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(BRISBANE) Get Your Library Fees Waived by Bringing in A Can of Food!

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(BRISBANE) Get Your Library Fees Waived by Bringing in A Can of Food!
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tomatosauce on 02/12/2012 - 16:39 gcast.com.au (358 clicks)

I just received an email from Brisbane City Council as follow;

Do you, or someone you know, have overdue library books or library items at
home?
Do you, or someone you know, have overdue or outstanding hold fees on a library
membership card?

If so, then take advantage of Brisbane City Council's amnesty on overdue fees.

Visit a local library before 31 December 2012, return any overdue items and
bring in a can(s) of food to have any overdue fees waived.
If library items have already been returned but the fees have not been paid,
it's not too late.
Bring in a can(s) of food and the existing overdue and hold fees will also be
waived - it's that easy.

All canned food will be donated to charity.

For more information please contact Council on 07 3403 8888 or your local Council
library.

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    • PainToad on 02/12/2012 - 21:30
      +14

      Seriously? You keep books from others kids to avoid paying a few bucks? Not only is that completely unorganised and pathetic, it's down right selfish. Grow up and take responsibility for your actions.

      • Japius on 02/12/2012 - 22:37
        +2

        Lol seriously? You think we keep them until the amnesty? You do understand how the fees work right? Your a day or two late they add a fee, if its a DVD they add a much larger fee. You still return the items lol

        The amnesty is for people who have fees and it lets you waive the fees in return for donating food to the needy.

        • heatseeker424 on 02/12/2012 - 23:22

          Or you could just go and reborrow it?

        • PainToad on 03/12/2012 - 08:47

          Once again, take responsibility for actions. I really hope you don't tell your kids about your little loop whole for getting out of paying fines, surely you are better role models than that?

        • martyn on 03/12/2012 - 10:03

          Do you know how easy it is to renew? All you have to do is log in online and click a renew button.

    • Marrk on 03/12/2012 - 16:05
      +1

      Everyone should stop bitching about this comment. Waiting to donate a couple of cans to charity instead of paying your late fees is not the end of the world, nor a bad thing to do.. you end up making a bigger difference..

      It is also funny how those bitching have not given this deal a deserved +.

  • OzTravis on 02/12/2012 - 17:17
    +23

    Cool initiative by Brisbane council +1

  • downhillmtbr on 02/12/2012 - 18:14

    Just a Heads up, this deal is Valid at the Geelong Regional Libraries Corporation for December

  • moolah on 02/12/2012 - 18:27
    +9

    Would this do?
    http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/80618

    • arcticmonkey on 02/12/2012 - 22:53
      +7

      Coles/WW home brand crap should be banned.

    • slowmo on 03/12/2012 - 12:35
      +1

      they said food.. not rubbish.

      • leiiv on 03/12/2012 - 22:16

        Are you saying that a lot of people eat rubbish?

        • slowmo on 04/12/2012 - 01:23

          yes. if they want to eat rubbish even they can afford otherwise is not my problem, however this is for donations/charity. don't compound problems to society by feeding the poor more crap.

  • auBaskerville on 02/12/2012 - 19:24

    The council I work for is doing this across all the shire's libraries too, can I point out that perhaps this is an Australia wide thing?

    • dazeller on 02/12/2012 - 20:08
      +2

      a) which shire do you work for then ?
      b) my local council (Kingston VIC) doesn't do it. So perhaps not an Australia wide thing?

  • SydStrand on 02/12/2012 - 19:56
    +10

    Been meaning to return Tropic of Cancer.

  • MrsJools on 02/12/2012 - 20:05

    Love it! :)

    • MATTDAMON on 02/12/2012 - 22:02
      +8

      Don't be a clown, it's for a good cause and getting fees waived is a bit more incentive to give to the less fortunate.

      • The Gent on 03/12/2012 - 01:12
        +6

        Wait till people start asking if it's tax deductible. [rolls eyes]

    • leiiv on 03/12/2012 - 22:14

      I cannot even find the expire date for some type of the canned food

  • revo on 02/12/2012 - 22:28
    +5

    It's a trap! The Security Guards will be waiting…

  • dealman on 03/12/2012 - 08:42
    -1

    Guys,
    Would like your views on this but in principle I don't agree with this deal.

    Now if all the Councils wanted was to give for charity, They could just collect the fees "in Cash" and buy and distribute food in bulk , much more efficient and cost effective than transporting individual parcels of random food bought at full retail price.

    Also in our city council they will take any amount of food for the fines, so the donations are not proportional to the fines.
    I saw someone with a $20 + fine get off with just 2 *3 litre juice bottles. 20$ fine paid in kind with a max 7$ in kind donation I think the guy got a better deal and the charity / Library / council rate payers got screwed.

    More importantly the council is being generous with the rate payers money (OPM, other people's money), I'd rather have a choice as to where the money goes and how it is spent.

    What do you think. The only caveat to this is people who give more than what they are due in fines with the thought of giving. I'd just hate for this to become a way for people to get a massive discount on the fines owed.

    I'd be very interested in the net efficiency of this operation.

    Fines owed in $ / approximate value of food collected in $ = ??

    • PainToad on 03/12/2012 - 08:49
      +5

      It's not really about charity at all, it's about getting drop kick losers who would never pay anyway off their books to make their accounting/administration easier for the new year.

      • dealman on 03/12/2012 - 09:14
        +2

        it's about getting drop kick losers who would never pay anyway ??

        Can't we ban them from the library so they don't repeat the same thing again next year, this is a bloody yearly event now and the behaviour this will lead to is people accumulating fines to the end of the year when they go scott free with a couple of bottles of juice. And if people have significant fines can't they be brought to pay / increasing fines like they do with every other god damn fine in the country.

        I've revoked my neg, as this is a genuine deal as far as OZB is concerned, but still it's a rip off for the general ratepayers.

        I don't see the speed cameras office clearing accounts at the end of the year.

        • PainToad on 03/12/2012 - 09:26

          100% agree.

        • cannedhams on 03/12/2012 - 12:55

          If you have fees in excess of $8.00, you can't borrow any more books. At least this is the case at BCC libraries.

          I keep my fines marginally below $8 for that reason, maybe I'll go and buy a tin of tomatoes and get the whole amount waived.

        • dealman on 03/12/2012 - 16:14

          If you have fees in excess of $8.00, you can't borrow any more books. At least this is the case at BCC libraries.

          True, similar rules apply at most other libraries.

  • hollytaylor on 03/12/2012 - 10:12
    +1

    Sounds like an awesome idea, I have unpaid fees on my library card from returning books late. They should deffo introduce this idea in Melbourne.

    • PainToad on 03/12/2012 - 11:40
      +1

      You should "deffo" get your act together and/or pay the fines.

  • nimnomnimy on 03/12/2012 - 11:19
    +8

    I wish the council would do this for parking fines :)
    I'd rather give $50 of food to the homeless than pay a ticket for parking 10mins too long in an empty street

    • The Gent on 03/12/2012 - 13:19

      Well said.

  • phamid on 03/12/2012 - 21:17
    +2

    I liked it because it's now hit 100 :D

  • chyawala on 18/12/2012 - 17:44

    Now the question is what is the cheapest can of food?

    • MATTDAMON on 18/12/2012 - 19:34

      Dont be stupid. They are being given to members of society that arent well off, so stop being a tightwad and give a little, who knows you may even feel nice about it afterwards.

    • dealman on 06/01/2013 - 11:19

      Now the question is what is the cheapest can of food?

      This is precisely why I negged this deal in the first place !

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