Our city leaders are against having voters show a picture ID, which should be mandatory, yet in order for homeowners to put their trash pick up on hold, haulers are requiring a doctor’s note, copy of a plane ticket, hotel receipt or some other obnoxious proof that the person is not home.

First, it’s no one’s business where I am or why I want to put my trash pick up on hold. What if an elderly or disabled person is unable to put the containers down on a given pick up day? What will the city and haulers do? Call the police?

The next thing you know is they’ll demand a DNA sample to confirm it’s your trash!

This can only happen in St. Paul.

Jacqueline Heintz, St. Paul