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Phone books more headache than they’re worth

Dear mayor and council: One year ago, I told the telephone directory people that I did not want the phone book delivered to me. For multiple reasons: No. 1: They just dump it at the end of my driveway.
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Why can’t the person who delivers phone books use a mail box, this letter-writer wonders. File photo.
Dear mayor and council:

One year ago, I told the telephone directory people that I did not want the phone book delivered to me. For multiple reasons: 

No. 1: They just dump it at the end of my driveway. This causes litter, and if it happens to snow, the blessed thing gets buried. The result being that the book could damage the snow blower.

No. 2: People, including myself, could be away. Flyers, newspapers, telephone books and catalogues just dumped at the end of the driveway is a dead giveaway that no one is home — come in house breakers. Snowbirds are heading south!

No. 3: I have a perfectly functional mail box, so that items can be left and easily and safely retrieved.

No. 4: Too often these phone books end up in the roadway, they get damaged and destroyed causing litter around neighbourhoods.

I guess there is a local contractor who is paid big bucks to deliver the phone books.

This clown is too lazy to deliver them. Instead, they just drive down the middle of the road and heave them out of their vehicle window, trusting to luck to hit the right place.

This was done in the dead of night in my neighbourhood, no doubt they did not want to be seen.

Anyone know what outfit is contracted to deliver the phone books around town?

Time to stop the practice of dumping material in people’s driveways.

I would dearly love to have a chat with that outfit. Maybe there should a bylaw to prevent this form of unsolicited “dumping” of phone books and other material at the end of driveways.

Further, the current editions of these phone books have such small print that a magnifying glass is required to read the numbers.

Lionel Rudd
Sudbury