I quite like junk mail. One of the few negatives about our first experience of living in a high density dwelling is the lack of advertising material placed in our letterbox. Each of the four units has a "NO JUNK MAIL" sign next to the hole, and just in case you don't get the idea a giant "NO JUNK MAIL" sign stretching the length of the boxes. Our street must have a bunch of junk mail haters because some advertisers have taken to a tactic not often seen on residential streets - placing their flyers underneath our windscreen wiper blades. I expect my landlord is secretly planning some way of incorporating a "NO JUNK MAIL" sign onto his vehicle.
Apart from the obvious larger retail chains, local takeaway establishments and pest controllers, it seems that Christians are one of the more likely candidates to letterbox drop you. I know I've done my fair share of kilometres of sidewalk* strolling. At Cumberland Uni Church we usually got a response rate of about 6 people per thousand flyers. It may have been a sign of the spiritual need in the area considering the response rate in Carlingford is usually about 1 per thousand. It was from one of these flyer drops that the now infamous incident occurred where a visitor was relieved to find out we were a university church rather than unitarian.
The big dilemma when letter box dropping is should you put church advertising into a letterbox marked "NO JUNK MAIL"? My logic is that it's not junk so it's fine. That said I'm not certain I managed to convince myself at the time that this was acceptable.
*My two worst Americanisms are calling rubbish 'trash' and calling the footpath the 'sidewalk' or 'pavement'
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