No junk mail means just that

Does anyone else have this problem?

We have letterbox signage at our residences that clearly indicate that no unaddressed or advertising material or junk mail is to be put in our boxes.

Despite this, we regularly receive annoying flyers from real estate agents, pizza delivery companies etc on a regular basis.

Complaints to the relevant businesses always result in the pathetic excuse that the problem is with the independent delivery agent.

In Point Clare there is a pamphlet delivery man who rides a motor bike who ignores the signage and continually puts promotional material in our boxes.

This week, it was for a local real estate agent.

I saw him in the act and attempted to speak to him about his disregard (and disrespect) to our letter box signs.

He knew he was in the wrong and refused to speak to me.

Instead, he accelerated his motorbike and took off around the corner … and in doing so, failed to deliver material to other houses as he is paid to do.

I again contacted the estate agent who, despite being shown photos of our letterbox signs, offered the novel excuse that “no junk mail signs can be confusing and they can mean people will accept flyers but not bulky material”. Really?

So much for the local residents who are fed up with more useless and unwanted paper advertising being forced on them.

Email, May 26 Gary MacDonald, Point Clare is laughable and at worst will put the Coast’s ratepayers in debt for many years to come.

Next year when the new councillors are elected, hopefully we will remember that the dire financial situation which the waterfront will cause is not of their making.

The Administrator waxed lyrical recently that after a soccer match at the stadium the crowds would be able to swarm over to the new waterfront and have a night of revelry.

Oh dear me, can you just imagine that.

Email, May 26 Geoff Mitchell, Kariong

I write in reference to the letter in Forum CCN392.

I am a disabled 80 year old living in Wyoming.

My local Coles has also shut its express aisle. There are four checkouts, one of which is blocked by a trolley and one (the disabled one) is usually unmanned.

So, the queues for the other two are long.

There seems to be only a few members of staff in the whole store.

What happened to the other members of staff? Have they been sacked?

I now only shop once a fortnight with my carer/ shopper, who will only go through a checkout, like me, and also refuses on principle, to go through the unmanned checkouts.

Life is not easier for the customers, it is very frustrating.

Email, May 26 Fiona Nicholas, Wyoming