Where those services drop off, when you want to get something complex — handle all my emails — that isn't gonna work for a request like that.
Those without the special bins must cart their recyclable garbage to one of just nine full-service drop-off depots in the city.
"At least once a month my wife and I jump in our car and drive until cell service drops off (yes, this is possible) and spend the weekend engaged with all things analog," Evan Sharp, a founder of Pinterest, said — on e-mail.
And that is not only because a boutique catering service dropped off organic apples, cured ham, and gluten-free cookies (It's true we are living a cliché somewhere between Portlandia and Girls).
Post-pizza, I strolled over to the ice cream store where my daughter is working (yet another Butler working in food service) to drop off her dinner.
Corporations don't quite have the luxury of having their services just drop off the grid and not operating for a while.
You can also look into "self move" services, which drop off a containing unit, let you load it at your leisure, and pick it up and transport it for you.
Using a cellphone in Los Angeles, you could open the door of your house in New York so that a delivery service driver could drop off a package, then lock the door after him.
My daughter seemed to take the information in easily, so much so that my own grieving in the private gym bathroom, on the steps of the memorial service after dropping off a quiche, felt excessive.
"But you're not going to get the same level of service, where you'd drop off a roll of film at 2 p.m. and have it back the next day," he said.
