Let someone else recycle your junk mail for free

consumers_revenge

to make you smile

coming up to 20 years back now but doing work experiene in one of the major life assurance companies.

guy got sooooooooo fedup with junk mail from them he posted something back via their freepost address all wrapped up neatly.

a full size breeze block :eek:

must have cost a bit :T

SABJ

heres a link to a site i accidently came accross and its all about this posting heehee not just mse who are p off with junk mail

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/prepaid.html

Mullhon2

Hi,
Just used Nex0's link: http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/
to register, just thought I'd let you know in case you didn't, that you need to register every five years

LittleVoice

Savethekipper wrote: »

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On a more serious note I have contacted my local council to see if they could do anything about the amount of menus that get posted through my door and they said they had no pwers. Seems a bit ridiculous to me as I receive at least one menu per day.

I believe that is because having a letter box is considered an invitation to receive items through it.

So you could seal up your letter box and collect your mail from PO - you could still get addressed junk mail but not the menus.

KittyPryde

I've never thought of menus as junk tbh, i keep them and when I fancy a takeaway i've got a lot to choose from . 'Normal' junk mail doesn't bother me but when i get 'deceptive' junk mail like 'you have won a cash amount, please phone or post blah blah', i always tear that up (minus my address bit) and send it back to them (without stamps) as i think they deserve it cuz i don't like to think of vulnerable people being taken in by stuff like that.

barmonkey

we have a small box behind the door and every bit of unaddressed (to the occupier) mail we get delivered by the postie goes into it and once a month i put it back in the post box.

marty-401

old_mans_knees wrote: »

This completely misses the point of the thread title as there is no 'recycling' involved in this strategy. While I hate spam junk mail as much as anyone, do you really think the original senders are going to recycle it when they receive it from you? Hmmmm, no, I think it's going straight in the general waste bin.

Just bite the bullet and drop it in your own recycle bin at home. It's annoying but it's not exactly hard, is it?

I believe the the almighty Eurocrats brought in a law to ensure businesses recycle waste (unlike households) but you are probably correct as most of them get ignored. May be I should change the title to "cheer yourself up for free!"

mimic1

my husband started doing this about ten years ago, it got to the point he was so enraged it almost became an obsession he had to stop as we now get so much junk mail he can't keep up with it. in an average week we get on roughly 40 or so junk food leaflets and about 10 other types of leaflets and thats not incuding the junkmail the postman brings.

spinks

You people are being quite kind just sending the junk mail back.

When I previously worked for a finance company our pre paid envelopes were more often than not stuffed with junk mail but the ones that really made us laugh were the ones containing "surprise gifts" such as cigarette ash, pornographic material, post it notes with obscene messages to name but a few.

The most offensive offering though was the poo, the poor girl who opened it certainly wasnt laughing (infact she was so traumatised she was sent home from work).

chickenboy

I have been sending the junk mail back for quite a while now. I carefully remove anything with my name & address (or anonymous looking reference numbers) on it as I would worry they'll only sign me up for more junk mail. I find this reduces the amount of waste paper I have to recycle, and should help deter these annoying companies from sending this rubbish out. I only use pre-paid envelopes from companies I don't like (yes, slightly subjective i know).

Anyway... I am equally insensed by all the packaging we get on our food. I don't buy too much junk food, but I still find the odd product with a ridiculous amount of extra packaging, which I have to find room for in my bin. The supermarkets have the power (theres no point us trying to persuade each individual manufacturer). If we stripped these products of their extra useless packaging at the till -- I remove pizza cardboard boxes, carboard wrappers around plastic trays etc (the only useful thing this contains is the temp and time to cook it for -- you can write this on the plastic with a CD-writing pen). Leave your waste cardboard at the till. If everyone did this, the supermarkets would soon start hassling their suppliers to produce less packaging.