Small Red Dot/circle on my door this morning ?? OMG, page 2
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reply posted on 6-10-2009 @ 05:38 PM by chiron613
My first thought is that this is some way of distinguishing the apartments for some reason - possibly maintenance, checking smoke alarms, something of that nature. Another possibility could be that they are marking the apartments in which the leases are close to the end, versus ones where there is more time. Something of that nature, just a quick and easy way to identify which apartments might need attention or whatever.

The subscription idea sounds reasonable, as well. However, that would be prone to dirty tricks, where someone having a cheaper subscription could simply switch dots with someone having a premium one. Also, people aren't necessarily happy to have little dots stuck onto their doors.

I don't know whether Canada is doing a census any time soon, but it might even be some sort of indicator as to who gets asked what questions.

I highly doubt that this is anything sinister. For one thing, again, someone could easily swap dots, avoiding whatever it is THEY were going to do, and inflicting it on someone else. Or they could simply remove the dot, which would undo their efforts.

If there were a sinister plot involving marking doors, I would expect them to use some sort of fluorescent ink that is invisible in ordinary light, but shines under a blacklight. This would make it easy for THEM to identify whatever it is they want to identify, while avoiding detection by most people, and making it far more unlikely that someone might play around with the markings.


reply posted on 7-10-2009 @ 12:36 AM by EnhancedInterrogator
Eh... it's fairly common for newspaper carriers to mark customers premises (mailboxes or doors or doorways for apartments) with a sticker to indicate whether they normally get papers daily, weekly etc.

Here's a link to one newspaper's site's Q&A about this ..
Huntsville Times (AL.com)

Quoting that:
Mailbox dots help carrier deliver
By Ronnie White
August 27, 2007, 6:00AM
Q. Why are there small circles (reflective dots) on certain mailboxes in the Hazel Green area? We have noticed them in several neighborhoods and they are mostly gold, some are red and others are blue/green. Not every mailbox has one, but they have just appeared and we have no clue as to why.
A. Those reflective stickers are used by The Huntsville Times carriers to identify the type of newspaper delivery the household receives. In most cases, yellow is every day, green is weekend and red is Sunday only.
"These reflectors help our contractors deliver the newspaper properly," said Circulation Director Frank Maier. "After a few weeks carriers become more familiar with these different types, but at night mailboxes can look the same. When the carrier's car headlights hit the reflector the carrier can easily remember a subscriber's delivery type."
If a carrier has an emergency or takes a few days off, the reflectors help the substitute deliver the route before the delivery deadline, Maier said.
Got a question? Submit it to htimes@htimes.com or phone it in to 536-8255. Include your name, hometown and phone number.

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