Same Time Next Year
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It’s been nearly a year since I wrote about the problems that come from
having 11 bosses who are not on the same page about anything, as well as
suggestion...
6 months ago
January 27, 2011
Telegram
Can I make a suggestion? Second time this winter, we have lost a snow blower pin to a newspaper under the snow. I know people want their newspapers but maybe the Telegram should hold off delivery while it is snowing? At the very least the newspaper will be on top of the snow not buried where you can not see it?
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One morning I was walking the dog, and I saw the carrier throwing papers out the car window, except one house where he stopped, got out, and walked up to the door to put the paper inside.
I told him I would subscribe if he was willing to drop the paper on my doorstep the same way. He did, and I did.
When the new carrier started throwing it in the driveway again, I let it expire. I wasn't reading it much anyway.
Steve grabbed my point! I'd LOVE to have actual "HOME" delivery.
I gave up my paper route immediately after the blizzard of 78.
After I climbed up a little old lady's walkway, literally up to my armpits in snow, she complained that I was late.
I too have some complaints about my delivery. I have missed a few papers in the last month or so. Today I dont think it came at all.
I tend to empathize with the plight of the carriers during teh recent winter conditions.... yes I do have a heart sometimes :) I had a Sinday route ...no way I was getting up before school 6 days week to deliver teh T&G morning daily paper... I had 210 customers...then i gave my cousin 1/2 of them...$.04 a copy....and the Sunday paper was always huge (thick).
I know my carrier pulls up in front of my crib, opens his drivers side window, and w/his left hand tosses the paper over the car roof and hopefully onto my walkway.
Be kind to your carrier...even if he misses your delivery a few times, Shame on u meanies :)
Bill a newspaper will shear teh Snowblower pin...HUh? Wow....woulda thot the auger and blower would eat right through it.
Man am I beat tonight....i spent 5 hrs, on & off shoveling today and I got maybe 3hrs more tomorrow. Yes i am currently in violation of the shovleing ordinace.
Tracey, some heads should roll at Goddard. If anyone ever pulled this kinda baloney in any job I ever worked at,
a. the security dept would escort them to their office,
b. tell them to empty out their desks,
c. escort them to payroll dept to pick thier last paycheck and acrrued vacation time,
d. take their office keys,
e. escort them to their cars,
f. and then escort their car off company property.
FWIW, I never worked for the gub'mint
Jahn
I feel for the delivery people also. All I am saying is that maybe the Telegram should consider a delay also versus trying to deliver during a snow storm....
Should the snowbloer rip the newspaper? Or does not? What can I tell you.
Bill
Jahn
I feel for the delivery people also. All I am saying is that maybe the Telegram should consider a delay also versus trying to deliver during a snow storm....
Should the snowbloer rip the newspaper? Or does not? What can I tell you.
Bill
OK bill, when Tracey calls a 2 hr delay for school, your T&G carier will be allowed a 2 hr delay. :)
I never owned a snowblower, but the day may soon be near. This gotta be worse January I can recall??????
What was the official snowfall here. I swear it has to be around 13 inches. Hard to tell sometimes, given the drifting
Ben franklin bookstore closing soon? Add to list :(
Kinda sad reading that story about a local retail outlet.
Item from yesterday's Telegram:
"Telegram & Gazette to outsource its home delivery"
The whole idea of printing news on paper and physically delivering it to your front lawn still seems ridiculous in this age.
Again speaking of teh T&G, a piece today about unshovled hydrants. The reporter evidently dimed up the WFD spokesperson........and in keeping with being T&G'esque......the reporter failed to ask the most obvious of all questions.
One question she did ask is who is responsible for clearing out the hydrants........WFD spokesperson said ......"everyone".....interesting so what's the next most obvious question that even a kid workign on their huigh school newspaper should asK?
A Framed $5 bill to the blogger who answers this question correctly. I shall be teh sole adjudicator of which respondents most correctly answer the question. All decisions of THE adjudicator are final. T&G emplopyees, city employees, their relatives, and WM, Jr may not particpate. :)
This must be a 100% solo effort by any of the bloggers/responders. ( I aint runnin' Goddard school here)
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