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Originally Posted by redwitch
I'm not sure what the point is. I imagine that probably one in a thousand reads the ads, the rest trash them. This has pretty much always been the case, including the waste of money to print and mail them. Today, you can pretty much say the same for political ads on TV -- we can quickly skim through them with our DVDs and DVRs.
Is it a waste of money? Yes and no. Most have pretty much made up their minds how they will vote (if it at all) long before the candidates are known or shortly after. A few, however, do read anything and everything they can about the candidates -- those are the ones targeted by the brochures. So, they can make a difference.
Personally, I'm more upset that the ads end up in the trash rather than in recycling.
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Excellent points Red
Today we biked over to the mailbox, been a month since last visit.
Because we didn't bring the backpack nor rack, we were tempted to chuck the 10# of junk mail in the can.
We brought it home to recycle- the can was already over flowing (Bel Aire)
And we don't ever throw paper 'away'
So we stuffed it in our shorts and brought it home to recycle
By virtue of stuffing mailboxes with overly slick that is an automatic 'con' for any candidate's pro/con balance
An Ocala car dealer and Television hearing aid product were huge culprits this
week.
With a little respect for some of the commentary and straying topicality of
troops and freedom,
It would be more responsible to save the billions that get very wasted on
paper consumption, deforestation, fuel costs for delivery, and associated
cost...and put it into more responsible usage.
In TV alone we estimate tons and tons of paper tossed into landfill weekly.
We were glad to see the Lions Club aluminum recycling receptacles at the mail center. But there were no can dispensing machines nearby, but hundreds of mailboxes churning out enough paper to save more trees than most might imagine.
http://www.astc.org/exhibitions/rotten/away.htm
A simple receptacle would be a great place to start.
We noticed a POA article about The Village Greens, perhaps they could include this in an agenda item, and hopefully help.
Like them we like trees and more of them.
L and L