The Observation Deck

To the citizens of Lakewood: does anyone other than myself think that the "Lakewood" (har har) Sun Post wants to trash our city by throwing their tripe ( I assume it is a complimentary copy of their "newspaper") on our lawns, driveway aprons, etc., anywhere but on our porches? Does anyone other than myself think that it makes our city look like a ghetto driving down the street, newspapers in flowerbeds, on tree lawns, etc, anywhere but the porch? (Do you think, as I do, that it is not really a community newspaper, and in fact doesn't give a darn about our community, and is possibly written by third graders in India?) If you do, please call Sun Newspapers and let them know, and call their advertisers and let them know too.

To Mr. Ryan Demro: is it possible to write a law saying that if you didn't specifically order trash thrown on your lawn, that if one DOES throw trash on your lawn (whether it is an empty coke bottle or a so-called community newspaper) that they can be fined, etc? According to the Lakewood PD, if I publish a newspaper I can throw it anywhere I dag-gone please and it won't be considered littering, so long as it is a newspaper.

To Jimmy "Jazz" Reynolds, Circulation director at the Sun: this has been going on for a while. Do you think you could ask your boss for a couple more pennies to hire responsible delivery people? You didn't hire illegals, did you?

To John M. Urbanchich, President of SUN: do you and your neighbors get trash thrown on your lawn too? You don't? I'm sorry -- where do you live? I would be happy to come and throw copies the LO all over your lawn, drive and flowerbeds, free of charge.

To Dan Miller, Westside Ad Manager: Can you imagine how much coin you would make if you worked for the LO? You deserve better than the SUN. Think about it.

And to the writers and editors at the LO: thanks for providing Lakewood's ONLY community newspaper.

This is the greatest city in the world -- KEEP LAKEWOOD BEAUTIFUL!!!

--Moosman

Paul, Great Post! I contacted the Sunpost the moment it hit my driveway. Did you get the Euclid Sun like I did? What a pathetic attempt to cover our city and they can't even get the location correct. And to top it off - our street is now covered with unsolicited copies of the Sun in driveways up and down.

Suzanne

I think a new law is unnecessary. And keep in mind, there are people out there that consider our beloved LO to be nothing more than litter, too, so be careful what you ask for.

How did this happen? It was obviously a huge mistake by the Sun management. It was not a mistake by local delivery people....on Olive Avenue, we got copies of the late November Brooklyn edition. Individual route delivery people would not have access to four-month old editions from another part of town.

If this happened all over Lakewood, I think LO should write a story about it!

BTW....let's stop throwing around hyperbole like "ghetto", huh? It just makes a post seem silly. A newspaper sitting in the driveway or yard hardly qualifies as a street as a ghetto. I bet if we took a survey of the folks in Glenville, "errant newspaper delivery" would not make their top 10 list of community concerns.

FYI -

My daughter delivers for the Sun and they had no directive to deliver copies to anyone other than paid subscribers. She gets one complimentary copy per route per week that she can give away in an attempt to solicit business; however, she has also been taught/trained to have the paper properly placed in a bag and placed on a stoop.

If there is something different happening, it isn't because your average carrier is doing it. Perhaps it is someones idea of a prank using papers from the recycling bins?

Peace,
~Charyn

We never got a free Sun Post!

We just get all the trash that blows down the street.

Mine has always been on the porch - or sometimes tucked inside the front screen door. Could be a case of lazy paper people with the ones left in driverways.

On another note, the Plain Dealer is so plain awful I stopped subscribing to it, with great reluctance.