What’s my play: Newspaper constantly delivered under car

[Colonel Kataffy]

park on the porch

[Lottery Larry]

Can you buy the paper locally, rather than have it delivered? Then cancel the service and explain why.

If that's not an option, then send a card with a penny tip and a note:

"I wanted to reward your expert marksmanship over the past year. I'm planning on parking my wife's car farther up on the driveway. Please do so weight training so you'll be able to hit the new target as accurately as you did the old one."

Now, if the paper wasn't in a bag, could he have been doing it to protect your paper from the elements? :P

edit- never mind, ScottieK's is much better than mine. Use his, or rewrite to respond to his "please tip me" card: "My car thanks you for the paper throughout the year. Look for his check shortly"

[Alobar]

I dont believe complaining wont work. Any decent paper has a phone number specifically for problems with delivery.

I live Evans idea best

[Lottery Larry]

Another option, if you want to get back at the customer "service" department:

Call every day, saying you didn't see your paper on your porch or lawn and you need a replacement. Make them bring it to you. If that ends up under the car, call them again and repeat the process.

[gamblore99]

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Another option, if you want to get back at the customer "service" department:

Call every day, saying you didn't see your paper on your porch or lawn and you need a replacement. Make them bring it to you. If that ends up under the car, call them again and repeat the process.

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Wow. Definitely the best idea by far.

[grinin]

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Another option, if you want to get back at the customer "service" department:

Call every day, saying you didn't see your paper on your porch or lawn and you need a replacement. Make them bring it to you. If that ends up under the car, call them again and repeat the process.

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This is definitely the best because you are actually getting back directly at the driver not the CSD. Most delivery people are independent contractors who get paid a flat amount per paper delivered on a standard route. Many delivery people will do their own callbacks because if they have another driver do it, there is a superpremium on these individual deliveries which is then deducted from their pay every week. The driver will be sure to get the hint quickly since you may end up costing him the same amount he is making out of the entire neighborhood.

btw. why in hell would you put up with this for more than a week?

[I.Rowboat]

Thanks again -- good tips.

btw. why in hell would you put up with this for more than a week?

Well, for quite a while I had no idea it was a problem, as my wife would leave for work early and the paper would be sitting in the driveway after she left. Even after her schedule changed, I wasn't getting the paper every morning before I left for work -- between getting kids dressed and off to school, and getting to work myself, I didn't have time to read the paper until the evening, and my wife had already brought it in by that point. It took another schedule change within the past few weeks to see just how consistently the paper was ending up under the car, which, as it turns out, was about 100% of the time.

So since I've been aware of it I've called and complained, but no, I'm not all worked up over it. I suppose I should be indignant, but my life is great, this is a small annoyance, and he's actually paying for the privilege of doing this by sacrificing his tip for this calendar year. Proportionally, the tip money he's losing represents a much greater part of his salary than it does mine, so whatever.

I think the suggestion to just keep reporting the paper as missing instead of improperly delivered is the clear winner, as that forces the paper guy (or his supervisor) to correct his mistake, and by morning two or three he should get the message that the game is over. Thanks, Lottery Larry -- good solution.

[TheRover]

[siccjay]

haha nice

[kyleb]

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