Last updated on July 10, 2021
TBN claims they deliver 103,550 paper every week in 5 separate community newspapers and delivered by an adult who is an independent contractor. It is a slim chance but always a possibility these newspapers and the delivery methods can spread the coronavirus?
Since the core purpose of the TBN is to generate revenues from selling ads. By getting eyes on their customer’s ads and business. Tampa Bay Newspapers (TBN) relies on their advertisers to pay the bills and must be read.
Businesses that place ads on any of the 5 detached local newspapers. Charging $499 per month for a “Leader Board” ad and $50 per month for a “Micro Bar” ad. Classified advertisements run from $50 for a 1″ display ad, $39 for a 15-word classified ad. A “Calling Card Corner ad. A 2-col x 2” display ad at $105 per week and everything in between.
With these advertising costs, advertisers want the best possible return for their advertising budgets. So, they want every TBN newspaper that carries their ads. To be delivered and read. So, we have another direction to pursue to make TBN do the right thing. Consequently, its time consuming and not really something I’d like to pursue.
Your course of action would be to first contact anyone you already do business with. Explaining that the TBN is littering your lawn, street, or clogging your water flow. That you’ve requested them to please no longer their deliverer the paper. Then reach out to “Leader Board” advertisers. Next, contact Calling Card Corner advertisers. Calling and emailing them explaining you would boycott them for advertising in this nuisance paper and why. Asking them to contact TBN and pass on your complaint.
Since TBN has made me a part-time street cleaner, and I have to clean up after them. As a homeowner, I have one other option that I’ll pursue to have the deliveries stop or delivered correctly. It starts with cleaning up after TBN. Something I do anyway. Then I’ll begin saving their newspapers litter and the plastic it sometimes wrapped in. Once I’ve collected a substantial amount, I’ll politely
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After reading your article on “Litter/Literature” a side though came to mind concerning the collected buildup of unsolicited freely distributed “Litter/Literature” on vacant seasonal properties as it can be a signal that the property may belong to a seasonal resident, giving a green flag to unsavory types that might target such properties. So would it be in the interest of the municipal to block said “Litter/Literature” as a precaution to protect its residents? In such a case as a home break-in, could the municipal be held responsible? Does the 1st Amendment protection for the press blanket the municipal’s responsibility? Which takes precedent, the precautionary safety of the tax payer by the municipal or the 1st Amendment rights of the press?