If you’re one of the poor sods charged with delivering catalogs and promotional flyers across Australia, it seems like the job is really a lose-lose.
You’re either lazy, as witnessed by Stacey in Brisbane…
or, as noted by Briyah in Sydney, you’re an illiterate prick.
related: This!! Is how!! You know!! We mean it!!!
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#1
Betch
Hey lady, learn to use proper grammar and punctuation and display a sign that ISN’T halfway concealed underneath a wrought iron fence and covered in lichen, and perhaps the mailman will actually be able to read it.
Also, isn’t it a federal crime to toss someone’s mail without them having access to it first, or does that law not exist in Australia?
Oct 18, 2010 at 8:28 pm rating: 19
#2
amy
Junk mail isn’t delivered by the postman here in Australia. It’s done by companies who hire people to deliver catalogues etc to people’s houses, and they’re not supposed to put them in the mailboxes which say no junk. It’s not “real” mail, and most of it is annoying and useless.
Oct 18, 2010 at 8:33 pm rating: 7
#3
noddy
In Australia, junk mail isn’t actually sent through the postal system. Catalogues, flyers and the like are delivered by independent contractors, and it’s generally considered courteous to not leave them in the letter box if there is a “No Junk Mail” sign displayed.
However, there’s some junk mail deliverers who will leave catalogues despite the signs, and the charmers who just chuck it all over your driveway and garden.
Oct 18, 2010 at 8:33 pm rating: 8
#4
aussie
Junk Mail is generally unaddressed mail (catalogues and flyers) . I’m not sure if we have that law – but because it is unaddressed , junk mail would not be affected by it .
Oct 18, 2010 at 8:34 pm rating: 0
#5
Alissa H.
I actually sign up for “junk mail”. I love getting free samples and coupons and would be kinda sad if the mailman didn’t deliver them.
Oct 18, 2010 at 8:39 pm rating: 5
#6
Canthz_B
“NO JUN MA”?
Maybe the letter-carrier just doesn’t know Chinese or something.
No reason to go Postal on them.
Oct 18, 2010 at 8:57 pm rating: 12
#7
Maas
There is something disturbingly pointless about writing “learn to read”.
But who am I to judge, after all, I scream at deaf people in an attempt to get them to listen to me.
Oct 18, 2010 at 9:36 pm rating: 32
#8
Cizzerhand
The ghouls of the Haunted Mansion have repeatedly requested that you not litter their tombs with pizza flyers and take-out menus.
Pricks.
Oct 18, 2010 at 9:52 pm rating: 1
#9
Honus
Personally, I like a good junk mail dick every now and again.
Oct 18, 2010 at 10:40 pm rating: 2
#10
Dr. Ken
In America, we know better than to swear at postal workers because they like to come to work with guns and go nuts. In fact, “going postal” was added to the dictionary. Shit you not.
Oct 18, 2010 at 11:29 pm rating: 4
#11
Walker, "Tex" (a stranger)
No Junk Mail Dicks? Is that the opposite gender’s version of a Mail Order Bride?
Oct 19, 2010 at 12:12 am rating: 12
#12
WMDKitty
Yanno, I don’t think the mail carrier really has a say in what’s delivered. They’re just paid to deliver it, regardless.
Oct 19, 2010 at 1:31 am rating: 1
#13
whipoorwill
No junk mail dicks… as opposed to general delivery 1′st class mail dicks???
Oct 19, 2010 at 7:29 am rating: 0
#14
Nightfire
“Learn to read you pricks no. Junk mail.”
Hmm.. Seems s/he might be saying no to pricks but to go ahead and put the junk mail there.
Oct 19, 2010 at 10:17 am rating: 2
#15
pony girl
This is in Australia, why don’t they just leave a salty out by the mailbox?
That’ll learn ‘em.
Oct 19, 2010 at 1:04 pm rating: 2
#16
Mo®
To hell with you Ed McMahon get offa my lawn!
Oct 19, 2010 at 1:14 pm rating: 1
#17
pegolasgreenleaf
If I were a mail carrier:
#1. would see their junk mail strewn about all willy-nilly on a daily basis; and,
#2. would be the proud recipient of the entire neighborhood’s junk mail.
Oct 19, 2010 at 2:37 pm rating: 2
#18
claw71
In the US we have extended a nervous respect to our postal carriers. This is because many of us grew up in the era where the expression “going postal” was coined. Today the younger crowd doesn’t really understand it, but they use it anyway, much in the way they understand that banjo music is a prelude to forced male-on-male sodomy.
In the 80s a staggering number of people employed in the US Postal service were Vietnam veterans and they were unstable at best. The stress of dealing with endless lines of people trying to send Holiday packages pushed many to snap and shoot up the office to which they were assigned. The carriers who delivered mail to your door were bipolar and subject to sudden busrts of violent rage.
I had an edgy carrier back in my college years. He refused to deliver our mail and when I asked him why he told me that he didn’t ahve to tell me. I called the local postal depot. After countless hours on hold, I got his supervisor and was told that our carrier couldn’t get to our mailbox because we were storing bicycles on our porch. I checked the porch and saw one bicyle chained to a swing on the opposite side of the porch from the letter box. I told the supervisor this and he said that we must have moved it.
That’s when I played hard ball. I told him that I would take pictures of the porch every day for the next five years and send them directly to the Postmaster General if I didn’t start getting my mail. I made it clear that I was a young punk whose rich parents were willing to pay his tuition for the better part of a decade and that I supplemented their stipend with drug sales. I had the time and the resources to make good on my promise.
It worked, and startign the next dayI got my mail every day. I was also confronted by my letter carrier who told me the minute I looked at him cross-eyed he would gut me like a fish and feed me to stray dogs. Before he could follow through on this threat, he had a massive heart attack and was replaced with a young black guy who didn’t care what was in the way. Of course the black dude was terrified of anything on four legs.
Fortunately Vietnam took a toll on most of these guys and few of them are still alive. Those who remain are in nursing homes drooling on their Jello. Hopefully the younger generation can shake themselves free of the aura of fear we have for postal workers and get down to the business of properly belittling them.
Oct 19, 2010 at 2:43 pm rating: 16
#19
Divvitar
Honey, the postman left his junk in my box again!
…and it was fucking delicious!
Oct 19, 2010 at 2:55 pm rating: 4
#20
Tina
The first person is complaining about NOT being inundated with junk mail and flyers??
Sounds like it’s time for them to get a life! (And learn not to complain about petty crap like that)
Oct 20, 2010 at 12:56 pm rating: 0
#21
Odious
No junk mail dicks
Learn to read you pricks no
Junk mail
team postman:
“OK, fine, you don’t get any junk mail dicks.”
“And, for you, I learned to read my pricks no. Here’s the junk mail you requested.”
Oct 21, 2010 at 3:23 am rating: 1
#22
Canthz_B
In the Middle Ages, junk mail could cost you your life.
Oct 21, 2010 at 8:37 pm rating: 2
#23
James
Australia sounds like a wonderful place. In the U.S., the postal service delivers the junk mail because it makes a lot of money off of this.
Private companies do deliver some advertising but they’re not allowed by law to put them into the mailboxes. Instead, they throw them somewhere in front of your house, which makes it easier for the thieves to know when you’re away for a few days.
Dec 1, 2010 at 8:01 pm rating: 1
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