Legal Littering

I see that the Retail Propaganda Nazis have dumped their flyers in my driveway again. I am so tired of cleaning up after them.

I really wouldn't mind it so much if they'd actually put them in the mailbox. Then I could just grab them and toss them out without too much trouble. But no -- they toss them smack-dab in the middle of our very steep driveway, making it virtually impossible to pick them up without making a special trip up-and-down either hill or stairs to do so. By the time we remember to go back and get it, that stupid little plastic packet has been run over at least three times.

Even if they were tossed off to one side or the other, the nature of the driveway still makes it impossible to pick them up. If somehow we could stop the car part-way up the driveway (and then continue to the top after picking up the flyers), the steepness of said driveway means one risks decapitation from the door slamming shut on one's head. And frankly, I don't think that the knowledge that chicken breasts are on sale is really worth that.

I tried leaving the flyers there for a week or so, hoping that whoever delivered them would get the hint that they weren't wanted. I thought it was a great idea -- until the little blue rolled-up packages started to multiply! I figured that, since they were all blue, with no pink, I'd be safe, but apparently not. (Perhaps the neighbours thought I was starting a collection?)

There seems to be no solution here. Some people put a polite "no flyers, please" sign on their door or mailbox, and I would definitely go that route, if I'd had any indication that the Retail Propaganda Nazis would ever see it. But climbing the stairs up to my mailbox seems to be too taxing for them, since they merely toss and run, and I'm not placing a huge sign on my lawn purely for their benefit.

Hmmmm ... Maybe I should save them up and dump them all over the front lawn of the newspaper office?