jwoods:
but it also gave only an illusion of supporting the massive printing operations at Bethel.
ironically, I helped run the Literature Litteratrash Depot at an Assembly Hall here in the midwest for 12-15 years. I can remember when there were months, especially around annual items time (bound volumes, year books, etc.) that we would get 15 pallets stacked high with lit and it came in on a Watchtower owned semi. The last few months that I did this waste of time (sometime in 2006), we were getting only 2-3 pallets, not all of them full, and they were being sent LTL (less-than-load) via "worldly" carriers...it would be trucked to the shipper in NY, sent via rail to the midwest, where a local LTL semi would pick up the lit and unload it....
I think that very little literatrash is being placed in the field these days... the last time I did door-to-door in Dec. 2006, I used only tracts and a bible, rarely placed, or attempted to place, anything else..... I did early morning "witnessing" with 2 or 3 others from 7am - 9am...driving to the same empty laundromats and leaving new not old magazines....because no one wanted them in the regular door to door work.
As to people even answering the door.... the least likely time to catch people home is midweek. Saturday mornings before 10 there are lots of people home...but the average meeting for service doesn't even end before 930am...and the groups often stop at their same tired magazine route calls before heading to the same tired territory (which may not even be covered once a year instead of twice)..... getting the same people with the same poor results.
I dont know why they use this method anymore... except it is no longer about reaching people...its about counting time and busy work.
Glad I am not doing it anymore...
Snakes (Rich )
Yoda/Barr: "Generation doctrine remember you do not. Preach nonsense you will."
JW RF: "I do not remember the generation teaching. I will preach nonsense."