I decided that I needed to follow up on “the newspaper situation” and yes, it has been upgraded from a “minor irritation” to a “situation.” On Friday, August 29 at approximately 8:30 AM, I first reported my minor irritation with the delivery of duplicate copies of two different major Salt Lake papers on this blog. It began sporadically for the last few weeks but then for an entire week straight we received the unwelcome deliveries. When I finally decided to catch the newspaper littering bandit in the act and woke up early enough to catch him, we stopped receiving the deliveries. I was relieved because it saved me from having to make a phone call to complain. But as soon as we thought we were in the clear, the papers showed up again last Thursday and Friday. So on Friday, I made the dreaded call. Luckily, the customer service representative I spoke with was competent and spoke English (which is fortunate these days). She asked for my name, address, and phone number and confirmed that we indeed did not have a subscription to either paper, let alone two for each. She insisted the delivery agency just must be delivering them to the wrong house. I agreed but I still question the logic in whoever is delivering the papers to our house. I consider myself a fairly logical person. I also try to give others the benefit of the doubt and assume they are logical people as well. So here I will begin a study in logic. Please correct me if you find any errors in my logic.
1. Our house is the only house on our block that faces north. Therefore, there are no other driveways in proximity to ours. Thus, the confusion on which house to deliver the papers to should be significantly reduced.
2. Perhaps, the delivery person has dyslexia and has the wrong address. However, I don't think the reverse of our address exists.
3. Wouldn’t a red flag go up, if you were delivering 4 newspapers to one house? And then maybe a huge red flashing light go off if you were delivering duplicate copies to the same house? If it were me, I would check a master list of my delivery route. Just an idea.
4. Isn’t there someone or several people missing their papers??? Shouldn’t they be the ones calling demanding to know where their paper is? They are actually paying for it. So I am assuming someone has been reporting their missing paper(s), so don’t you think someone would try to figure out where they are going wrong with the delivery?
Now, I will end my study in logic to continue with the exciting conclusion of the “situation.” I was told by the customer service representative for the papers that they would contact the manager in charge of our area to let them know of the problem. Whew. I was relieved that I wouldn’t have to clean papers off my driveway every morning anymore. Then, we went out of town and came back to 8 wonderful surprises. I tried doing the right thing by calling and reporting the problem but what am I supposed to do now?
2 comments:
Hahaha! You are seriously the funniest person ever. Hands down. It sounds to me like you and Neil need to organize a stakeout. :)
So sorry about all this newspaper business. It has taken over your mind to the point of totally over-shadowing the AWESOME BYU FOOTBALL SEASON!
You could put a large sign on your driveway- NO NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTION at this address. Barring that, you could have Neil deposit the bundle on someone else's driveway on his way to school each morning and let them figure it out. In fact, he could choose a different driveway each week and maybe the customer service rep will get enough phone calls that they will finally fire the delivery person. OR, if customer service has an email address, send mutliple emails daily with photo of growing newspaper pile. OR, wet the newspapers, roll them tightly into 'logs', dry them and stack them for emergency fuel in case of power outage. We used to do that with our used newspapers. When I was in primary, we learned how to fold newspaper to line waste baskets. OR you could shred them into confetti and deposit them on the steps of the newspaper office. OR, tear them into strips and go into the business of making pinatas.
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