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Green Living: Mouse traps for leafletters?

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    • CommentAuthorJackyR
    • CommentTimeSep 17th 2008 edited
     
    Some days my street is a just a row of open letterflaps, neatly wedged by the cunning leafletters - who must be either a) getting a backhander from energy companies to sabotage draught-proofing, or merely b) spawn of the devil.

    Ignoring for a mo the intrinsic waste of print/paper/petrol in unsolicited advertising, has anyone any good ideas on What To Do?
    • CommentAuthorTheDoctor
    • CommentTimeSep 17th 2008
     
    swinging axe behind the door?
    • CommentAuthortony
    • CommentTimeSep 17th 2008
     
    External letterbox with a key

    It cant be green to have a letterbox left open.
    • CommentAuthorStuartB
    • CommentTimeSep 17th 2008
     
    How about a small shock? After the postie has been hook a battery up to your letter box, they won't try again! In fact, to make it worth your while why don't you film it and send it to You've Been Framed and get yourself £250? :bigsmile:
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    Not as cheap as a battery but a Jack Russell is a good deterrent.
    • CommentAuthorJackyR
    • CommentTimeSep 17th 2008
     
    Mother-out-of-law's Yorkie was a dab paw: post/papers were never left dangling. But they did need a certain amount of drying and reconstruction...
    • CommentAuthorJackyR
    • CommentTimeSep 18th 2008
     
    That's given me an idea. An internal letter-catcher, but in smart wood with glass(?) panel, air-tight to the door? Guys, we can market this!
    • CommentAuthortony
    • CommentTimeSep 18th 2008
     
    I m in for my share of the profits
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    Really, we all need porches or internal draft lobbies as well because too many people stand around in open doorways chatting with the heating on (one of my pet hates).
    • CommentAuthorRosie
    • CommentTimeSep 19th 2008
     
    As somebody who has spent weeks and weeks voluntarily delivering (small) Green Party leaflets I would not necessarily be into any of that! I have already had my fair share of grazed knuckles and dog bites.
    Shocking though, the amount of houses where a gust of warm air comes straight out. What is wrong with those spring-loaded ones that close on their own? Agree with porches and gas-bagging on door steps!
    • CommentAuthorRosie
    • CommentTimeSep 19th 2008
     
    Oh yes, on the continent they often have external letter boxes with a key. Much easier really. I also recomment a "No Junk Mail sticker" and registering with the mailing preference service
    • CommentAuthorJackyR
    • CommentTimeSep 19th 2008
     
    Postie (re MPS) isn't the problem - he's a pro! It's the pizza-guys, who wedge my spring flap open with their rolled up rubbish. Do you think "No Junk Mail" stickers work? Today's pair of leafletters didn't speak English...

    We've been tempted by an external box, but that would have specific problems for me. No, definitely gonna get a nice internal box :cool:
    • CommentAuthorRosie
    • CommentTimeSep 21st 2008
     
    The MPS cuts down the amount of paper wasted and rubbish to sort through though. I reckon the stickers work but you will never stop every leafleter.

    Maybe a complaint to the pizza shop?? Do it a few times using a different voice, he he!
    • CommentAuthorTheDoctor
    • CommentTimeSep 22nd 2008
     
    The delivery of Junk Mail provides welcome starter-fuel for the stove, as i never buy a newspaper.
    (newspapers are a whole other issue for wasted paper!)

    we are registered with the MPS - has dropped, but not completely
    all our junk comes via the postie. No pizza boys / random delivery types ever make it up our way!
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      CommentAuthormrswhitecat
    • CommentTimeSep 23rd 2008 edited
     
    http://www.twobadmice.com/index.asp?a=Alison%20Friend&c=Cards%20Two%20Bad%20Mice&p=2

    I saw this 'waiting for postie' card JackyR and thought of you ...
    • CommentAuthorJackyR
    • CommentTimeSep 23rd 2008 edited
     
    Oh I *have* to get that for Other Half! Thank you! :bigsmile:

    Paperboy's revenge: Yorkie yapping, well-aimed *thunk*, sudden silence... Alas, she regained conciousness unreformed.:tongue:
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    The brute - clearly paperboy flunked / has no patience for 'dog-whispering'.
    • CommentAuthorJackyR
    • CommentTimeSep 25th 2008
     
    Afraid Other Half applauded the paperboy, having grown up under the Yorkie's tyrannical paw. And they're built of gurr-ders, you know.

    OH also established, by experiment, that Yorkie remained clamped to newspaper whatever angle you held it at (newspaper, that is, not dog). He wasn't a bad child (so he claims), just the sort that grew up to carry screwdrivers in his shirt pocket...
    • CommentAuthorJackyR
    • CommentTimeOct 9th 2008
     
    Posted By: JackyR An internal letter-catcher, but in smart wood with glass(?) panel, air-tight to the door?

    Well that failed.

    Tests have shown that leafletters run to two extremes:
    (a) wedge the flap open (pref w leaflet rolled, to ensure tube through any brush draft-excluders)
    (b) force item through horizontally at all costs, with extra welly to remove that pesky obstacle behind the door.

    Sophistications like angling the Thomson's Directory when they meet an obstruction are apparently beyond them...

    Fortunately it was just my cardboard & tape mock-up, cos this guy would've ripped screws out. I sat in the living room watching (and listening to the tearing sounds). Since I really don't think I can manage with an external box, it'll just have to be the draught. :cry:
    • CommentAuthorludite
    • CommentTimeOct 9th 2008
     
    What about the sort of thing Blockbusters have for returning dvd's after hours? Its a sort of big box, with a flapping shutter and a 'drain' , I suppose in case any one wants to use it as a toilet or set fire to the building?
    • CommentAuthorJackyR
    • CommentTimeOct 9th 2008
     
    A "through the wall" jobby?
    • CommentAuthorludite
    • CommentTimeOct 9th 2008
     
    I guess that's what it is. You could insulate it, make it as big or small as you wanted. . . . . . . .

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