Saturday, December 5, 2009
As appeared in The Star's Opinion Page of Saturday April 8, 2006
Is there no law against sticker spam?
I AM an owner-occupant of a shoplot in Sri Sentosa, Kuala Lumpur.
Like many other commercial areas in the Klang Valley, the walls of our shoplots and common passageways are pasted with sticker advertisements.
By this I mean the multi-coloured palm-sized sticker adverts offering mainly loan-shark credit, pawnshop gold trading, plumbing works, renovation services and tuition.
Like Internet spam, these junk advertisements are becoming more frequent and more obnoxious by the day.
There is no respect for private property, with even shop windows pasted over with these stickers. Small PVC pipes and tree trunks are also not spared.
If there is an unoccupied shoplot, the roller shutter becomes an immediate poster board for this trash.
Unlike Internet spam, there is no junk mail software for this nuisance.
Stickers require physical labour to remove and often leave persistent glue and paper stains.
If someone were to methodically sprinkle our shoplot walkways with litter daily, he would be arrested because there are laws against littering.
Is there no law against sticker spam?
Weitten to The Star by:
SHOPKEEPER, Kuala Lumpur.
* This article is taken from thestar.com.my.... after read this article and few other articles, i become one of those people who have doubt regarding this problem. Many of them complaining that person who has responsibility towards this problem ignore this situation. They also said that they have to peel the sticker-spam by themselves especially to those owners of the shop.
Even though there is a term said that if anyone posts notices all over the place without MPSJ permit, can be taken down. But with the exception of course for those who seek lost pets and the like due to humanitarian reasons. Hmmm...why there is still unwanted stickers all over the wall?
Is it because lack of enforcement and so these people do just about anything they want to attract business. Hope the responsible parties will think the solution towards this problems...