Matt and his girlfriend were taking a stroll through her parents’ neighborhood (of mostly-legal manor homes?) when they came across this pile of aging newspapers.
“We thought it was good of the employer to be willing to give the delivery boy a chance to explain himself,” Matt says. “However, the sign remains.”
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50 responses so far ↓
#1
Neeners
Sir Richard that was quite a rant for a guy who can’t tell the difference between a manor and a manner.
Can I have your dog? He’s cute.
Oh yeah and I’m too busy littering with your new papers to carry your eyesore sign in with me.
May 1, 2012 at 5:05 pm rating: 18
#2
Henry
Salem Oregon?
May 1, 2012 at 5:07 pm rating: 1
#3
Diana
Hmmmmm…..Richard…..Dick……yeah, that’s apropos.
May 1, 2012 at 5:08 pm rating: 7
#4
jaylemeux
I quit.
May 1, 2012 at 5:17 pm rating: 3
#5
kermit
Dear Rich,
As you have correctly stated, I only get paid to deliver your newspaper, not your lawn signs, too. And may I remind you that your subscription says “home delivery” not “delivery to your office door’.
Toodles!
May 1, 2012 at 6:28 pm rating: 20
#6
Jess
Love that he presumes the delivery kid knows where his office is. Because let’s be honest, we all are that level of interested in Richard’s life.
May 1, 2012 at 6:45 pm rating: 7
#7
Jenn
I want to see this illegal manor. It’s probably the home of a mob boss or something. I bet the kid is using the papers as an excuse to get close and bust up a drug ring! Let him/her be!
May 1, 2012 at 7:05 pm rating: 16
#8
LB
Jess,
I would have to assume the kid knows where his bosses office is, no matter how poor of an employee this kid is
May 1, 2012 at 7:40 pm rating: 25
#9
makya
uh, you guys realize the person he busted is the paper delivery person, right? they get fired for this all the time for dumping the freebie wednesday paper instead of delivering it because they think no one will notice.
May 1, 2012 at 8:20 pm rating: 8
#10
caffeine
Definitely have to agree it’s from the delivery supervisor. A resident would more likely complain to the newspaper (or whoever he is buying his newspapers from) and not invite an unknown delivery person to his office. Team note writer (reluctantly, because of the spelling errors and also because he must know who delivers to this area and could have approached them about it in a less PA fashion). As to the number of newspapers in the pile, the photo was taken to highlight the sign, which had to be stuck in the dirt – there could be any number of papers just out of shot on the cemented area.
May 1, 2012 at 11:00 pm rating: 16
#11
bookworm
Dear Richard,
You’re not my boss.
Enjoy your nice long walk to your soggy papers.
May 1, 2012 at 11:47 pm rating: 2
#12
bookworm
If the sign was from the delivery boy’s boss, don’t you think that he would know who has what route, and therefore, who said delivery boy is?
May 1, 2012 at 11:49 pm rating: 1
#13
Paige
Looking at the first picture, I don’t think they’ve aged to the point of being one “paper” yet.
Also, if a manor has been built illegally, the tenants are lucky to get a paper at all, even if they do belong to Sir.
May 2, 2012 at 12:02 am rating: 4
#14
Unhinged
Its obviously from his boss! It’s signed from his boss! He is paid by his boss. Why don’t people read these things properly?
Team note(sign)-writer – littering is unforgivable!
May 2, 2012 at 12:49 am rating: 50
#15
Unhinged
*It’s! Sorry
May 2, 2012 at 12:50 am rating: 0
#16
Jack-O-Lantern
It kinda looks like all the newspapers were dumped where the sidewalk ends (by Shel Silverstein), not in front of anyone’s property. If you look closely, some of those papers aren’t in protective bags, they’re just strewn about and aged, and that’s only from what we can see from that photo, as someone’s pointed out. Looks like whenever the delivery boy gets tired or bored, he or she just dumps the rest of the papers there, and his or her boss found out about it.
May 2, 2012 at 5:57 am rating: 13
#17
The White Clouds of Opium
The upshot is that it’s 2012 and no one called to complain.
May 2, 2012 at 6:05 am rating: 4
#18
bob loblaw
The dog has a guilty look on his face. I think he moved all the papers there.
May 2, 2012 at 7:21 am rating: 18
#19
Jessica P.
EVEN IF the note is from the delivery supervisor that doesn’t change the fact that it’s completely dickish.
And who is to say that a neighborhood dog or raccoon hasn’t been dragging them off porches? Once the paper is in front of the house it’s not the responsibility of the delivery person to make sure they stay there.
May 2, 2012 at 7:38 am rating: 2
#20
Lil'
I think these are the extra papers after he completes his route. Instead of taking them back to the office, he dumps them. If he were not delivering to the people on his route, the office would have gotten more complaints than just the one from the neighbor who saw him dump them. My sister-in-law has a paper route and her spare room is filled halfway to the ceiling with extras. I have no idea what she plans to do with them. She also has a few cats, so I’m guessing at this rate, she be on an episode of Hoarders within the next 5-10 years.
May 2, 2012 at 7:53 am rating: 24
#21
My name is Princess!
I think the boss would have better luck constructing a Bull’s Eye sign with a hole in the middle near his desired delivery area. Men like to have somewhere to aim.
May 2, 2012 at 2:36 pm rating: 3
#22
saam
I always thought papers were delivered by shifty-looking men driving plymouth dusters.
May 3, 2012 at 1:36 am rating: 1
#23
yolanda
When I was a young girl, around 13 or 14, I took on a paper route. This was not a subscriber route, however, I delivered spam by the armload. Flyers, coupons, and other lousy excuses for deforestation arrived by the bundle. I had a 2mile route (each way) with houses very far apart so lots of bicycling, and the papers were heavy. It wasn’t long before I realized I could skip over half the route by stuffing armloads of the things into sewer drains, the school trash bin, etc. I don’t guess a lot of people complained about the reduction in trash but the school janitor got fed up with the papers in his bin and the neighbours of the storm drain really got ticked. That was the end of my job. I would not have taken those papers to the office either!
May 3, 2012 at 10:52 am rating: 0
#24
Harmy G
Check out the number on the other side of the sign…
Clear Signal
Dish Network
503-990-7706
May 3, 2012 at 2:09 pm rating: 0
#25
Kathryn
When I lived in a small college town, there was an ongoing drama about a weekly advertising spam newspaper. Sometimes the stories in the real news newspaper complained because the company’s deliverypeople kept delivering it to people who had opted out, and sometimes the stories featured heaps of rotting newspapers in storm drains and creeks. So I think a similar scenario is more plausible than a subscriber complaining that the papers were delivered two far from the porch.
May 4, 2012 at 12:42 am rating: 1
#26
Dr.Chalkwitheringlicktacklefeff
My theory; the note wasn’t written by Richard The Boss. It was written in the hope that the culprit would accidentally reveal themselves.
Who even gets a paper delivered these days? It’s all on the internet for free.
May 4, 2012 at 4:40 pm rating: 0
#27
Mrs.Beasley
Seriously, I don’t blame RICH ARD for being upset. Here he’s paying for a newspaper subscription to his home and the damned kid is delivering it to IIIEGAI MANOR!
May 4, 2012 at 11:53 pm rating: 0
#28
ex-paper girl
I don’t think these are from the paper person’s actual “boss” or “supervisor”, and I don’t think the paper person is a kid on a bike. This sign is actually wasted on its intended target because when you deliver a paper at 3 or 4 in the morning, you are driving by so fast and flipping papers out of your window that you’re not reading signs. 10 to 1 the paper person doesn’t even know it’s for them. Also, if it was his actual boss, he wouldn’t leave a sign and let this go for so long. He would drive the paper person over there after his shift and make him clean it up. This is a tongue and cheek indication on the part of Richard that “I’m your boss cause I buy the paper that it’s your job to deliver.” If Richard doesn’t call in and complain and request that the paper be delivered in a different manner, than nothing is going to change. I had a customer who wanted her paper delivered on the porch, and if it was even off on one of the steps, I never heard the end of it. So, sorry Richard, your sign is doing no one except us here on the internet any good.
May 5, 2012 at 4:41 pm rating: 0
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