V, WTF?

We subscribed to the Vicksburg newspaper this spring, in an attempt to be informed citizens and support the local press. But we travel so much that it's proven problematic. Either we have to get friends to pick up our paper while we're gone (an inconvenience since we're gone so often), or Mary Beth has to contact the newspaper and ask them to suspend delivery for the days we're away. Option #2 never works. (Well, now that I think about it, once the carrier did deliver all the papers at the end of a week of saving them, but that was in addition to the fact that she threw them every day.) Since the paper staff can't figure out how to stop delivery upon request, we decided to quit subscribing...in June. Still, the newspaper is persistent with delivery.

Last week, before we left for the beach, MB again contacted them twice: once to remind them that we haven't subscribed for almost two months and to ask them nicely to quit delivering to us, and a second time to submit a vacation request. [The theory was that at least one of these tactics would stop delivery while we were at the beach.] Well, here's a photo of what we arrived home to today. It would save a lot of trees if the carrier would just post a sign in our yard reading: OWNERS AWAY. ROB NOW.

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