Soon to be Mum & Door Callers

li'l_p

I am due to have a baby; due date is 21 June but obviosuly could come anytime between now and beyond.

I have been on maternity leave for the past 5 weeks and the number of people we have leaflet dropping and door-to-door sales is ridiculous! We have several clothing collection leaflets, fast-food menus and charity bags posted during the week! The other week I had just dozed off in the afternoon only for the letter box to go and wake me with quite a start. I know it's ony people posting stuff, but it still disturbs you all the same.

Once I have had the baby I will need all the rest I can get, and I certainly don't want the letterbox going all the time. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I could do to limit or stop this in any way. I have thought about putting a sign up but do these actually work???

Thanks in advance.

tessie_bear

iv got neighb ours who have signs up at the end of their drives..i think the signs are quite rude but ill ask them if they think they work and let u know

shellsuit

You don't live in my street do you?

Same here, all the way through my pregnancy when I was off on the sick and still since the baby was born (he's 5 weeks now)

Just last week we had 3 menus, 4 charity bags (and i use the term charity loosely) and 1 cold caller. It's a bloody nusciense and drives me up the wall!

P.S. Hope the rest of your pregnancy and the birth goes fine

SugarSpun

Stick a "no leaflets, brochures or free newspapers" sign on your letterbox. My parents have one and the only person to ignore it is the person who delivers a severely fundamentalist Christian newspaper telling them they're going to hell.

Evansangel

Put up a sign saying "no junk mail" and they shouldn't post. If they do, call the local number and have a rant. Or maybe selotape your letterbox after the postie has been in the morning?

If you do a sign you could mention the newborn baby in aswell so they know why

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li'l_p

shellsuit wrote: »

You don't live in my street do you?

Same here, all the way through my pregnancy when I was off on the sick and still since the baby was born (he's 5 weeks now)

Just last week we had 3 menus, 4 charity bags (and i use the term charity loosely) and 1 cold caller. It's a bloody nusciense and drives me up the wall!

P.S. Hope the rest of your pregnancy and the birth goes fine

I am on the Wirral, too!!!

shellsuit

li'l_p wrote: »

I am on the Wirral, too!!!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I'm in Bebington, are you by any chance? lol

SailorSam

Does anyone read the pizza and taxi junk mail.
I can't be the only one that take it straight from the front door to the bin at the back.

becs

If the signs don't work what about a letter box on the wall outside and seal up the one in the door, at least you wouldn't be disturbed by that one. We've been away for 4 days and came home to 3 clothing collection bags and 2 fast food leaflets and this was a quiet week!

poet123

When I worked from home this drove me mad. Two or three times a week the doorbell would ring and somone would be selling, doing a survey, reading the meter, etc etc. Always seemed to be just as I had settled down to do a difficult task too!

tori.k

I have a sign that says, nightshift worker do not ring bell, its untrue but i dont have a problem anymore, the no cold caller sign never seemed to work..