There’s a particular junk mail sender that I’m sick with up to here (holding my hand at eyeball level).
The offender, Twin Cities Values, puts more worthless paper in the form of a multi-page ad supplement, which represents nothing but worthless crap, in my mail box than even the most offensive politician 10 days before election day. Twin Cities Values is owned by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The lovely ad mistress sales rep responsible for actually managing the ad space sold in this waste of paper is Shelly Neilson. Not my best friend, dear Shelly. The ad circular is mailed to all “Valued Customers” in neighborhoods across the Twin Cities region and features worthless advertising paid for by the likes of Menards, Rainbow, Northstar Home Fitness, Pizza Hut, Screen Mobile (a full page ad), Milios Sub Sandwich Shop, El Rodeo Restaurant and The World Market.
Local business owners and managers who choose to waste part of your valuable advertising budget on the Twin Cities Values rag published by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, please be aware, this twice weekly circular goes immediately into my recycling bin. I’m adamant about it. However, many of my neighbors (valued customers, one and all) aren’t all so diligent. They allow the worthless piece of shit that is distributed by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, to be blown around the neighborhood streets and lawns, filling up the gutters and littering the ground no matter where one looks.
Nice job Star Tribune. Nice work Shelly and all your underlings at Twin Cities Values. Your worthless piece of shit advertising circular and the local businesses in my community who choose to waste their money supporting this rag of a paper now reside on my “worst” of all-time list.
And I refuse to step foot into any of the businesses that continue to support your effort bent on wasting trees and littering the neighborhood.
There. I said it.
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Land of 10,000 Perspectives 
That stuff drives me nuts also.
I let it build up in my mailbox, picking out only real mail each day. When the mailbox is full I put it into a paper grocery sack for recycling on the porch. I can easily fill a grocery sack in a month or so. That’s a sack per month at one house. What do you suppose would happen if we all refused to accept the stuff? What if everyone took each piece of junk mail and returned it to the post office or put it in a mail dropbox. I know it isn’t the postal service generating the stuff but if it became an incredible burden for them perhaps they would stop delivering it, if that is legally possible.
I completely agree. This ‘publication’ is a complete waste of natural resources for the sake of someone’s marginal profit. Every apartment I have lived in in Minneapolis has garbage bins full of these weekly. It is the perfect example of greedy business scum trumping the environment. I cannot think of anything more self centered.
The amount of paper I receive from Twin Cities Values is insane. On the back of the paper, it says
“To be removed from our list, please send an email to tcvdonotmail@startribune.com or call 612-673-7867.”
If you send them your address, you get an e-mail response,
“We have received your email.
Due to production and mailing deadlines, requests for removal from, or additions to, our mailing list may take to 2-3 weeks to process.
Thank you for taking the time to contact us. ”
Hopefully this works. I wish I could unsubscribe everyone from this piece of trash — no one I know actually reads it, yet it stuffs our mailboxes non-stop.
The twin cities values circular is the most anoying and abundent of all the junk mail I receive. Over the past several years (3-5) it has become more and more of a nuisence and I feel like I have become a recycling center for a bunch of unwanted trash I never asked for in the first place. IT HAS GOT TO STOP. I know it sustains alot of peoples income all along the trail but all it really does is generate a bunch more garbage. People now how to find what they need when they need it without generating all this trash.
I got particularly annoyed since the delivery method has switched from junk mail delivery to now “delivering” this trash in it’s own little trash bag and littering my driveway. Before I was content to simply recycle it after picking it up with the rest of my mail. How is this not littering? It’s not requested. I’ve offered to collect and return these to their offices in a similar fashion.