Globe Direct - Red Bagged Advertisement Papers

[shana-lyons.livejournal.com]

Has anyone had any luck unsubscribing from Globe Direct? They started to drop red-bagged advertising papers on our porch a few months ago. I've long since gotten sick of picking them up and immediately tossing them. I unsubscribed via the email address on the bag (direct@globe.com) over a month ago and got email confirmation of that unsubscribe. They're still coming. Has anyone else found a way of opting out that works?

If you have magic tricks for getting people to stop leaving menus, cable flyers, and political ads, that would be awesome, too. :) I feel like our porch has become a big dumpster of direct marketing recently. 

Comments

[vonelftinhaus.livejournal.com]

Been where I am now for 8 1/2 years and this will be the third time I have had to cancel/stop them from being delivered- but it has generally worked. The first 2 times I called the 508? number on the paper itself and left a message with my full address, which seemed to do the trick. Then they recently started coming again but lol in force, I found 6 in my front yard, so this time I called the 800 number on the bag itself- waited on hold for a wicked long time but eventually gave my info to an operator. I believe that was about 2 weeks ago and haven't seen any at all- seems like such a waste and would rather sign up for the option than have to stop them from arriving

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

I got a polite email reply saying they'd stop delivering them, but that it might take a few weeks.

I'm not sure if it will actually happen. They used to mail them, which made it easy to take an address off the list. But the red-bagged ones are hand-delivered, which means it's a lot more work to get the delivery guy to skip one house.

[keithn.livejournal.com]

I don't understand how people are legally allowed to walk onto my porch and leave trash on it (or throw it onto my porch from the sidewalk, whatever they are doing). When it was delivered by the postal service that was one thing, as the mailman has every right to walk on my porch and leave mail in the box, but where does the authority to do this come from?

[shana-lyons.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way. It's basically littering. I come home almost every day to someone having thrown something on our porch that we neither asked for nor want. I understand that it's not exactly an earth-shattering problem, but it definitely contributes to the amount of trash I see on the streets and sidewalks each day and generates a lot of paper waste. I'm tempted to write our alderperson and see if anyone's ever considered making this opt-in or something. At least with real direct mail it ends up in my mailbox instead of my yard and I can console myself with the fact that they're subsidizing postal workers carrying mail I may actually want.

Don't even get me started on the phone books. . .

[squirrelitude]

I've gotten in the habit of removing fliers and rubber-banded crap from people's porches as I walk by. Do I have the right to do so? Probably not, but I'm *pretty damn sure* they won't mind.

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

The red bags bother me much more than the delivered-by-mail version did, too. I can't even recycle the @!#$@# bags.

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

I boggles me, too, as to why it's legal for people to throw litter onto my porch. Maybe a letter to the alderpeeps about this?

As for Globe Direct, I happened to be home when the driver was coming through and asked him nicely to please skip our house and I haven't see one since.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Yesterday's delivery seemed especially bad. Walking to and from the playground, I noticed those red-bagged papers all over lawns, in bushes, etc. A few made it onto porches, but more did not. When I got home, there was one in our driveway and another in the neighbor's garden.

That was even more annoying than just having them on the porch. :/

[starry83.livejournal.com]

I live in a condo building with 10 units, and over the last few weeks, more than 50 globe directs are being delivered to us per week -- a huge stack on both Tuesday and Thursday. I've called and spoken to at least 3 people at customer service, and they all have different stories. One told me to call Dawn Paradis at globe direct (http://www.globedirectmail.com/about.html), but I've left her 3 messages, and no response.

I think I will jot a note to our Alderman, and would be happy to take further steps if anyone has any other ideas.

[shana-lyons.livejournal.com]

Ok, I'm inspired now to write my alderperson. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who finds these to be litter.

[shana-lyons.livejournal.com]

I got this email, too. It came 6 weeks ago and they're still coming.

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

There's a presumed right for people to walk up your sidewalk to your front door. If you want to keep people off, put up a no tresspassing sign with suitable instructions. Better, talk to a lawyer and find out what the real rules are.

[courtney o'keefe (from livejournal.com)]

I found this post online and wanted to share it with all of you. Currently, I have a No Soliciting sign on my house and do not receive the amount of deliveries that you all describe.

http://www.volunteerguide.org/minutes/service-projects/junk-mail

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

Pretty much every supermarket has plastic bag recycling.

[courtney o'keefe (from livejournal.com)]

Any retail store that is 5,000 square feet or more has to provide a bin for customers to put their plastic bags in for recycling. This also includes the CVS in Magoun Square.

[spatch]

I get irked when a stranger steps my porch to drop off stuff I don't need; I'd get even more irked if a stranger stepped on my porch to remove stuff they think I don't need. Two wrongs, non-existent right, etc.

[squirrelitude]

Mmm, "porch" was not quite right. This is just arm's-reach stuff that's left loose on the bottom steps or rubber-banded to the fence. I'm not actually going up people's steps or walkways -- and I feel that makes a difference somehow.

My motivation here is to remove litter before it blows around and to deny the advertisers some of their potential audience, not to remove things as a favor to the homeowner. I realize it's a touchy area, though.

[zmook.livejournal.com]

Ditto. I had already called, but it stopped the day I caught the delivery guy and asked him not to bother.

I too consider that the Globe was littering my porch, and don't understand how it can be legal.

[derekp.livejournal.com]

And pretty much every one of the bags in those recycling containers ends up in the trash.

[craigindaville.livejournal.com]

I have tried to email this account multiple times over the years, but it always bounces back as undeliverable. After seeing a few people here post that they got a response (even if a result is still uncertain) I tried again, and got another bounceback. Here's what came back (note that the address they give is not the one I actually entered; I put in direct@globe.com).

"Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

direct@gapps.globe.com

Technical details of permanent failure:
You are not a member of this group, leave request failed."

Anyone else get this?

[vonelftinhaus.livejournal.com]

We just got another on the porch on Saturday- omg it's like a real life troll

[ron_newman]

I'd hesitate to do this, since some folks (including me) actually want and read the weekly supermarket ads.

[ron_newman]

citation please?

[ron_newman]

I thought this discussion sounded familiar, so I looked back through the 'garbage' tag and found these two posts from February 2008. (Probably much too old to be useful, but still amusing.)

globe direct fliers
Cancelling the Globe Direct or its Fliers

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Easy: Legally, it's not trash. You may throw it in the recycling, but legally it's defined as a periodical or something. Also, unless you want to sit on your porch with a shotgun, it's pretty well unenforceable even if it is trespassing.

[kim fletcher (from livejournal.com)]

I have lived at my apartment for over 8 years and have always received the the red bag ads on my porch every week. The last couple of months I have not been receiving them and I am very upset about it and look for them every week but still nothing every week. I am trying to find out how I or we meaning my neighbor can start receiving them again because we look foward to the weekly ads coming????? So if someone can tell me what to do it would greatly appreciated please.....??????