Junk mail getting beyond a joke

[danielf]

Originally Posted by carlwaring

And where's the law that says the RM have to honour these requests? What action can you take if they ignore the stickers?

The idea's okay but the implementation needs improving

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See. I knew I should have read every post before replying

As I said, it does need people taking it up in order for it to become sucessful. I'm sure RM will take note when half the population slaps a sticker on the letter box (half may be a tad ambitious, but from memory a third isn't wide off the mark in Holland). I should add that (when I was living there anyway), Dutch RM didn't deliver unaddressed mail.

Either way: seeing there's little to lose, the OP might as well give it a try. It may not stop the postie who, as Sirius said, has to deliver the junk, but it might stop some other junk.

[Blackened]

Originally Posted by danielf

This problem was solved ages ago in Holland. Many people have a sticker on their letterbox stating they don't want any unsolicited/unaddressed mail. Actually, there's two versions, depending on wether or not you want free 'newspapers'. There's a no/no and a no/yes sticker.

All that's needed is for people to take this up and actually start putting these stickers on their letter box so word gets out.

http://www.stopjunkmail.org.uk/

Either way: it might be worth a punt at £1 for a sticker and 50 P&P for any number of stickers?

Yeah, I agree it's a good idea in principal and I'm pleased for anyone it works for, but we have one in the porch window - no canvassers/leaflets kind of thing. It doesn't stop them. Canvassers say sorry, didn't see that and leaflet distributors just ignore it. We get a lot, and it does bug me sometimes, but once you get into a mindset not to let it bug you, it tends not to. I have to think oh well, someone's getting paid peanuts they obviously need to deliver these, so what the hell. They don't care what you do with them or if you want them or not. Not worth getting worked up over. I just collect it all in a box in the porch and pick it up on the way to recycling. We get on average 3 leaflets every single day. Maybe if local councils adopted a certain stance they'd be more successful but then there's the argument that local businesses would suffer I suppose?

What bugs me more is canvassers calling after say 7pm. I don't know about anyone else but when you've been at work all day, had your evening meal and relaxing/sorting the kids out for bed etc you don't want someone banging on your door. I appreciate they're trying to catch people actually in, but it has to be counter productive in that respect. Bothering people in the evening in their down time isn't going to prompt them to be more interested surely. More like the opposite. I tried speaking to a persistent company once over their sales people and their response was it's not a designated no cold calling zone so they're within their rights. They weren't interested in the idea that (in the most part) it wasn't likely to be effective.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Russ

I've been telling people about this for 16 years and this is the first time anyone has got so upset about it.

Who is upset, I've already told you I have no links to RM, I was trying to help out by pointing out what your doing is probably illegal.

[Russ]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Who is upset, I've already told you I have no links to RM, I was trying to help out by pointing out what your doing is probably illegal.

Thank you for your observation.

[v0id]

Originally Posted by Sirius

I had something like that and the postman still posted it, I asked him WHY and he said it was a sackable offense to not deliver it.

So all i do if there is a return envelope is send them back the mail they dumped on me, I rename the envelope so it gets returned to the Royal mail sorting office in Warrington

Posties don't like delivering it but it could also be a sackabale offence to tell people about how to opt-out
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/se....matthewtaylor

[ZrByte]

Originally Posted by v0id

Posties don't like delivering it but it could also be a sackabale offence to tell people about how to opt-out
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/se....matthewtaylor

You can tell as many people as you want, I did it all the time as a postie and I still do it now on the customer services at my local delivery office. What got that guy suspended and could have got him sacked was that he posted his own leaflet with advice on how to opt out to everyone on his walk and during working hours. For e.g. I know plenty of posties who deliver free papers but If you do it in your working hours or even in work uniform or using RM equipment you can get the sack, even if your walk follows the same route as your paper route, and even if no overtime is claimed for the additional time it would surely take.
Its something to do with misrepresenting royal mail and its interests.