[Sg] - Sengkang Town Council gives out flier boxes to HDB residents, you want one?

[UltimaOnline]

SINGAPORE - Since about a week ago, residents in Housing Board (HDB) flats in Sengkang began receiving a folded plastic cutout in their mailboxes. Sent by Sengkang Town Council (SKTC), each cutout can be assembled to create a box for holding fliers.

SKTC is the latest town council here to roll out the initiative – which minimises leaflets being stuffed between gate grilles and littering the floor outside one’s unit.

HDB said it does not have an official record of when the scheme was started, but an online search showed that Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council piloted the initiative as early as 2011.

“All residents in Sengkang, around 55,000 of them, will receive a flier box,” a spokesman for SKTC told The Straits Times.

The town council said it has already received several calls from residents asking when they will receive the flier boxes.

Most town councils ST spoke to said residents can request for the boxes, which will be mailed to them for free.

These include Marsiling-Yew Tee Town Council (MYTTC) and Tampines Town Council (TTC).

https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...s-divided-over-flier-boxes-from-town-councils

 

[NanoRay]

To solve the issue of unwanted fliers, a better solution is to install security gates around the lobby accessible only by key cards.

 

[zhihau]

To solve the issue of unwanted fliers, a better solution is to install security gates around the lobby accessible only by key cards.

The letterbox area must also be gated then

 

[eatshitndie]

another trashbin for weekenders, bangla-pinay lovebirds, and party goers to throw junk in. hosay liao! don’t need to sexpand size of rubbish bins.

 

[Cottonmouth]

They should find these backward companies who are still using printed flyers and fine them heavily.
Can't they just advertise their shitty church services on Sammyboy?

 

[NanoRay]

The letterbox area must also be gated then

Nowadays letterboxes are locked from inside. You must be living in opposition ward with outdated letterboxes.

Only postman can have access to your letterboxes.

 

[zhihau]

Nowadays letterboxes are locked from inside. You must be living in opposition ward with outdated letterboxes.

Only postman can have access to your letterboxes.

That locking mechanism broke off long ago. Some flier distributor used some stick or something to force the flier into the letterbox and the swivel couldn’t take the blow.

 

[ChenShuang]

Just ban fliers