JUNK MAIL

Loraine3 · October 2021

I just used to write 'gone away, address unknown' and put back in the post box. If you do this you must cross out the orange code lines on the envelope or it will come back to you!

Fairygirl · October 2021

I think the sign says 'no junk mail', but I know you can get that from the council, like the no cold caller one. Quite a lot of folk round here have them.
I just had a look at the R. Mail site and it seems to be more of an opt out thing rather than the sign, so maybe I misunderstood what he said.
Our postmen are very good round here though, so I doubt they'd ignore the signs, unlike the folk who constantly put those charity bags through the door despite endless emails.

I got fed up writing return to sender on the mail for previous owner, so hopefully the junk mail content will work!

Pete.8 · October 2021

I get on very well with my posite.
Ages ago I mentioned I get fed up with all the junk mail, he said - no problem, I'll put a green sticker on your address and you won't get any more.
Had no JM from the postie in 2-3 years now
And more importantly saved a bit of a tree somewhere

I have a NO LEAFLETS PLEASE sticker on my letterbox and that mostly works too.

So all I get now is the regular clothes bags, which I put in the recycle bin.

Doghouse Riley · October 2021

In my experience few people delivering flyers etc., through your door, read notices. Not even postmen.

Putting any on your front door is for the most part a waste of time.

Most who deliver stuff through your door are on "time and finish."

Fairygirl · October 2021

Indeed @Pete.8. Our posties are very good too. You've probably saved more than one tree by now

I'm surprised you can recycle the clothing bags though. We can't recycle those here. They're no use for anything which is really annoying too. I haven't had one for a while thankfully. They hack me off more than anything. R***y plastic.

We certainly don't get any cold callers at all which is good. Used to get those all the time, and I do see them arriving in little groups in a van. I wonder if it's still double glazing - it was always that in the past.

Dovefromabove · October 2021

Postmen have to deliver what they’re told to. It’s their job.

Leaflet delivery folk may or may not take notice of your notices but postmen must not.

If you want to stop unaddressed ‘junk mail’ being delivered by the postman you have to notify your local Royal Mail Sorting Office see here https://www.aconsideredlife.co.uk/2019/05/stopping-junk-mail-and-dealing-with-paper-clutter.html?m=1.

But this will not prevent mail with your address on it from being delivered. That has to be stopped at source. As I said … email the sender.

Fire · October 2021

Putting up a 'not junk mail' sign on my front door did make a big difference for getting fliers through the door. It was not a total solution but it did help a lot for pizza and window cleaning junk etc.

For personally addressed catalogues etc, as said above, it's an illegal use of your data if you say that you don't want it. After my parents died I spent the time phoning all the companies to formally remove their addresses from their lists and actively delete the info that they no long had permission to hold. My mum in her last years had hundreds of catalogues coming in, so it took quite some time but worth it. It worked. Pretty much none came in after a while. It's a huge waste of paper plastic, postal time, transport etc. Stopping it is important. My taking her name off the catalogue listings ensured that they would stop after we sold the house too.

I take quite a heavy "it's illegal" line these days re data.

If buying anything online, make very sure that you tick all the boxes that say

I do not want any junk sent to me

I do not want newsletters, news of discounts, vouchers, blog links or anything else

I do not want to register

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I have sheets of sticky labels printed up. Now I whack one on a seed catalogue and send it back. It works pretty well. I always tick "I do not want your promo materials" online, so I don't get much.

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Fairygirl · October 2021

Yes - they're legally contracted to deliver it @Dovefromabove, unless you take the appropriate action.

Pete.8 · October 2021

Fairygirl said:

I'm surprised you can recycle the clothing bags though. We can't recycle those here. They're no use for anything which is really annoying too. I haven't had one for a while thankfully. They hack me off more than anything. R***y plastic.

I don't know that they can recycle them, but generally I put anything with a recycle logo in the recycle bin.
If they don't recycle recyclable stuff then they should - is my motto

The only JM I get now arrives with one of the magazines I subscribe to

Fairygirl · October 2021

I think that's part of the problem though @Pete.8 - not every area has the same facilities for recycling. We certainly couldn't put them in with the other plastics.
It would help enormously if there was consistency with all these things. How they can ever hope to get on top of these problems without that sort of basic service, is anyone's guess

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