No junk mail sign

lisawood78

My 'No junk mail' sticker is on the letterbox flap and it stops very few.

I do like the charity bags though, free bin liners!

Paul_Varjak

This site has useful info on how to stop junk mail. It also has some stickers to put on your letterbox.

http://www.stopjunkmail.org.uk/guide/default.php

bargainbetty

I did go through a phase of looking through the junk mail to find any pre-paid envelopes from any company, and then filling them with as much of the junk mail as possible. Whenever I had a letter to post, I'd add the stuffed envelope to the pile.

Keeps the post office in business, spreads the word on behalf of your local pizza place, and lets the company know that their junk mail is at least being delivered.

Azari

bargainbetty wrote: »

I did go through a phase of looking through the junk mail to find any pre-paid envelopes from any company, and then filling them with as much of the junk mail as possible. Whenever I had a letter to post, I'd add the stuffed envelope to the pile.

Keeps the post office in business, spreads the word on behalf of your local pizza place, and lets the company know that their junk mail is at least being delivered.

LOL.

I don't find that much junk mail has a return envelope but I did use the same technique with a computer magazine I subscribed to some years ago. They would include three reply paid subscription cards with each magazine (even to subscribers). It was an absurd waste of paper so I dutifully returned them all.

I don't know if my actions had any effect but they cut the number of cards down to one after a couple of years at which point I desisted from my 'campaign'.

looker

Royal Mail gets paid for delivering all this junk mail

( Do what I do )

Collect all the junk mail that has been delivered by the royal mail with no address on it and the next time you pass a post box post it back to them free of charge.
If everybody started to do this Royal Mail might get the message.

:beer:

custardy

looker wrote: »

Royal Mail gets paid for delivering all this junk mail

( Do what I do )

Collect all the junk mail that has been delivered by the royal mail with no address on it and the next time you pass a post box post it back to them free of charge.
If everybody started to do this Royal Mail might get the message.

:beer:

all that effort on fonts
now go and do some research on who gets paid for what

custardy

fluffnutter wrote: »

MPS deals with direct marketing. This kind of stuff will have your name and address on it and will be targeted mailshots based on your purchasing history, albeit unsolicited. You can opt out of this by visiting the Mailing Preference Service website.

RM delivers unaddressed mail. It won't have your name on it, often it doesn't have the address either but will simply say 'To the Householder'. It will also have a printed frank mark in the right hand corner saying 'Delivered by Royal Mail' (or similar). You can also opt out of this by visiting the RM website.

Linkies:

http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/

http://www.royalmail.com/you-home/controlling-your-mail

well its unaddressed.so it most certainly wont have your address

savemoney

Waste of time using signs they either dont read them, dont think it applies to them or unable to read as they either illiterate or unable to read English or worse dont care

spartacusthe1st

It's not so much the paper junk mails it's just the charity bags it just does my head in all they have to do is read the sign and walk back down my path the other way. I think they do it on purpose, just to pee me off

davidlizard

Some friends of ours were having their hallway floor relaid and the builder had put some self-levelling mixture down so the wood would have a nice level surface to be added on.

To prevent mail from be delivered and falling into the setting solution, they taped up the letterbox, and put a notice on it.

This did not stop someone delivering chinese takeaway menus from peeling off the notice and the tape to deliver the junk mail, which then stuck fast into the self levelling solution.

So whatever you do, people will probably not take a blind bit of notice.

We have gates to our house, and the postbox is outside by the gates. After we have collected the post in the morning, we simply leave the bottom of the box open, so anyone who delivers their rubbish simply sees it fall straight out of the bottom again.