Junk leaflets and cards

rocking69

GMbabies wrote: »

But they are littering our front garden.

I know!!! Tell me about it! If you go on stopjunkmail.org it only lets us stop mail with our name on it or to the ocuppier, problem is, pizza menus are not addressed at all!
So I dont know what the law says about that......

And I have the same problem with emails that dont 'let you' unsuscribe

GMbabies

rocking69 wrote: »

I know!!! Tell me about it! If you go on stopjunkmail.org it only lets us stop mail with our name on it or to the ocuppier, problem is, pizza menus are not addressed at all!
So I dont know what the law says about that......

And I have the same problem with emails that dont 'let you' unsuscribe

I can imagine we are not the only ones that are annoyed obviously and I don't know why people haven't tried to take offenders to court!? May be some people have but we don't know about it perhaps. Council takes flytippers to court if they can gather evidence and I think same law applies to us because these business are technically flytipping in our garden. It might cost me a few hundred pound for legal letter to be drafted but once the template letter is drafted I just need to enter different company details and send it out. £1000 a go, I should be able to ask a solicitor to draft this for me.

I don't have so much problem with email junk as I give out junk address initially and once I know the website is not dodgy I might change it to my real email address. But true, quite few of them have no 'unsubscribe' button or like Youtube even if you untick, they'll tick it themselves

SpammyTheSpammer

We keep the paper recycling bin by the front door....

pmduk

If you were to take them to court, you'd need to prove the amount you'd lost. You can;t just pluck an imaginary figure from thin air. Picking up a piece (or pieces) of paper is the work of a few seconds and the cost to you so minimal, you'd be awarded pennies, if anything. The court would be seriously unhappy at your wasting their time on a relative triviality.

battleborn

I too am sick of the constant flow of pizza menu's through my letterbox.
We should start putting our junk back through their letter box.

warwicktiger

One mans mail is another mans business....!!

I pay a leaflet deliverer to leaflet for me, costs me a lot but it does bring in business. Does make me laugh sometimes when I go to a house to quote following a call sparked by a leaflet to see a "No junk mail" or similar on the door.

On a different tack get in touch with the post office, you can get the ones delivered by them stopped.

custardy

warwicktiger wrote: »

One mans mail is another mans business....!!

I pay a leaflet deliverer to leaflet for me, costs me a lot but it does bring in business. Does make me laugh sometimes when I go to a house to quote following a call sparked by a leaflet to see a "No junk mail" or similar on the door.

On a different tack get in touch with the post office, you can get the ones delivered by them stopped.

Try Royal Mail and you may have more success....

warwicktiger

custardy wrote: »

Try Royal Mail and you may have more success....

oops, showing my age again!

eyelinerprincess

pmduk wrote: »

If you were to take them to court, you'd need to prove the amount you'd lost. You can;t just pluck an imaginary figure from thin air. Picking up a piece (or pieces) of paper is the work of a few seconds and the cost to you so minimal, you'd be awarded pennies, if anything. The court would be seriously unhappy at your wasting their time on a relative triviality.

That is, unless the OP can prove they are worth £210,000,000 a year*.

*If it takes OP 30 seconds to bin the junk mail.

RosiPossum

Maybe complain to the company?
I'd love to store up my junk mail and put it through the offenders' doors