selective theft
I have a so called "day-subscription" for the Standard, i.e. I only get the newspaper on one day of the week. I deliberately chose Friday as this is the day when you get their free RONDO magazine. When I leave for work on Friday morning, I find the newspaper waiting for me on my doormat. So far, so theory. On the last few Fridays, however, that meant the paper minus the RONDO supplement. I suspect one of the owners of the 4 penthouses as I never had this problem before the roof was adapted for posh duplex apartments. Not wanting to get up at 5 a.m. and peek through the peephole until the RONDO-thief does his dirty deed I've contemplated writing a sarcastic poster for the notice-board. Or could it be a new advertising coup of the Standard people themselves, deliberately pissing off subscribers with a brainwave along the lines of "our supplements are so good they get stolen before YOU get the chance to lay your hands on them". Who knows.
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which reminds me, some time ago one of the tenants on the first floor of the building where i live seemed to have a similar problem. which is probably why they attached the following message to their door: "hey standard-dieb! hände weg von unserem standard!" the rhetoric device of repetition must have added to the effectiveness of this otherwise dumb poster, for in the following weeks i witnessed on my late returns home a lonely standard lying on the doormat of selfsame apartment. seems now that the thief was gone not even the subscribers wanted the newspaper anymore... strange thing, the human psyche...
Have you got any kind of a small camera? Attach it one Thursday evening (visibly) and wait... :-)
I have had the problem for a long time. I had subscribed to the Saturday edition and so many times didn't find it where I was supposed to find it: in front of my door. Each time I sent the Standard an e-mail, each time they added the missing edition to my subscription. Eventually I was fed up not getting this paper each Saturday and cancelled the subscription.
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