Matt is the original PosterGuy and founder of the Information Distribution Network, (the other name for the PosterGuys which sounds more
impressive). He began putting up posters promoting his band The DADS in 1980
and then expanded to clubs, bars, restaurants, theaters, University events and
eventually national customers. Matt’s job is to organize the different routes
for the other Poster Guys and he visits the bulletin boards in the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro shopping centers, senior center, public library, laundromats, and
off-the-beaten-track locations. Matt has posted almost every campus in North Carolina and also NYC,Washington
DC, Princeton
NJ, San
Francisco, Montreal, Boston, and Florida from top to bottom. His favorite task is taking a
bulletin board that is disorganized and cluttered with out-of-date flyers and
making it neat and up-to-date. Some people think he is a fanatic but he just
believes in an orderly universe. Matt is in charge of billing and design and is
usually the guy you talk to on the phone. Matt is also the creator of GreeceTravel.com
Groves is the number two PosterGuy and has been with the company for about fifteen
years Groves
has done every campus and town at one time or another
and has traveled all over the state doing posters and as far as Atlanta. Groves’s job is simple now. He picks up his posters on
Wednesday and does Durham, beginning with the Bryan Center and West Campus and
then going to East Campus, 9th Street, Broad Street and Brightleaf
Square. Groves is one of the most popular musicians in the Triangle
and plays drums and bass with several well-known bands. He also tends bar at
the Cave. He still travels around the state for clients who want expanded
coverage as part of the nationwide network of posterguys.
Lee is the Chapel Hill Poster Guy and walks more than anybody in town except
maybe your mailman. It is his responsibility to pick up the posters from the
Skylight on Sunday morning and organize them for the downtown Chapel Hill kiosks
which are usually empty when he arrives and almost full when he leaves. On the
way home he stops at Weaver Street Market. Then on Monday and Tuesday he does
the UNC campus and the record stores, coffee shops and restaurants and cafes
with bulletin boards on Franklin and Rosemary streets and Carrboro. Wednesday
he does the UNC hospital and medical center bulletin boards. He saves Thursday
and Friday for any special jobs or menu distributions. Lee left the corporate
world to become a Poster Guy five years ago and says he will never go back.
Craig is the new PosterGuy, hand-picked by Groves and trained to provide the outstanding service the
company has a reputation for and….blah, blah, blah, etc. Being the new guy he
was given the task of posting in Raleigh, the toughest and most challenging route. Craig picks
up his posters on Thursday and stops at the Wholefoods on Wade Ave and Meredith
College before parking on Hillsborough Street and doing the NC State Campus then hitting the shops
and restaurants that have bulletin boards. He then does the same downtown, and Glenwood Ave and a couple of the surrounding cool areas. Some Raleigh clients leave their Posters at Nice Price Books for
him to pick up, post and deliver the rest to the other posterguys for their routes
which is more convenient than bringing them to Chapel Hill to be
posted in Raleigh .