Anyone used door hangers to advertise their business?

[stevo]

I was stepping out the front door one day just in time to see some mexican closing my mailbox. I shouted at him, asking him wtf was he just doing, and he just crossed the street to the next mailbox. After walking out to our mailbox, it appeared he had put some bullshit advertisement wrote in mexican-lingo in it, well a short jog to the next house (where he was stuffing more of said shit into the mailbox) I caught up to him and I stuffed it back into his Walmart plastic bag, and told him if I saw him open another mailbox on my street I was calling the cops.
Cool story, huh bro?

Stevo

[Baron Von Crowder]

We used to do the Val-pak mailers, but ended up with people looking for something for nothing.

We started targeting specific areas and hanging thank you type notes, enveloped and nice looking. The kind of thing where people see it and wonder what it is and open it, instead of tossing it straight in the trash. It was expensive up front, but it paid for itself when calls came in.

[BlackGT]

Hanging stuff on my door doesn't bother me. It's the assholes that put shit on my windshield/under the windshield wiper that piss me off and get their "flyer" thrown away...

[mustangguy289]

I am glad I live off the road and not in a sub-division. Never had to deal with this.

[EW]

I don't like having to clean up trash on my porch every day. I have also been able to cut off virtually all junk mail.

[forbes]

I don't like having to clean up trash on my porch every day. I have also been able to cut off virtually all junk mail.

how the hell did you do that?

[EW]

Most junk mail has their contact info on it. I contact them and ask them to remove my address from their list. It takes a while to take effect.
Contact credit bureaus and opt out of prescreening.
Go to dmachoice.org and I think it was $5 for 5 years of list removal.

Some are harder than others to stop. Those MF's at Charter are persistent. I called and registered on their website do not mail list multiple times. They would figure out the last person's name at the property and continue to mail. It took more than a year to stop them from sending a mailer every 11 days or so.