Dear Editor:
An open letter to Mayor Anthony Russo:
I have been a resident and a business owner in Hoboken since 1989. For the past few years a private company has been delivering plastic bags full of store coupons and flyers to both my office and the building I reside at. Not having accesses to the mailboxes as they deliver the packs themselves and not via the post office, they leave those in a pile on the ground in front of the building. The wind of course spreads them all over the sidewalk.
My phone call to the company requesting to be omitted from their delivery route did not produce any results.
Our street is continually littered. We have had to pay an additional surcharge to the lobby cleaning service to collect the flyers in front of the building.
Last year I was ticketed for littering when one of the boxes put outside my office for recycling was opened and its content spilled by kids. An attempt to hand advertisement flyers out to passersby in front of the PATH resulted in similar warning. My question to you is how come the company is allowed to distribute their materials in this manner and are not held to the same laws as the rest of us?
Ron Kanfi