My first thought after reading this note: “Hmm, I’m not sure what being a “wannabe hipster” has to do with not picking up your mail.”
Then I read our submitter’s (unapologetic) explanation: “My neighbor left this taped to the mailbox in the lobby due to my tendency to leave coupons that are mailed to me on a small table under our mailboxes.” The connection: Both can be really fucking obnoxious!
sbiancamento denti Be responsible and throw your junk mail away…in your own trash can. Do you realize that someone has to clean up after you, each and every time you decide to be lazy? Be a responsible adult and clean up after yourself. If you’d like to talk about this more, I’m in apt 3, and I’d love to have a ‘sit down’ with you. Please stop being inconsiderate and pick up ALL your mail. Thank you. Zach, Apt. 3″ href=”https://www.flickr.com/photos/passiveaggressive/18874124865″ target=”_blank”>
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#1
Apt 2
That’s not p-a because the neighbor signed it. P-a would be if he signed it “everyone else in the building” etc.
PS. Apt 5 grow up and throw away your shit! Check your entitlement and stop expecting everyone else to take care of you.
PPS No, you don’t get a trophy for not littering.
Jun 20, 2015 at 3:10 pm rating: 90
#2
labdude
Wow.
5 is “unapologetic” – does he somehow think he’s doing a favor, offering his coupons to others?
Or is he just being a dick? I’m guessing the latter.
Team Zach – He not only signed it, he actually offered to *talk* about it, and gave him the info to do so. This is how adults do things.
On the other hand, I’m inclined to believe Zach would be perfectly justified in collecting 3′s junk mail and wedging his door shut with it. Now *that* would be PA…
Jun 23, 2015 at 12:09 pm rating: 90
#3
kermit
Anybody that invites you over to talk about coupons is a freaking weirdo.
There are people who go nuts collecting coupons, especially if it’s for popular places like McDonald’s, Olive Garden, etc.
Jun 23, 2015 at 12:39 pm rating: 90
#4
The Elf
I have a friend who not only loves to give me coupons that he isn’t going to use, but will also point out ways I can shop more frugally. He happened to be over one day when I came back from the grocery store and proceeded to point out that THESE things were cheaper at THAT place and THOSE OTHER THINGS were cheaper OVER THERE and I damn near strangled him.
It costs me money (gas) and time to go to those other places. Or I could just buy it all at one place and save myself some sanity.
Of course, this was the same person who decided to “educate” me on the most efficient way to load a dishwasher, until I lost it and told him that when he owned a house, he could load his dishwasher in his kitchen any damn way he liked, but since it was my dishwasher in my kitchen in my house with my dishes, I’ll do it my way.
Then he was upset because I yelled.
Submitter, throw out your coupons or use them yourself. If someone wants extra coupons, they can ask you for them.
Jun 23, 2015 at 1:44 pm rating: 90
#5
The Beast Among Us
The lobby is not your personal trash can. It’s a community trash can!
Jun 23, 2015 at 1:53 pm rating: 91
#6
the cat
I also hate to see good coupons go to waste just because they are not for things I use. However, sometimes people need a little help understanding stuff since they don’t read minds. They can mistake a coupon share for a litter pile unless they are told what it is. I suggest to poster something similar to what I have set up on a windowsill in the break room at work. I put out a pretty box with a legible sign on it that says “Coupon Exchange”. I check it weekly and throw out anything that has expired and be sure it stays neat and does not overflow. I have seen people use it – both drop off and pick up- and no one has complained. Easy.
Jun 23, 2015 at 2:38 pm rating: 90
#7
Jami
Submitter – THROW AWAY YOUR DAMN TRASH!
Litterbugs aren’t cool bugs!
Jun 23, 2015 at 2:41 pm rating: 90
#8
Kasaba
We have a plastic storage bin in the entry stairwell to our flats to throw junkmail and previous residents’ mail into. If I’m the person picking up post first, I’ll chuck junk mail addressed to everyone in there. If you want that take out menu to Pete and Poppy’s Ice Cream and Kebab Parlour, it’s in the bin, where garbage should be.
Jun 23, 2015 at 3:36 pm rating: 90
#9
pooham
Because of the way I was brought up littering just feels wrong. (Just like not wearing a seat belt while in a car feels wrong, even though I never used to before it became the law.) But isn’t littering less of a problem than it used to be like 40 years ago? I’m thinking of the PSA about littering that had the Indian with a tear rolling down his cheek.
Jun 23, 2015 at 4:34 pm rating: 90
#10
Haterade
Extremely weird random thought, even for me…. you know what the next fad will be among “direct mail marketers”? Junk mail printed on toilet paper.
People will pay more attention to it than they do now, and then at least it’ll serve some purpose other than creating self-perpetuating recycled paper.
Jun 23, 2015 at 5:14 pm rating: 90
#11
AP
Apt 3 should come live in my building. The mailboxes are tiny so the mailman just leaves all big mail- circulars, ads, magazines, packages, large envelopes- on the table in the hallway. It gets left there until it’s very clear that no one wanted it, say several weeks.
I support sharing coupons, in general, but he should throw them away after a day or two if they’re not taken. Easy.
Jun 23, 2015 at 5:29 pm rating: 90
#12
Brad
In my old building(no longer an apartment dweller) we had a recycling bin and a little table underneath our mailboxes. I chucked out the junk mail, left anything with coupons on the table, and took my mail. Our building manager was pretty good about keeping bin overflow to a minimum and the coupons I(and others) left haphazardly on the table current and in order. I always assumed that was an apartment building standard. We had problems with shared laundry facilities and newspaper theft, but that was about it.
That said, if you don’t have a coupon exchange, clean your shit up. Zach is right to call them out on it. I’d visit apartment 3 for a “sit-down” just to hear what more he could possibly have to say on the matter, and also to find out if he actually wrote that note. That’s pretty girly writing for a “Zach”.
Jun 23, 2015 at 9:16 pm rating: 90
#13
JoDa
This is 50/50 for me not knowing more. In my old place we had a situation (that I won’t go in to detail about) with a former resident where her mail (junk included) kept coming to her address. The new resident couldn’t be bothered to sort through it, so she left everything not addressed specifically to her, including ads, on the floor of the hallway. It got so bad I posted my own semi-PA (which is still in that hallway) about disposing of junk mail and leaving things that needed to be “forward or return to sender” in a place where the mail carrier would actually see them and take them. That worked well.
In my new place, I started our own coupon share in the bulletin board near the mailboxes. I got a coupon I couldn’t use, got a piece of paper, and wrote: “feel free to take and use any coupons posted here, please remove any coupons you post that are not claimed after a week.” It’s worked smashingly well. I have given and received many coupons, and people clean up after themselves with the week deadline…
Jun 23, 2015 at 10:02 pm rating: 90
#14
Raichu
He signed it. It’s not a PAN.
Also, team note-writer. Leaving your trash out for someone else to pick up is obnoxious.
Jun 24, 2015 at 1:00 am rating: 90
#15
rachel
I’d have a “sit down” with them. I’d explain to them how small their lives are in the grand scheme of things.
Jun 24, 2015 at 5:46 am rating: 90
#16
Dane Zeller
Let’s see…on the Rodney King Civility Scale (RKCS) where 1 is “can’t we all just get along” and 10 is getting a beating, where would these guys fall. The contestants: the person who leaves coupons for someone else’s “benefit”, or the one who did not write: “Thanks for the thought, but most people don’t want your coupons, and they become trash. Please don’t leave them behind.”
Jun 24, 2015 at 9:19 am rating: 90
#17
Dane Zeller
Let’s see…on the Rodney King Civility Scale (RKCS) where 1 is “can’t we all just get along” and 10 is giving a beating, where would these guys fall? The contestants: the person who leaves coupons for someone else’s “benefit”, or the one who did not write: “Thanks for the thought, but most people don’t want your coupons, and they become trash. Please don’t leave them behind.”
Jun 24, 2015 at 9:22 am rating: 90
#18
pooham
Hey Apt 5, We all get the same junk mail so you’re not doing any favors by sharing yours with everyone else. Quit rationalizing your laziness and throw your own trash away.
Jun 24, 2015 at 11:07 am rating: 90
#19
Emily
Team Zach!
I live in a large apartment complex, and we get the same kind of junky coupons.
There’s always some lazy jerk who just throws them on the floor because they don’t feel like carrying them back to their own apartment.
Submitter wasn’t being helpful. He as being lazy. Helpful would be if he made a box for a “coupon exchange.”
TEAM ZACH!
Jun 25, 2015 at 2:15 pm rating: 90
#20
Mehriheart
Apt 5 is a dick for not throwing away his junk mail. Maybe he thinks he is being kind by offering his coupons to others but I am certain everyone recieves the same ones.
Zach is a dick because he can’t be polite. This letter could easily read ‘Dear Apt 5,
Please throw away your junk mail. If you have any questions I am in Apt 3.
Best regards,
Zach apt 3′
Jul 5, 2015 at 10:28 pm rating: 90
#21
Sadachbia
When I lived in an apartment building full of hipsters/yuppies and picked up discarded mail off the floor, I used the convenient addresses on each mail piece and deposited stacks of mail outside every apartment door. “Here, you forgot these! You’re welcome!”
Jul 10, 2015 at 11:40 am rating: 90
#22
din365
I cringed when the person says “somebody has to clean up after you”, because that’s what the lazy bastard is counting on.
Jul 16, 2016 at 1:42 pm rating: 0
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