Junk mail !

Bun

Thanks for your advice Wig, have only told one company I have the address, won't fall into that trap again!
Bun

Iona_Penny

For ages now I have put all the junk mail back into the pre-paid envelope and sent it to:
Direct Mailing Association, Margaret St. London
This is the company that produces the list of names and addresses which it sells to companies that then send out the 'junk' (got this address off a Watchdog programme I think)

Anyway recently I had a letter from them thanking me for my 'complaint' and telling me to fill in this form and I would be removed from the list. I put minimal information on the form and will wait and see what happens!!

Wig

Iona,

The Mailing preference service definately does work, we don't get any named addressed junk mail here.

Miroslav

Along the similar lines of the OP

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=55907

See section 3

izzitme

Bun wrote:

Does anybody know if this will work on post for previous occupiers? Trying desperately not to rant, I have had to call the CAB re the unpaid bills which are still being delivered to me for the last owner - she has clearly ignored any post I have redirected over the last few months and they say not to send it on any more. I have returned to sender if there is an address on the envelope, but they are now arriving in anonymous second class junk mail looking envelopes. The CAB recommended I now send EVERYTHING back marked 'Not known at this address' and the post office will deal with it. My postman did ask and took some away for me last week, but she has several names so it keeps coming. It would be great if the stuff doesn't actually get to me at all.... Does the post office open it and send it back to sender?

Thanks in advance
Bun

You could do the same as for the unaddressed mail, but request that only mail for your surname is delivered to the address. Again a note is put with the Redirection instructions & we SHOULD remove any mail not for these names.

Any mail that is returned as Gone Away or Not Known etc, is either returned direct by us if there is a return address, or sent to a special office in Belfast where they have permission to open mail to try & find the sender's address to return it. My boss tells me that it is illegal to open mail not addressed to you, even if it is posted through your door.

Hope this helps.
P.S. Most of the workers agree with the thread stating that Leighton & Crozier should not have been paid bonuses, but, naturally, we are delighted to have received our £1074. The job is not as easy aas many people think, but with a bit of training most normal people could do it. It's just the early mornings & the pouring rain & the snow & the hail etc etc that gets you down. (And the public moaning about not getting something when it is not correctly addressed. Some of the stuff we DO deliver has to be seen to be believed).

SidB_2

I like my postman, he's a diamond. We once had a card frpm my wife's senile grandmother addressed to her at "Mrs B*****, Don't know the address, Lives opposite Mrs B*****, Who has a white dog, Haddenham, Bucks." And we got it ! Amazing.

bpyoung

I'm toying with the idea of including some finely ground almonds next time I return junk mail. Why? Well cyanide is supposed to smell like almonds, so if the person opening the envelope is well-versed in Agatha Christie... choas should ensue.

mrcow

bpyoung wrote:

I'm toying with the idea of including some finely ground almonds next time I return junk mail. Why? Well cyanide is supposed to smell like almonds, so if the person opening the envelope is well-versed in Agatha Christie... choas should ensue.

Mmm.....there's a big difference between making the companies pay for the return postage of their own junkmail to causing a full blown terrorist alert (which in these paranoid days could ensue).

bpyoung

Can't see the problem. Causes plenty of disruption for the company and gives the doubtless bored-!!!!less anti-terror squads something to do.