Junk leaflets and cards

GMbabies

We stuck "No Junkmail" sticker on the letter box but pizza takeaway and taxi firms ignore it and leave cards and leaflets. The thing is, they are also littering our front path as well as putting them through in our letter box. I am truely fed up with it and thought about writing to each and every one of them that next time they do it, I'll be sending them a fine of £200 or whatever.... Has anyone done this?

eyelinerprincess

You can't "fine" anyone. You can send an invoice but local firms will probably laugh at it.

GMbabies

eyelinerprincess wrote: »

You can't "fine" anyone. You can send an invoice but local firms will probably laugh at it.

I will send them an invoice then.
If they don't pay, I'll take them to court. It only cost £70 to register for small claim...still pocket £130 if I bill them for £200 which should go towards cleaning cost. Who knows may be I can make a living out of this because there are so many different companies. :mad:

eyelinerprincess

And how have you come up with this £200 cost exactly?

rocking69

GMbabies wrote: »

I will send them an invoice then.
If they don't pay, I'll take them to court. It only cost £70 to register for small claim...still pocket £130 if I bill them for £200 which should go towards cleaning cost. Who knows may be I can make a living out of this because there are so many different companies. :mad:

:rotfl:

I agree! I absolutely hate junk mail/emails. There are then emails that dont have the unsuscribe option, that really annoys me. :mad:

cte1111

You would need to show that you had lost money or incurred costs because of the leafleting. Not sure you could demonstrate sensibly how chucking some leaflets in the recycling would cost £200.

phill99

The reason you are still getting junk mail forced through your letterbox is that the people delivering them probably don't read English!

GMbabies

cte1111 wrote: »

You would need to show that you had lost money or incurred costs because of the leafleting. Not sure you could demonstrate sensibly how chucking some leaflets in the recycling would cost £200.

Well may be I should stick a sign that says "£1000 fine for littering" too. Just like some private parking space or council does it. They come to litter our front and expect to get business from us? I don't think so. Whether someone is coming to dump black bin bags or leaflet, rubbish is rubbish to me.

rocking69

I think you can stop junk mail but I dont know about unaddressed letters...from pizza places etc...

GMbabies

phill99 wrote: »

The reason you are still getting junk mail forced through your letterbox is that the people delivering them probably don't read English!

That's not my problem quite frankly phill.
It's the firm who hires employees who can understand simple English or instruct them to watch out for such sticker. But they are not even sticking it in the letter box. First, I noticed a few taxi cards, then next day it grew more in numbers. (They are not replicating themselves, another taxi firm's :mad:)

GMbabies

rocking69 wrote: »

I think you can stop junk mail but I dont know about unaddressed letters...from pizza places etc...

But they are littering our front garden.