It's in the mail. That's the latest on where the 2017 city calendar is. According to the mayor's office, about 75 percent of the 30,000 calendars were delivered to the Providence Post Office on Tuesday. The balance of the calendars is expected to be at
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It’s in the mail.
That’s the latest on where the 2017 city calendar is.
According to the mayor’s office, about 75 percent of the 30,000 calendars were delivered to the Providence Post Office on Tuesday. The balance of the calendars is expected to be at the post office today. Delivery is expected this and next week.
The calendar features local photographs and information about the city’s recycling and sanitation collections. The calendar was first distributed in 2002 as a means of keeping residents informed on what recyclables would be collected by week. The city used to alternate between blue bin collections for glass, metals and plastics and green bins for paper and cardboard. Recyclables separated for the green and blue week collections no longer apply.
But the calendar lives on, and when the city sought to eliminate it as a cost savings measure the outcry prompted the administration to reconsider. The city had planned to have the calendar in the mail early in December, however, the vendor printing the job ran into difficulties in stapling the final product. One delay led to the next, prompting a flurry of complaints to City Hall.
This year’s calendar features a sunrise photo taken at Conimicut Point, an appropriate setting for a new year.
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Momend22
Too late for me. If I had known there was a calendar coming I would not have bought one. Can't government do anything right?
Saturday, January 14, 2017 Report this
RISchadenfreude
Momend22, since when is it the government's responsibility to help you realize what day it is? It's the RI voters' reliance on "government" to wet-nurse them which has contributed so greatly to the situation the whole State is in...how ridiculous.
Monday, January 16, 2017 Report this
Justanidiot
we needs a calundur to find out when to put our yard wastes out so that the city will not pick it up and the bags will get rained on and rot so eyes will have to go back to bennys and get more. what a way to boost local sales
Tuesday, January 17, 2017 Report this