attract towers not working properly?

[wizzard_8]

Im noticing that items pulled to an attract tower are highly unlikely to be (never?) picked up by villagers. Mostly they just rot away next to the tower. If I pick up items at the tower myself and drop them out of range its usually a few moments before it sparkles and someone starts making their way to it to pick it up. Why was it being ignored for minutes while at the tower?
For example, I have a standing order to sell all leather goods at my marketplace and my tower is surrounded by leather items not being retrieved.

[Tiberiumkyle]

Do you have any organizers? Or perhaps not enough of them?

[wizzard_8]

I usually have 40-50 organisers. It happens at all stages of the game, day 3 to day 100, all maps.
Villagers can equip items from the tower, this is usually stuff like rations, water bottles and raw food (and maybe armours/swords) but they dont seem to move items from the tower to storage/market.
Edit: It seems that proximity to the front line (ie corruption) vastly discourages organisers from picking up items near it. When I move the towers far back from the corruption, while still slow, items are picked up.