Mosetter wrote:
> > Maybe spruce hill should enforce the hundreds s of violators that daily
> > bombard our mail boxes already.

William wrote:
> All you have to do is complain to the Postal Inspectors at 30th street,
> or contact L&I for the "Circular Free decal."

Be forewarned, however: if you post the "Circular Free decal" you cannot get
*any* freely delivered community information, *in any way* on your property.
That includes the University City Review and it includes community groups
notifying you of impending meetings on widespread community concerns. In
other words, you can't make discriminate between stuff that annoys you when
you get it and stuff that annoys you when you *don't* get it.

It is your right to limit the delivery of materials to your private
property. However, I would remind anti-leafleters that you can't have your
cake and eat it! If you grumble because people attempt to communicate to
your home about pizza deliveries or public meetings in your area, you can
try to cut yourself off from all such people. But in doing so, you can no
longer grumble about the failure of people to consult with the community or
alert residents when something comes up that you later wish they had
notified you about. You can try to isolate yourself from the unruly city
around you, or you can remain open to its constant blur of outreach and sift
through the stuff that rains upon your doorstep in good humor.

I recommend the latter approach. "Circular Free" decals are bad for civic
communication. A neighborhood with too many of them will be a neighborhood
that's poor at talking to itself.

-- Tony West



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