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I don't know about you, but I hate coming home to take-out menus stuffed in my door, or left on my porch. Oh, if only I lived in New York.
Apparently there's a new law in New York state that any kind of unwanted advertising cannot be left on a property, and the city of New York has just started enforcing it. The property owner will have to post something that specifically states that they don't want the advertisements and that must be highly visible. There's also a whole complaint process that the sanitation department has worked out, and the fines start at $250.
Check out this article in the New York Times City Pages for more information.
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8-04-2008 @4:20PM Almost Vegetarian said... That is too brilliant. Now, if only it was applicable nationwide. And it applied to people, especially the ones that love to solicit for their candidate, usually, while your dinner is growing cold.
Cheers!
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8-04-2008 @5:33PM Liz Petty said... I wish I'd known about that law up until this year! Until my graduation from Syracuse University this past May, I'd lived in New York state my entire life. I always hated those solicitous take-out menus and ads from restaurants, storage companies and organizations that came nearly daily to my door. I would have begun the complaint process four years ago!
Now that I live in Boston, I wonder if there's a similar law in Massachusetts?
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8-04-2008 @7:10PM Hungover Gourmet said... There's a chapter in the hit-or-miss book 'The Fortune Cookie Chronicles' about how the unwanted takeout menu came to be. Not a great book, but sorta enjoyable in its own way. Kinda like Chinese takeout.
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8-05-2008 @11:54AM ABT said... I'm surprised about the specs.
Canada Post has been honouring "no junk mail" requests for 10 years. No specific wording is necessary, just a sign or note by the mail slot or mail box saying something like "No junk mail" or "No flyers". A "please" in there might be appreciated. The mail carriers are glad to have less to carry - or so a mail carrier once told me.
More info here and here.
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8-05-2008 @12:08PM ABT said... Oops, forgot that Slashfood doesn't do links. The links:
http://www.reddotcampaign.ca/
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/302230
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