I dread the day my employer starts to use this stuff....
Lolz I often wondered how you managed to get so much time off
From my considerable experience with leaflet droppers, they all, sooner or later, claim to have delivered some that they have actually shoved down a grate or dumped behind a hedge.
I used to track mine by making random house calls in the streets that they were supposed to have covered.
Yeah Tom I do this now and in theory once you have a team working together with 1 team manager who you trust it's more likely they are dropped.
Now I do random spot checks on a few roads covered that last 72 hours by each dropper plus have some spotter addresses in each area that we look after and let us know what they receive from us and the dates etc.
The droppers are self employed and as we charge £30-£40 per thousand if you are with 2-3 other non competing leaflets or £90-£120 per thousand if you wish to be the sole leaflet we can afford to pay £60 per thousand so it's a figure that at least they feel it worthwhile to drop coupled with the fact a few of the droppers are mums who drop a few hours a day for a bit of pin money helps to know they are more likely to drop.