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Originally Posted by Jima64
Considering the billioms of pieces handled by people and machines every year they do a pretty good job. Taking the time to put your magazine in a bag so it can continue to you is a great example.
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The Consumer Reports was already in a plastic bag as they had a Final Issue provided by them with an envelop for renewing the subscription.
I am just noting this incident in case there is more to it but my gut tells me that this is nothing to worry about at all. My father just tried to read the issue and then gave up in frustration and it went out this morning in the recycling. He did seem a little upset. They have given me a roof over my head along with at least a chance to voice my opinions via various media. We did have some very serious worries about selling the Palm Harbor house following the 3-02-2004 lawsuit threat from the Palm Harbor Library General Counsel as that library has about 100 volunteers more or less as well as Gene Coppola around that time was the Palm Harbor Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce. We did get the house sold and were very happy to move to the Villages out of what was kind of Coppolaville back in 2005. My fight with Coppola was that he was lying about the Palm Harbor Library having a link to the Florida Victim Services Directory.
Victim Services Directory I had managed to get one linked up for a few years but then they removed it for just one to Lemon Laws. I guess they did not want to advertise that Palm Harbor had other problems like domestic violence, burglaries, robberies and the like. Coppola insisted this was a link to the Florida Victim Services Directory. So, the 3-02-2004 lawsuit threat was his attempt to settle the matter with his often bullying management style. There are thugs running libraries. Some very nice people too but libraries have their nasty people as does any profession.
I had volunteered in the two public libraries in Palm Harbor for 10-14 hours per week in 2000 through 2003. These are East Lake Community Library and Palm Harbor Library both under the final say of Gene Coppola at that time. I had wanted to get a foot in the door to work in a public library in Florida using my MA in Librarianship and Information Management from the University of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management (Class of 1984) but never got anywhere with finding any kind of employment. I am usually a very easy going and friendly person but had problems with Gene Coppola from the first time I met him in 2000. These were of his making.
I did get an invitation along with my mother who had volunteered much longer at the Palm Harbor Library than I did for a celebration for the retiring Head of Volunteers at Palm Harbor Library Jeanette Malouf. This is coming up soon in 2015 but my father nor I wanted us to go. Gene Coppola is still the Director at Pam Harbor Library and is now the President of the Florida Library Association. He is a savvy politician knowing whom to kick and who coddle. I give him that. Other than suing and blacklisting volunteers and some other actions....
As far as the librarians here in the Villages I have never had any reason to complain about any of them. I no longer feel any desire to volunteer in a library after my experiences with Gene Coppola in Palm Harbor in 2000 through 2005 or so but the librarians at Lake and Sumter County libraries have always been friendly and professional with me and my parents. I also have not been pushing my 224 613 Project all that hard at least not locally. I also really admire what the Morse family has done with the Villages' development.