A Valentine’s Day Poem, with Love from Metro Delivery
How to save Valentine’s Day: at the last minute, order flowers, chocolates, perfumes, furs and jewels from any local place that will take your credit card- and Metro Delivery will deliver it directly to your Valentine’s home or place of work, on whatever schedule will get you out of trouble.
Illuminated Metro Santa Emerges for the Season
One of the great things about driving around all day is finding the free things that people leave at the curb. People throw the most amazing stuff out.
For instance, our glowy Santa was found discarded- orphaned, even- head down in a dumpster, actually- but he’s been brightening our holidays here at Metro for the last three years.
Saved from the landfill and shining on as a proud yard-high beacon of redemption.
Announcing the Metro Raffle Winner!
The Question:
“What were the three telephone area codes that covered the whole lower peninsula of Michigan in the year Henry Ford died?”
The winner of the raffle, one of only 4 people offering the correct response ( 313,517, 616) was one J.W.P., who was simultaneously applying for a job as a Courier here at Metro Delivery.
The prize this month: a $50 gift card from Busch’s Grocery store! HAPPY HOLIDAYS J.W.P.!
And, coincidentally, after and independent of the fact of her winning, we hear that she’s to be offered the job here as well. It’s true that employees and relatives can’t win the raffle- but she absolutely won it fair and square, before we even interviewed her.
HOORAY for J.W.P.! Below, some of the incorrect responses that we got to the question:
810, 517, 616 -(close!)
662 -(that’s just one Area Code! And not even one of the 3 correct Area Codes!)
761 -(See comment directly above)
YES -(No!)
London -(…what?)
Metro Delivery Will Take Your Food and Toys
…and we’ll give the food to Food Gatherers and the Toys to Toys for Tots!
We donate our delivery services and do a Holiday company donation drive for both excellent organizations, and we’ll see that they get any toys or food you want to hand off to our Couriers, whenever you see them, during the holiday season!
Toys for Tots wants new, unwrapped but packaged toys-
Food gatherers offers the following List of most requested items:
• Tuna Fish or other canned fish or meat
• Beef Stew, Meat Soups
• Hearty Soups
• Canned Spaghetti or Pasta
• Chili
• Beans (kidney, pinto, green, yellow, refried or black beans)
• Baby Food or Formula
• Ensure or other nutritional supplement drinks
• Rice
• Dry Beans
• Noodles, Macaroni
• Powdered Milk
• Pancake or Baking Mixes
• Cereal/Oatmeal
• Granola Bars
• Peanut Butter
• Jelly (in plastic jars)
We also collect (unopened)
Personal Care Items:
• Diapers
• Toothpaste
• Toothbrushes
• Soap
• Shampoo
• Disposable Razors
**Food Gatherers does not accept opened containers and expired products, and asks that you avoid items in glass as they sometimes break in transit. Thank You!
UMTRI wins Research Award for Connected Vehicles Program
As mentioned in a previous post, Metro Delivery vehicles are being SECRETLY TRACKED by UMTRI in a groundbreaking research project to improve vehicle safety.
For this massive collaborative effort, UMTRI just won the “Deal of the Year” Award from annarbor.com in the Research category. We can’t imagine that it’s easy to win an award for research in Ann Arbor, what with all the research going on. But this study is so huge, and unique, and important that we’re not surprised it took the prize.
Congratulations to our friends at UMTRI! We’re proud to be a part of this amazing study!
Proposition 3: Good for Business, Good for Michigan
Metro Delivery has been meeting with the Michigan League of Conservation Voters to demonstrate our enthusiastic support of renewable energy and Proposition 3 on the November 6 ballot.
Proposition 3 is an initiative that would increase Michigan’s use of renewable energy sources- like solar and wind power- to 25% by 2025. Currently, Michigan is committed to 10% renewable by 2015, and is on target to achieve that.
Right now, Michigan gets around 60% of its total energy from coal, imported from other states (for which we pay 1.7 billion dollars annually!). Renewable energy will allow us to reduce our dependence on those outside sources, while reducing the amount of deadly mercury that we’re currently pumping into the atmosphere and precious waterways of Michigan.
In exchange for this, what do we get? Maybe as many as 94,000 new jobs in Michigan. And maybe a better future for our children. Utility companies are running a well-funded campaign to defeat this proposal, and retain their ability to continue using the same old cheap, dirty energy sources that have us in a position where most fish from Michigan’s inland lakes and streams are so contaminated with mercury that you’re not supposed to eat them more than once a month.
If it sounds expensive to increase our use of renewable sources, know that the proposition includes language that forbids utility companies from increasing consumer costs by more than 1% annually (average $1.25/month for most consumers) to transition. If you don’t believe in the technology, please look into the tremendous results that Germany has achieved with renewable sources.
Michigan, with its amazing, pristine natural resources, is uniquely poised to step forward and assume appropriate responsibility to protect the environment for future generations. please don’t miss this opportunity to stand up for our air, our water, and our children.
Metro Delivery encourages you get out on November 6 and to vote YES! on Proposition 3.