'Re-cycling' Junk Mail - send it to MacKenzie Hall

AGB863

Before I went on the preferential mailing service, and all the junk has stopped, I used to do what one person has already done, which was to send it all back to the company concerned except for, instead of using their prepaid envelope, send it in an envelope without a stamp - it costs them more to get the post this way!

keith_lard

Laughing BIG TIME!!!!

All mine will now be sent to Moorecroft Debt agency!!!!


hee hee.


k.

ixwood

I like it. Hit them in the only place they care about. Their pockets.

I personally rip mine up and throw in a compost box (usually an old cereal box) for the compost heap. It's all carbon, so works well with my old fish tank water which is full of nitrogen.

Badger_Lady

You do realise that if you send it back to the company with "I don't want any more junk mail", they actually stop sending it to you?

I mention this because I worked in Direct Mail for a financial services company a few years ago and it really frustrated me when people sent back shredded leaflets / fake details etc in the pre-paid envelope without any clue as to who they were.

It was obvious that these people didn't want to receive promotional mail but I couldn't do anything about it without at least their name and address, so they would continue to be sent unwanted letters...

It would have been so much more beneficial if they'd included their details so that I could remove them from the database!

rog2

keith_lard wrote: »

All mine will now be sent to Moorecroft Debt agency!!!!

Mackenzie Hall, Moorcroft, Lowell, or whichever DCA is giving you grief - it doesn't matter.
If they are on the mail preference service, this should only stop the original junk mail - the follow-ups, which would be personally addressed, should get through.
Just make sure you put a name on the 'request forms' - a telephone number would be good, too, that way they can find out what it's like to get unwanted phone calls at all hours.

moonrakermagpie

keith_lard wrote: »

Laughing BIG TIME!!!!

All mine will now be sent to Moorecroft Debt agency!!!!


hee hee.


k.

Are moocroft on your christmas card list - or have they registered to be removed!!!!

Cheers Steve

custardy

immoral_angeluk wrote: »

We're supposedly on the mail preference service but we still get tonnes of crap usually junk 'hand delivered by royal mail for your personal attention'
What a pile of the proverbial...

unfortunatly thats households(D2D) items not mail.you need to opt out via customer services.

custardy

Badger_Lady wrote: »

You do realise that if you send it back to the company with "I don't want any more junk mail", they actually stop sending it to you?

I mention this because I worked in Direct Mail for a financial services company a few years ago and it really frustrated me when people sent back shredded leaflets / fake details etc in the pre-paid envelope without any clue as to who they were.

It was obvious that these people didn't want to receive promotional mail but I couldn't do anything about it without at least their name and address, so they would continue to be sent unwanted letters...

It would have been so much more beneficial if they'd included their details so that I could remove them from the database!

maybe in your case but i still get mail for people who moved years ago.
either marked by customers or condemed by me as gone away.
the same letters just keep coming