throwing their trash in the street.

If people would clean up the mess I wouldn't care one iota but that's really the root of the matter is most homeowners are slobs and just leave the papers there thinking someone else is going to come by and sweep the streets for them. It makes me so mad that the owners don't care, the county doesn't care and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution sure as hell doesn't care because they're a bunch of pigs.

[AnsleyPark]

Originally Posted by cittic10

Well that's why in-town living isn't for everyone.
I don't like things like litter and people peeing in my front yard or parking in the street or walking by the house that is all big city stuff that I didn't bargain for out in the country. Now you got these AJC city slickers coming out here throwing their trash in the street.

If people would clean up the mess I wouldn't care one iota but that's really the root of the matter is most homeowners are slobs and just leave the papers there thinking someone else is going to come by and sweep the streets for them. It makes me so mad that the owners don't care, the county doesn't care and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution sure as hell doesn't care because they're a bunch of pigs.

Those AJC "city slickers" - their offices and plants are in Gwinnett County now! So, really it's you country folk who are littering up the city! Just joshing with you, of course. You do make a good point about owners and governments that don't care. I also detest the little baggies that have rocks and ads in them that folks seem to think is a great way to market. Never have gotten that one.

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by AnsleyPark

I do have to admit, though, that the drunken idiot who decided to pee in my front yard Saturday evening got a big surprise when my 125 lb. Rottie paid him a friendly visit.

Excellent!

So sorry that the park and your street were trashed, Ansley. That is utterly irresponsible.

By the way, I can't speak for Music Midtown but I have noticed over the years that the majority of the cars you see at intown events don't have Fulton County tags. That was often the case when crowds were running amok in Buckhead too.

You are spot on about the AJC. They're about as far removed from "city slicker" as it gets. Their headquarters, both physically and otherwise, is in Dunwoody and their printing is out in Gwinnett.

[Mirabella]

I had a neighbor who left those papers in the driveway and instead of having a coronary over it, I just threw them in the trash bin on pick-up day. Problem solved.

[JPD]

Originally Posted by AnsleyPark

Even more expenses for City of Atlanta tax payers (the folks who came from out of town don't contribute to litter pickup...)

That's true, but people who come here from out of town spend exponentially more on goods and services than they use free-of-charge in government services such as sanitation, so it's a big win overall.

I don't thionk it's a smart move to be anti-tourist and anti-large event just because you have to spend 15 seconds cleaning your front yard once a year.