{"id":82731,"date":"2022-07-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82731"},"modified":"2022-07-07T21:26:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T02:26:01","slug":"other-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82731","title":{"rendered":"Other Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A friend of the blog emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had read a while back that some garbage collectors in Saint Paul were not meeting their obligation to customers<\/a> and were not collecting trash. Mine was consistently being picked up, so I felt fortunate, especially since I was never a supporter of city wide trash collection, at least not the inefficient way Saint Paul was doing it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

With the heat, I had avoided a great deal of yard work during June, but towards the end of the month, I finally had enough yard waste to put out at the curb. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

No collection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t worry about it much. I just left it out for the next week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Still no collection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I finally contacted my hauler who told me they were contracting with another hauler to collect yard waste and to contact them. Ok. I would guess this wouldn’t be my job, but I did it anyway. That hauler told me they had never heard of me and that is why my yard waste wasn’t collected and they’d investigate more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So, I reached out to my own hauler again. This time, they told me my yard waste wasn’t out by 7am on collection day. (It’s been out for two weeks.) But, they insisted that this other hauler was ultimately responsible. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I called the other hauler back. This time, I was told that actually, in my part of town, my own hauler is responsible for yard waste collection and that they aren’t contracted to collect yard waste for that part of town.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

So, my head is spinning. Yard waste is not important to me. It will break down in the container. I’ll have more space and when they get it figured out, it will get collected one way or another. But, this is very poor practice. As we all know, if we let trash collection happen in a free market, as it should, then the original hauler would be cancelled and I would go with someone who could actually provide the service that I pay for. Since Saint Paul took this control from me, I sit here, with very little option.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The only satisfaction that I get—knowing that those whiny Marshall Avenue people who fought for this exact system are also getting the same poor service as me. And it’s only a slight bit of satisfaction because they’ll still support the same city council and mayor that allowed this to happen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The only results they really care about are getting government to do exactly what they want<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend of the blog emails: I had read a while back that some garbage collectors in Saint Paul were not meeting their obligation to customers and were not collecting trash. Mine was consistently being picked up, so I felt fortunate, especially since I was never a supporter of city wide trash collection, at least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neighborhood-nimbys","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82732,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82731\/revisions\/82732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}