Stopping ( Postal ) Junk Mail

The_3rd_Zebu

I seem to have acquired a massive pile of catalogues, brochures and magazines of late. Most of them were never intentionally subscribed to by me. Possibly some may have been as the result of me missing a tick box which should have been ticked or maybe just me getting confused by the trickery companies use when they compose these tick box box questions.

However once these catalogues have started arriving through one's letterbox I have found it its not always obvious how one goes about stopping them.

One example is the Titan Travel brochure. It is bulky and heavy. It comes about six times a year and there is no address where one writes to to get them to stop sending it. There is only and an address for returns should it fail to be delivered. I could send it there but I doubt if it would stop the flow of subsequent issues of the brochure.

These brochures are a real pain to recycle. You have strip of the plastic wrapping as well as making sure letters identify yourself are shredded. ........And after all that it often still all gets trashed anyway!


Has anyone else here had difficulties stopping Postal Junk Mail?

Moneybot

Send one back marked "return to sender - deceased". That usually does the trick.

2013yearofthehouse

I got to the point of getting several holiday brochures and clothes catalogues on a regular basis that I wasn't interested in, so I just googled each one and emailed them to ask to be removed from their mailing list. It worked and I don't get any of them anymore.

Here is the contact form for Titan: https://www.titantravel.co.uk/forms/web-chat

JamboDP

The green bin is a very good receptacle for them.

wingobins

When companies send me junk mail with pre-paid envelopes such as vanquish bank, I get a kick out of sending a pile of junk mail like pizza leaflets back to them in their pre-paid envelopes!

happysaz133

Titan and Cruise ship booklets come here every month! I just put them in the recycling. I can't seem to find a way of stopping them but its OK because I will move soon and they can be someone elses junk

2013yearofthehouse

happysaz133 wrote: »

Titan and Cruise ship booklets come here every month! I just put them in the recycling. I can't seem to find a way of stopping them but its OK because I will move soon and they can be someone elses junk

Have you tried messaging Titan using their contact form? I posted the link in post #3

morningpostie

Contact whoever it is online to ask to be removed off postal mailing lists, then stick them back in the postbox, with "Return to Sender" on them. Even if there is no return address, it'll get back to the sender. Businesses often remove from lists once they realise they're spending on postage to themselves.

If you just recycle/bin it, it'll keep coming.

See here also - https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/post/stop-getting-junk-mail/

mjm3346

morningpostie wrote: »

Contact whoever it is online to ask to be removed off postal mailing lists, then stick them back in the postbox, with "Return to Sender" on them. Even if there is no return address, it'll get back to the sender. Businesses often remove from lists once they realise they're spending on postage to themselves.

If you just recycle/bin it, it'll keep coming.

See here also - https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/post/stop-getting-junk-mail/

Unless it has changed the business will not get it back unless there is a return address on the envelope

Royal Mail is to destroy the undelivered post of businesses that fail to include a return address on their envelopes...."We are saying to businesses that if we have mail from you that is undeliverable and it has no return address on the back we will destroy the item".