Sticky note ads stink
Stickie Ads
Frankly it feels to me like you are invading MY space. How long before you have a dozen companies who are willing to give you a bucket of money to get their message on your front page? Will the front page then appear on page 2? The ads now are fairly small. What happens when a good customer, say like Jake Jabs of American Furniture wants a 6 inch ad stuck on the front page and is willing to pay for it?
And how do you put the genie back in the bottle.
You have read several letters to the editor noting that the news content of the Rocky is shrinking, but certainly not the advertisng content.
I think I can predict where this is going. Each week I receive neighborhood “all advertising” papers in my yard or my mailbox. I soon expect one with a headline reading “The Rocky Mountain Ads".
Please reconsider this folly before it really gets out of hand!
This letter has not been edited.
How many letters concerning this subject have been on this blog in the last couple of weeks? Face it, money trumps reader's desires.
Quit subscribing if it bothers you that much. But keep in mind that both the RMN and Denver Post are run by the Denver Newspaper Agency. So if you get the irritating yellow sticky on one, you'll also get it on the other.
The Denver Newspaper is responsible for the business operations, including advertisements, delivery (they hire the illegal immigrants to deliver your paper to your porch), the classifieds, etc. You can run (your mouth in complaint), but you can't hide from their decisions.
Posted by on August 28, 2007 02:09 PMIf you get the paper home delivered, and still pay for it with a check, save all those sticky notes and include them with your payment.
If you get your paper at the box, put them all on the inside of the box. If at the convenience store, plaster them all over the rack the papers are on. Eventually, the outlets will get just as frustrated as the individual, and they will cease. In theory of course.
Posted by Dan2 on August 28, 2007 03:48 PMSome great ideas Dan2, especially sending them all back with your payment.
Better yet, cancel your home delivery if they don't stop with this junk advertising by sending all of those little ads back with a little sticky note telling them to cancel.
Those sticky ads pay to have your paper delivered everyday. Subscription rates don't cover the whole nut they have to pay their illegal immigrants to deliver the paper 365. Drop your subscription and save yourself the annoyance and help force employers of illegals go back to hiring Americans.
Posted by on August 28, 2007 07:21 PMWhat makes you folks think they use illegals to deliver the papers?
Only serious replies please. How do you know this?
Posted by Sharon B. on August 29, 2007 05:23 AMSharon B:--
My husband and I have a route, had it for 5 years in the Denver Metro area. Due to consolidation our route has been moved to4 different Distribution Centers (where we get the papers in the morning, there are about 12 or so). In all of the DC we have been around 75% are illegals. Some of them can even arrange for phony ID for a price. It's like working in Tiajuana.
B
Posted by on August 29, 2007 08:27 AMSharon - see the letter after this one on Imigration. Another delivery guy tells the same story.
Posted by on August 29, 2007 08:31 AMI spend a part of my day trying to hire paper deliverers, sorry Denver is such a mess. We can spot an illegal because of accent, and lack of proper driving license.
Those DC`s have other jobs, inserters, folks who put papers in bags for the drivers, people who carry bundles around for others, lots of jobs in the warehouses. I just want to know if the actual drivers are illegal, not how many hang around the building.
Posted by Sharon B. on August 29, 2007 11:27 AMSharon B
At the Dcs we've worked at they have about 1spotter per district (about 30 or so routes per district) who distribute papers, inserts and such. Most Districts have 1 District Manager and I Asst District Mgr, who are legal since they are regular employees. In Denver we call the drivers carriers and they fold and band or bag their own papers before delivery. About 60 to 75% of the carriers don't speak English or barely passable English. The DMs are constantly running around to have someone translated for them into Spanish. You should send your applicants to our DCs where they can buy on the blackmarket documents needed to get a legal license or even a full set of ID for a few hundred dollars. Most of the illegals buy car insurance one month at a time so after showing a card to sign on they don't pay anymore. If they hit a parked car or something, they just disappear.
We've been doing this for 5 years and it just keeps getting worse. If a route is coming open the DMs start the word around among the illegals to get a friend in the door. It must be easier than having to advertise and look for them. You seem to to it the old fashioned way , honestly and not with a wink of the eye.
Posted by on August 29, 2007 11:44 AMSharon B:--
Where you're at you spot the illegal applicants by their accent. In Denver we spot them because they usually can't speak English and have to have an interpretor for the interview with the DM. Then they have to have someone speak Spanish to train them. But they are also accepted as legal if they have the right looking paperwork. I think you have it easy!
B
Posted by on August 29, 2007 01:29 PMSharon B:--
Where you're at you spot the illegal applicants by their accent. In Denver we spot them because they usually can't speak English and have to have an interpretor for the interview with the DM. Then they have to have someone speak Spanish to train them. But they are also accepted as legal if they have the right looking paperwork. I think you have it easy!
B
Posted by on August 29, 2007 01:30 PMHonest to God, I can`t even get illegals to work. At $10.00 a day that is $300.00 per month on gas, not to mention the ruin of our cars.
This just keeps getting worse and worse.
Good luck on your runs, I havn`t hit anyone yet.
Posted by Sharon B. on August 29, 2007 01:31 PM