Re: [PPNZ] Re: Campaign Time - who's listening?

[Tommy Fergusson]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Bruce Kingsbury <zc...@zcat.geek.nz> wrote:

I'm off to get a haircut so I don't look quite so scruffy, and I think I might hold up a big sign this afternoon while everyone's heading home from work. And again tomorrow when everyone's coming in to university.

Friends of mine deliver pamphlets for the greens and have said if I get a bunch printed they'll deliver them too, all around Hillcrest (student central!) so I might take them up on that.

Sounds great. Be good to have a couple of Pirates join them for it too - might get more than we bargained for.

Who's in Hamilton? As someone who's done this (mail drops) before, i'd recommend it if you can get a group of 4-6. It sounds like there's already about 3.

Pervach

[mathmo]

Personally I think Pervach the (we both know which party :P) way
they've been doing mail drops has been inefficient. Coming from a
background of years of being a newspaper boy and having a math
degree... I hate to see backtracking and inefficient double up of two
people delivering to the same houses at the same time.

I'd recommend just one person doing a segment, or perhaps two (3 tops)
if they're communicating carefully so they get the most efficient
delivery path sorted.

The *only* advantage to getting a large group doing a section is that
the volunteers enjoy it more as it is a more social event. But it
sucks in terms of efficiency.

On Nov 15, 3:05 pm, Tommy Fergusson <tom...@pirateparty.org.nz> wrote:

[Tommy Fergusson]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:07 PM, mathmo <mat...@gmail.com> wrote:

Personally I think Pervach the (we both know which party :P) way
they've been doing mail drops has been inefficient. Coming from a
background of years of being a newspaper boy and having a math
degree... I hate to see backtracking and inefficient double up of two
people delivering to the same houses at the same time.

I'd recommend just one person doing a segment, or perhaps two (3 tops)
if they're communicating carefully so they get the most efficient
delivery path sorted.

The *only* advantage to getting a large group doing a section is that
the volunteers enjoy it more as it is a more social event. But it
sucks in terms of efficiency.

Doing it on your own sucks, and if we tell people to do that, a lot of people will get sick of it and stop.

As I see it, the point isn't to get stuff delivered to as many places as possible. Yes, getting a lot of stuff out is good too, but it's more important to get more of our own guys active, knowing who everyone is and taking a stake in the party.

Also, a group going about it in a social way gets seen, and is more approachable. I'll take face to face interaction with the electorate over giving them a flier to drop in the bin any day. What are they more likely to talk to their mates about? junk mail or meeting a pirate?

Pervach