POA bulletin delivery making a mess

[schwarz]

Just today, driving a few short blocks to get the mail, I picked up close to a dozen bulletins off the street and several lawns of unoccupied homes. Obviously it is worse this season with the birds gone and with the current everyday wind and rains. Perhaps folks should have to sign up to receive one rather than opting out If it is unwanted.

[JohnN]

I do the same thing. I don't have an answer.

[kansasr]

Such third world problems we have to deal with here in The Villages

[JohnN]

Such third world problems we have to deal with here in The Villages

I think the phrase is "first world problems". I'm not complaining, it's no big deal.
Just a waste of paper though. I try to be a good neighbor to the snowbirds nearby.

[Carla B]

It would be nice if your snowbird neighbors would tell the POA to discontinue delivery during their absence. As for me, I just wish it would rain again. Hate having use expensive water.

[Altavia]

It would be nice if your snowbird neighbors would tell the POA to discontinue delivery during their absence. As for me, I just wish it would rain again. Hate having use expensive water.

They don't stop, littering is illegal...

[Gpsma]

Just today, driving a few short blocks to get the mail, I picked up close to a dozen bulletins off the street and several lawns of unoccupied homes. Obviously it is worse this season with the birds gone and with the current everyday wind and rains. Perhaps folks should have to sign up to receive one rather than opting out If it is unwanted.

Thank you for caring. I worry about this all the time..wakes me up at night.

[wisbad1]

I do the same thing. I don't have an answer.
Called them up and told them to stop delivering to my house. Now I get the ones that blow in my yard. Feel like collecting them and dumping them in their front yard.

[Bogie Shooter]

Called them up and told them to stop delivering to my house. Now I get the ones that blow in my yard. Feel like collecting them and dumping them in their front yard.

How is that neighborly?

[mtdjed]

Just today, driving a few short blocks to get the mail, I picked up close to a dozen bulletins off the street and several lawns of unoccupied homes. Obviously it is worse this season with the birds gone and with the current everyday wind and rains. Perhaps folks should have to sign up to receive one rather than opting out If it is unwanted.

I have been here since 2007 and it has been the same and I am sure prior to that. The Villages cannot stop it, and the county doesn't want to face the issue.

So, the issue is caused by the POA. But they are surely aware of the issue and they choose to ignore it. But, they are so interested in criticizing The Villages for their indiscretions that they fail to correct theirs. They could send it by mail but that isn't in their budget. They could have distribution boxes or sites. They could even send by email but then it would be blocked or ignored. Better to litter the streets so that all will know that they are here to protect us.

So, quit complaining, and do your duty and pick up the POA litter.

[tjlee500]

They should change delivery schedule, Eliminate summer deliveries when many are gone.

[Rwirish]

It’s a snowbird issue, they need to take care of it.

[Sandy and Ed]

Just today, driving a few short blocks to get the mail, I picked up close to a dozen bulletins off the street and several lawns of unoccupied homes. Obviously it is worse this season with the birds gone and with the current everyday wind and rains. Perhaps folks should have to sign up to receive one rather than opting out If it is unwanted.
We do the same when we walk the pooch in the morning. Next door neighbors could and should pick up if the house is unoccupied.

[M2inOR]

Stopping delivery and reading online works.

For those wondering how, you can visit their website and turn off delivery of that POA newspaper.

Similarly, for VHA, they dow dedicate a page each month for their newsletter. You can also read it online, or get delivery by email.

[sully1]

If it was a dollar bill, you would have no problem picking it up. See where I’m going with this? Be glad you’re able to bend over and pick it up.

[skippy05]

Start up a new type of service company and petition for it to be funded by new series of bonds on all the existing homes. Picking up litter, dog waste, and in down time scouting out a large parcel for a Costco.

[kendi]

If only that was all anyone had to worry about.

[Pdesensi]

Just today, driving a few short blocks to get the mail, I picked up close to a dozen bulletins off the street and several lawns of unoccupied homes. Obviously it is worse this season with the birds gone and with the current everyday wind and rains. Perhaps folks should have to sign up to receive one rather than opting out If it is unwanted.

Man, you guys are giving snarky replies

[rickaslin]

And whose yard would you dump them in??

[wmcgowan]

what are they?

[charlie1]

Started to write some comments about the POA and what they have become over the last several years but decided that if I can not say anything positive, I should not say anything!

[jump4]

Not a bad suggestion, but I think a bigger problem is the developer/district/DailySun dropping a huge phone book on my driveway every year. I don't want it. I don't need it. I did not order it. Sad to see so many trees and energy wasted on making and delivering those. Minimally it should be online instead of printed.


Just today, driving a few short blocks to get the mail, I picked up close to a dozen bulletins off the street and several lawns of unoccupied homes. Obviously it is worse this season with the birds gone and with the current everyday wind and rains. Perhaps folks should have to sign up to receive one rather than opting out If it is unwanted.

[Wiserbud47]

The POA Bulletin has some useful information in it each month. I would think they would want residents who were interested to read it. That is why it doesn't make sense to continue to pay someone to throw the newspaper in the driveway of every house in the Villages monthly, unless a homeowner specifically requests that it not be delivered. The newspapers blow into the street or get wet from rain or sprinklers. There are many houses that do not have residents home at any given time. Hence you have newspapers that can't be read or won't be read. Yes, it does cause a mess unless you have good neighbors. Newspapers not getting picked up also is a sign no one has been home for awhile. An invitation to an unwanted "guest".

I believe that the POA should be proud of it's publication and want to distribute by subscription as is done with the Daily Sun. It can still be free if they wish, but the resident should say they want it delivered. Then the delivery person could bring it up to the door so it stays dry,

[villagetinker]

Recently the Daily Sun has started giving free copies of the paper (to get more customers), I called to complain as there are a few empty houses in the area, and seeing several papers outside of the houses is an open invitation that the home is not occupied. They did not seem to care.

I have been picking up these papers for around a week, and I see some other neighbors are doing the same if they get there first.

NOTE: these papers are apparently going only to NON subscribers, we do not get a second paper, and a neighbors that I know stopped the paper is not getting one.

[schwarz]

If it was a dollar bill, you would have no problem picking it up. See where I’m going with this? Be glad you’re able to bend over and pick it up.

The trouble sir is that not enough folks want to pick them up...and many are rain soaked and laying in the street...

[schwarz]

Not a bad suggestion, but I think a bigger problem is the developer/district/DailySun dropping a huge phone book on my driveway every year. I don't want it. I don't need it. I did not order it. Sad to see so many trees and energy wasted on making and delivering those. Minimally it should be online instead of printed.
Agree completely...plus we no longer have recycling

[EdFNJ]

If it was a dollar bill, you would have no problem picking it up. See where I’m going with this? Be glad you’re able to bend over and pick it up.
Nahhh, $5 bill or more. In these inflationary times $1 isn't worth expending the energy. :jester:

[wisbad1]

How is that neighborly?

I didn’t retire here to pick up their trash.

[Pairadocs]

Such third world problems we have to deal with here in The Villages

LOL, yes you're point is taken. However, maybe it would be a good idea if there was a place those of us who do belong to the POA or want the bulletin could sign up, rather than waste so many of them. We who want the bulletin do the same on our block, we pick up so many that blow in our yards and/or in the gutters, bushes, etc.

[Mulliganguy]

I went online and selected online copy only over a year ago and I’m still getting paper in my driveway

[Tenmoss79]

If they were dollar bills, the snowbirds would find a solution.

[SHPayne]

Same here. We signed up for online copies when we arrived in 2019 and we have indicated the same when we've renewed, but we still get the papers in the driveway.

I went online and selected online copy only over a year ago and I’m still getting paper in my driveway

[Bill14564]

Same here. We signed up for online copies when we arrived in 2019 and we have indicated the same when we've renewed, but we still get the papers in the driveway.

It is working for me - no driveway delivery.

Log into the site and check your Bulletin Delivery setting. Does it say "eb" for email only or does it say ebdw for both?

If the settings are correct but the delivery is wrong then perhaps use the Membership Help Desk and ask them to fix it.

[SHPayne]

Yep, verified "Bulletin Delivery Preference" in our POA profile is "E-Bulletin". Sent a message to the Membership Help Desk, so we'll see. Fortunately, we are permanent and it's not that big of a deal, but we wonder how many members, snowbirds or not, have selected "E-Bulletin" and are still getting physical papers.

We do home watch for over 60 homes and we pick the papers up out of the driveways for pretty much all of them. We notify our clients that they are getting them, but we don't know how many are members, how many are not members, and how many are supposed to have E-Bulletins only.

It is working for me - no driveway delivery.

Log into the site and check your Bulletin Delivery setting. Does it say "eb" for email only or does it say ebdw for both?

If the settings are correct but the delivery is wrong then perhaps use the Membership Help Desk and ask them to fix it.