Does anyone else hate those flyers people put on doors?

Question

I live in an apartment and not a day goes by that someone doesn't put a stupid flyer on my door. It isn't the flyer that bothers me as I just toss it in the garbage. What bothers me is that it tells everyone you aren't home. You can go on vacation, lock your door, put lights on timers, stop your mail and paper, etc and then someone puts one of those stupid things on your door and it stays there letting everyone know you aren't home. If you have someone to watch your place and take it off , it's no big deal but if you live someplace where you don't trust any neighbor to take them off for you, then it isn't good. How about a don't hang anything on my door list. Maybe fining the companies that do this would make them stop.

Answer 1

wow! I so hate it too, but I never thought of it like that, that is really kinda scary.. I know I have told them to stop putting **** on my front door and they don't .. wow .. scary!

Answer 2

Depending upon your Apartment Building, they should have some measure of security where people cannot just walk up to your door. But some apartment buildings don't have the buzzer system, etc.
However, I have to say that direct advertising is a huge industry and a lot of people's livelihood depends on printing and distributing those flyers and it is small business owners who do that. So fines imposed on these folks might not be the best option.
So if you live in a building where anyone can walk up to your door, you can put a sign. If you live in a building where people cannot access your door directly and you still see flyers, there might be a bigger security issue.

Answer 3

I have no door. Really. But I had a door, and them flyers I would hate, yes.

ADVICES
Just don't buy anything from any company that puts any kind of flyer by your door. It's going to take a while, but it will work. They will stop printing flyers. Really. Try it!

ALTERNATIVE ADVICES
Put a sign on your door. No flyer. Ask your mayor for a new law against flyers. He might lose his job, but you never know.

Answer 4

I don't like them either, I think it is an invasion of my space. I usually toss them on the ground so people will complain to the manager and they will be on the watch for those solicitors and make them stop. I don't like coming out of the market and finding advertisements on my car. I have never nor will I ever use a service that advertised on my house door, or my car.

Answer 5

I don't think putting a sign on your door saying "Hang no Flyers" will work. First, they will put them on for spite, and second, they might not be able to read English - it's a low income profession. Put it on, but don't expect miracles.

If you can't trust a neighbor to remove them, pay the super/janitor a few buck to remove them when you are away.

Answer 6

Why throw it away? Why not take the time to look at it. After all we are living in the last days, hence the urgency to tell/show people what it means to keep "awake" as Jesus made mention.
“Keep looking, keep awake, for you do not know when the appointed time is.”—MARK 13:33.

AS EXCITING events unfold in this “time of the end,” how should Christians react? (Daniel 12:4) They are not left in doubt. Jesus Christ uttered the prophecy containing the composite sign that has been undergoing fulfillment in this 20th century. He foretold the many features that have marked this period since 1914 as unique. Being acquainted with Daniel’s prophecy concerning “the time of the end,” Jesus followed up his own great prophecy by urging his disciples to “keep awake.”—Luke 21:36.

“Keep ready, because at an hour that you do not think likely the Son of man is coming.”—LUKE 12:40.
However, as we have seen many show the examples of Noah's day. Thus Jesus said: "For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be. For as people were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be.” (Matt. 24:35-39, NW; Luke 17:26-30)
If we are aware and say that we are living in the "last days", then we should show by aour actions and response to the aurgency of the message.
What indicates that we today are living in “the last days”?
The Bible describes events and conditions that mark this significant time period. “The sign” is a composite one made up of many evidences; thus its fulfillment requires that all aspects of the sign be clearly in evidence during one generation. The various aspects of the sign are recorded at Matthew chapters 24, 25, Mark 13, and Luke 21; there are further details at 2 Timothy 3:1-5, 2 Peter 3:3, 4, and Revelation 6:1-8. By way of illustration, we will consider a few outstanding portions of the sign.

One majour evidence of this sign is: ‘This good news of the kingdom preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness’ (Matt. 24:14)
The message that would be preached is that God’s Kingdom in the hands of Jesus Christ has begun to rule in the heavens, that soon it will put an end to the entire wicked system of things, that under its rule mankind will be brought to perfection and earth will become a paradise. That good news is being preached today in over 235 lands and island groups, to the most distant parts of the earth. Jehovah’s Witnesses devote hundreds of millions of hours to this activity each year, making repeated house-to-house visits so that everyone possible is given the opportunity to hear.

Why do Jehovah’s Witnesses preach from house to house?

Jesus foretold for our day this work: “This good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.” He also instructed his followers: “Go . . . and make disciples of people of all the nations.”—Matt. 24:14; 28:19.

When Jesus sent out his early disciples, he directed them to go to the homes of the people. (Matt. 10:7, 11-13) The apostle Paul said regarding his ministry: “I did not hold back from telling you any of the things that were profitable nor from teaching you publicly and from house to house.”—Acts 20:20, 21; see also Acts 5:42.
The message that the Witnesses proclaim involves the lives of people; they want to be careful to miss no one. (Zeph. 2:2, 3) Their calls are motivated by love—first for God, also for their neighbor.

A conference of religious leaders in Spain noted this: “Perhaps [the churches] are excessively neglectful about that which precisely constitutes the greatest preoccupation of the Witnesses—the home visit, which comes within the apostolic methodology of the primitive church. While the churches, on not a few occasions, limit themselves to constructing their temples, ringing their bells to attract the people and to preaching inside their places of worship, [the Witnesses] follow the apostolic tactic of going from house to house and of taking advantage of every occasion to witness.”—El Catolicismo, Bogotá, Colombia, September 14, 1975, p. 14.

Answer 7

yes I totally understand. I lived in vaa and they alwaysssss put tose on car winshields.Now in oregon they have a law aginst it I have not had any problems since living here.Complaain to yourr rentaal manaager.If the prrombleem is nott resoved, call your local police and let theem know your concern. Could be someone actually watching later to see whooo is not hhome.

Answer 8

maybe you should see about getting a letter box in or near the door?

if you rent then the landlord probably won't want one in the door but you could mount one on the wall, it should only take a small screw or two, the landlord probably wouldnt object if you offered to fix it before you leave

Answer 9

I know how you feel. I also live in an apartment and the flyers on the door are very annoying. ^_^

Answer 10

I had that problem once. I put a No Solicitation sign on my door,but someone took it down. I also don't like papers put on my car.

Answer 11

Yes, I hate those things. You have a good reason to hate them, but I hate them just because someone I don't know has come up to *my* door and put something on it that I don't want, didn't ask for, and no one requires me to recieve. I hate them invading my privacy like that, and I wish it were against the law. It's just like spam; didn't want it, don't like it, don't want to recieve it, but you can't avoid it.