You have shredder trucks going through your neighbourhoods like mendicant tinkers??
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BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 19 hours agoShe’s got one, but she thinks the trucks will shred better, and the shreds wont be in our trash where people will know where they came from.
I should note that my mother lives in a gated, active adult community, and there is literally ZERO crime on her neighborhood. If someone started going through someone else’s trash, you’d have a half a dozen busybodies demanding to know what you’re up to.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 17 hours ago
3 big trucks, and three lanes of cars, pull up, pop the trunk, guy takes out the boxes and bags from the back and tosses them into bins, that are later emptied into the trucks, and you drive away.
And trust they really do pulp your papers without sifting through for the good stuff.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
What even is this? Who is providing this service in the first place? This is weird, right? It’s not just me?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
The Yellow and White Pages were a private business, and they sold the listings in the Yellow Pages, and also sold upgraded listings in the White Pages. Residential listings were free.
Then they’d drive around and drop them on peoples’ front steps. I knew people that made extra cash at Phone Book Delivery Season.
There were also competing Yellow Pages by upstart companies, especially smaller local Yellow Pages. You might have the big giant book that was the whole city/county, and then have a smaller set for just your suburb. A small local business might spring for an decent ad in the local Yellow Pages, and just put a simple listing on the big one.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 hours ago
wait lol, if she thinks her address is so valuable for strangers to steal, wouldn’t that make tossing it somewhere other than home more risky? Not that there’s much thought going into this routine.