If you want your newspaper delivered, you're officially old.

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38. The local newspaper has a free rag that they throw out to every driveway

We have not gotten the local newspaper for decades - they tried to rip me off when I was a carrier, they tried to rip my husband off when he was one, and when my husband got a job as a circulation manager he had to lie to the people to hire them as carriers.

Aside from all of that there really does not seem worth it to have a paper delivered when I'd have to drive from my house to my driveway to pick it up every morning.

So when this thing started arriving unasked in my driveway - each one carefully placed in plastic bags increasing the garbage ratio - I called up and asked that they stop. I made a number of calls which they ignored. This was during the period before I had my knees replaced so climbing in and out of my truck to pick up unwanted garbage was not only annoying, it was painful and unsafe for me. I left them there, hoping that would be a signal to the carrier to stop leaving the undesired packages.

In the end, I threatened to report them for littering as the number of their free crap left in the driveway increased. I also told them there were at least a dozen in my drive and if they were not gone in a week I WOULD report them for littering. The things were gone in two days and have never appeared since.