Junk leaflets and cards

powerful_Rogue

GMbabies wrote: »

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?

Failing that, order a taxi, pizza, double glazing quote etc and when they arrive say you have changed your mind and tell them to tell their boss to stop ignoring the "No Junkmail" sticker - Might do the trick!

Slightly tounge in cheek

oxfordrocks

I seem to get charity sacks for clothes every few days.

I know it's for charity but sometimes I feel like filling them with little 'uns dirty nappies.

I just use them for lining the kitchen bin.

Santander_Problems

I have a sign on my door indicating no junk mail and a second sign which says we don't deal with doorstep traders.

Earlier this week, I received a visit from a female asking if I was interested in recliner chairs/beds. I asked her to respect my sign and leave but she would not take no for an answer. She claimed she saw the No junk Mail sign but said she did not see the sign indicating no doorstep traders. She leant against my front door when I went close it.

I took the company details, phoned them and said I was interested in their equipment. I was asked for my postcode and after giving only the first half of the post code they said they could send someone the same day. We arranged a convenient time.

The 'advisor' turned up 45 minutes early so I sent him packing, telling him to come back at the agreed time. He then spent 75 minutes in my home extolling the virtues of a rise/recline chair. The last 15 minutes were spent negotiating a price.

During his visit he showed me letters from 'satisfied' customers. Whilst he went out to his van to get the chair I photgraphed all the letters and later contacted the customers who wrote them!

It turned out they were genuine customers who had written commendations BEFORE receiving their product. They were not so happy after they received those products and had been unable to get their money back!! The oldest was aged 91 and the youngest 78.

motch

Santander_Problems wrote: »

I have a sign on my door indicating no junk mail and a second sign which says we don't deal with doorstep traders.

Earlier this week, I received a visit from a female asking if I was interested in recliner chairs/beds. I asked her to respect my sign and leave but she would not take no for an answer. She claimed she saw the No junk Mail sign but said she did not see the sign indicating no doorstep traders. She leant against my front door when I went close it.

I took the company details, phoned them and said I was interested in their equipment. I was asked for my postcode and after giving only the first half of the post code they said they could send someone the same day. We arranged a convenient time.

The 'advisor' turned up 45 minutes early so I sent him packing, telling him to come back at the agreed time. He then spent 75 minutes in my home extolling the virtues of a rise/recline chair. The last 15 minutes were spent negotiating a price.

During his visit he showed me letters from 'satisfied' customers. Whilst he went out to his van to get the chair I photgraphed all the letters and later contacted the customers who wrote them!

It turned out they were genuine customers who had written commendations BEFORE receiving their product. They were not so happy after they received those products and had been unable to get their money back!! The oldest was aged 91 and the youngest 78.

how much did you get it for?

Santander_Problems

motch wrote: »

how much did you get it for?

Don't really remember - I don't buy from doorstep traders - just like to waste their time.

A lot of the time I just spoke of my experience with other rise/recline chair companies, even telling him that I only called them to my house to trap them! When he mentioned one chair/bed company, I told him that I made a complaint about that company to the ASA which had been upheld.

I remained polite all the time, he must have thought I was just bored most of the time (because I was)

What really got my interest was when he said he worked as a Santander Bank Manager! I then told him all the fun I had with Santander a few years ago and the games I played with them!

By the time he left, he must have realised he had been 'had', especially when I phoned him to say that his dossier of satisfied customer letters had dropped behind the cushions on the settee and would he like to come and collect them?

Oh, I forgot to say, his whole visit was voice recorded!

shammyjack

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.

Its a pity you are not a " Yorkshire Tiger " . I would love to waste your time and wind you up !

fin7

oxfordrocks wrote: »

I seem to get charity sacks for clothes every few days.

I know it's for charity but sometimes I feel like filling them with little 'uns dirty nappies.

I just use them for lining the kitchen bin.

We get loads of them here too, sometimes 4 and 5 a day. I could use them to collect the junk mail in I suppose lol


Fin

warwicktiger

shammyjack wrote: »

Its a pity you are not a " Yorkshire Tiger " . I would love to waste your time and wind you up !

How would you waste my time? I've had as many scam callers as anyone else, and I pay others to deliver my leaflets anyway!

PS My name is made up of my location and my Football teams nickname, so maybe I am a Yorkshire Tiger!

CrazyChick80

I kinda understand your frustration. I saw someone from my bedroom window stuff a couple of leaflets between the latts on my gate, didn't even bother opening the gate or walking down the drive. Lo & behold it was a windy day & the leaflets blew off & into the garden. That's just bone idleness IMO!!! I don't mind the junk coming through the letterbox cos it instantly gets flung into the bin! It's just when they can't be blooming bothered even opening the gate & just tend to stick leaflets where they please that annoys the hell outa me..........:eek:
Don't think I'd seek legal action though, perhaps a little drastic, as all businesses do need some advertising & how else can they do it if they are a takeaway or blind fitting company? Maybe advertise on tv & annoy the hell outa you with a stupid gimmick such as "Go Compareeeeeeeeeeeee"??! Think I'd put up wi the leaflets!!!!!!!!!!

consultant31

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

My biggest beef is with charity bag distributors, especially the scam ones!! We must get 3-4 bags a week delivered here!

I don't mind getting these - I use them for my kitchen bin, they're just the right size

When I have a declutter, I use an ordinary black bin bag to take stuff to the charity shop!