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unwanted leaflet
I've just received the February 2014 issue of Gardeners' World magazine and was surprised to find 19 leaflets included with the magazine. I know that companies like to advertise in this way but 19 leaflets in one magazine is ridiculous especially as I received 6 copies of the same leaflet! It would be interesting to know if other people have received large amounts of leaflets with their magazines. In a time when we are encouraged to cut down on waste and recycle we shouldn't be receiving so much unwanted mail.
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Unfortunately, I think that in these days of advertising deals, it goes with the territory that if you run a magazine (as I did many years ago) part of the advertiser's terms was to include flyers etc. I do agree that there are far too many though. yet as ever it is a cheap method of advertising. What I wish is that inserts would actually have something to do with the reading material. I am sick of receiving disability aid info for the garden when I am keeping fit actually gardening!!
dear T-N, yes, do look at the Parkers booklet but please don't order anything from them! They tell fibs by photographing things together that cannot grow together and flower months apart. Their plants are often small and sick, and iris rhizomes arrived mouldy and slimy. The varieties have not always been correct either - I would admire the silly pictures and then dump it! Learned several years ago that this one gets binned!
Well, to be fair, I have had some excellent shrubs from Parkers at very good prices. As for all the leaflets, I really enjoy some of them. It's true I'm not ready for a stairlift yet but when I am, I'll know where to get one.
That is exactly what I thought when I opened the magazine, there seemed even more than usual and then you get to the middle and more spill out! The magazine itself is full of adverts, do they really need all the flyers as well?! I've also had bad experiences with J Parkers. Rotten plug plants and even sending the wrong plugs which you don't realise until you've grown them on.
You can either put up with having al those leaflets and just quietly bin them or risk having to pay more for your magazine. Those advertising fees subsidise its production.
You can either quietly put up with having all those leaflets and just recycle them or risk having to pay more for your magazine. Those advertising fees subsidise its production.
And sometimes mistakes happen and an extra one appears - be it leaflet or post
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Besides, it keep site poor postal workers in business as they carry them up our hill, and the waste collectors as they carry them down again!! So much for trying to save what is left of the planet! However, it is the same with most magazines these days, especially in Spring!