Getting Rid of Unwanted Flyers

**Goliard** · 10-20-2012, 11:06 PM

If, like me, you are tired of dealing with all the paper flyers and menus and so on that certain businesses dump on your doorstep, you may find the following to be useful. The Patch included this article recently, which contains a convenient link to the form you need to get one of those "Circular-Free-Property" decals. In theory, this allows the city to fine any business that continues to dump flyers after you post your decal. Don't know how well it works in the end, but hey.

Here's the link to the article, which has the correct link to the form at the very beginning: Circular Hell

It is a simple form, and you can FAX it in if you like: easy peasy.

**roxyfoxy** · 10-21-2012, 03:41 PM

The flyers, circulars, etc. don't bother me as much as the fact that some residents will leave them on the ground outside their houses for MONTHS, and are just too lazy to pick them up and put them in the recyclables. The supermarket circulars especially are on the ground so long in some spots that they turn to PULP, and get slippery and dangerous, and they still don't get picked up and thrown out.

**carsonbaker** · 10-21-2012, 06:08 PM

Originally Posted by roxyfoxy

The flyers, circulars, etc. don't bother me as much as the fact that some residents will leave them on the ground outside their houses for MONTHS, and are just too lazy to pick them up and put them in the recyclables. The supermarket circulars especially are on the ground so long in some spots that they turn to PULP, and get slippery and dangerous, and they still don't get picked up and thrown out.

hey, i'd rather have these any day than the brand new tire that's been sitting on the corner of green lane and st. david's for three weeks now... i almost broke my neck tripping over that thing last week (and yes, I have tried to move it and place it on the stoop of the home that it is right next to).

**PhillyTex** · 10-22-2012, 09:52 AM

Many homeowners in the city are simply ignorant to the fact that it is their responsibility to deal with the crap that ends up on their property, and the fact that the sidewalks in front of their property are also their responsibility. Yeah, it sucks that there are so many junk mail spammers, litterbugs, etc. so it's a constant chore to clean up after them. But once you bite the bullet and just accept that you have to spend 30 seconds on trash day picking up the junk and tossing it in your bin, life gets a lot easier for everyone. The streets department will gladly take it away, they just won't gather it all up for you.

Of course there are others who know it's their responsibility, but still choose to stage a protest and just subject themselves and their neighbors to squalor because it's not their "fault". There's not much you can do with people that think that way.

**Debbie1125** · 10-22-2012, 11:05 AM

Agree with Roxy Foxy and Philly Tex.

What is so difficult about picking up the circulars/flyers, etc. and placing them in your trash or recycle bin? This is what I do when I don't want them. It doesn't even take a minute.

I think with many people it's just laziness and they don't care how dirty the sidewalk looks. This applies to homeowners as well as renters.

**Jayfar** · 10-22-2012, 11:13 AM

My former landlord once told me that he had actually sometimes received trash citations at his buildings for circulars left on the steps.

**Speedy Creek** · 10-22-2012, 11:49 AM

I have one of those decals and they don't work. I still get one or 2 flyers a week.

**mixiboi** · 10-22-2012, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by Speedy Creek

I have one of those decals and they don't work. I still get one or 2 flyers a week.

If you report the flyers you get, the city will fine the places and they will stop...

**Speedy Creek** · 10-22-2012, 12:03 PM

I know. I just throw them out though. I always think to save and report them but then I see them again in my house and just throw them out. It's lazy, I know. I thought the decal would work, and maybe it does cut down on the number I get. But I can't see how it can work for the bagged supermarket circulars because the decal is on my front door which is 2 sets of steps away from the street. I think the bags are just tossed from the street.