Wait, why am I walking to a newspaper box to pick up a copy of The Stranger? Are they saying it's supposed to be dumped on my front steps, just like TYP?
Its amazing how the state applies fines on virtual junk mail (email spam) and most people or business dont seem to have a problem with that. But to apply fines to unwanted PHYSICAL mail thats a much bigger pain in the ass to deal with, why thats a violation of my rights to free speech!
I should send this as a question for Dan "If I leave some unwanted yellow page directories on your porch, and someone claims I was littering, but you didn't use them, so I was just helping you recycle, is it ok?" and pretend I'm from Eugene.
We ...categorically reject the argument that a vendor has a right under the constitution or otherwise to send unwanted material into the home of another. If this prohibition operates to impede the flow of even valid ideas, the answer is that no one has a right to press even "good" ideas on an unwilling recipient. That we are often "captives" outside the sanctuary of the home and subject to objectionable speech and other sound does not mean we must be captives everywhere...
--Chief Justice Warren Burger, writing for the majority in Rowan v US Post Office (1970)
As these groups show us by example.
There is no confusion with other types of publications. No newspaper delivers to my door uninvited.
Stop being silly, Sally.
WHO'S BEEN STEALING MY STRANGER???
Use a whittling knife instead.
--Chief Justice Warren Burger, writing for the majority in Rowan v US Post Office (1970)