Junk mail giving me the hump
Junk mail giving me the hump
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Lord Flashheart

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3,798 posts

214 months

Saturday 23rd August 2025
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I'm fortunate enough to own a holiday home near Deal in Kent. The letterbox 'was' a box on a 6ft fence into the garden from the street until I removed it, because every visit I'd find it absolutely jammed with junk mail. This had been happening for years, so I removed the letterbox entirely. I don't need any mail there, including the relentless and threatening TV licensing ones telling me I still don't have a licence. Now, the junk mail is either thrown over the fence or stuffed under the gate. This means I arrive to find paper all around the garden.
I'm now considering taking an entire bag of general home rubbish from my kitchen bin and emptying it on the floor of local pizza and kebab type businesses etc. Apart from the inevitable chase from a swarthy man brandishing a large knife, is there anything else I should consider? Your thoughts are always welcome.

sherman

14,781 posts

236 months

Saturday 23rd August 2025
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Set up a mail redirection.

Moving home? Don’t miss the mail that matters. | Royal Mail Group Ltd https://share.google/eO3Sl8Q6Z4tvmT9DP

You will need to renew it each year but it will stop you from having to clean up after each visit.


Badda

3,500 posts

103 months

Saturday 23rd August 2025
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And redirect it to the pizza shop!

trickywoo

13,448 posts

251 months

Saturday 23rd August 2025
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I could be wrong but I think he means the unaddressed flyers that fast food etc. places deliver.

Royal Mail won’t be pushing stuff under a fence, even the unaddressed flyers they get paid to deliver.

I’d put a note up saying strictly no junk mail, junk mail will be reported as fly tipping or something like that.

Lord Flashheart

Original Poster:

3,798 posts

214 months

Saturday 23rd August 2025
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trickywoo said:
I could be wrong but I think he means the unaddressed flyers that fast food etc. places deliver.

Royal Mail won’t be pushing stuff under a fence, even the unaddressed flyers they get paid to deliver.

I’d put a note up saying strictly no junk mail, junk mail will be reported as fly tipping or something like that.
I have considered the 'no junk mail' sign, but kind of expecting it to be ignored a bit like the ones Kent Councils put by the road telling people to 'Take your rubbish home, others do'. I just can't imagine that type of person giving a st. The junk mail we get is likely to be stuffed under the gate by someone who would struggle with the English language. I do think you're right though, it must be worth a sign before my inevitable appearance as a doner in the local kebab shop.

Jamescrs

5,722 posts

86 months

Saturday 23rd August 2025
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Set up some kind of letter box in the gate which has a large catch box at the other side you can deposit directly in a bin when you arrive?

Fashion some kind of drop from letterbox directly to a recycling bin?

You can’t stop the people who drop flyers leaving them realistically

RGG

957 posts

38 months

Saturday 23rd August 2025
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I think your only real life solution is a bigger box back in the original position

Nothing else is going to work.

SimonKD

1,386 posts

252 months

Saturday 23rd August 2025
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I’d probably just stick up a clear “no junk mail” sign on the gate or even get one of those cheap lockable post boxes so it all stays in one place. Saves the hassle of paper blowing everywhere and you don’t have to turn it into a war with the local takeaway lads.

kambites

70,350 posts

242 months

Sunday 24th August 2025
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Putting a sign up certainly wouldn't hurt!

Maybe not everyone will take notice of it, but some certainly will.

Paul Drawmer

5,094 posts

288 months

Sunday 24th August 2025
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this will help..but not the hand delivered flyers.

https://help.royalmail.com/personal/s/article/How-...

Watcher of the skies

1,033 posts

58 months

Sunday 24th August 2025
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Colin Furze invented a device that might help.

CoolHands

21,981 posts

216 months

Sunday 24th August 2025
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£1.99. Screw it to your fence

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130866784976?


wyson

3,899 posts

125 months

Sunday 24th August 2025
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Furbo

2,868 posts

53 months

Sunday 24th August 2025
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Badda said:
And redirect it to the pizza shop!
Much of it is delivered by hand.

Alickadoo

3,207 posts

44 months

Sunday 24th August 2025
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CoolHands said:
£1.99. Screw it to your fence

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130866784976?

What about religious canvassers, you know, like J*h*v*h's W*tn*ss*s?

A500leroy

7,560 posts

139 months

Sunday 24th August 2025
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Buy a wheelie bin, put a post in here sign on it, wheel it out to be collected by the bin men when your there.

CoolHands

21,981 posts

216 months

Sunday 24th August 2025
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Alickadoo said:
CoolHands said:
£1.99. Screw it to your fence

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130866784976?

What about religious canvassers, you know, like J*h*v*h's W*tn*ss*s?
They don’t make it down to Deal. It’s full of second-home owning Londoners!

Lord Flashheart

Original Poster:

3,798 posts

214 months

Sunday 24th August 2025
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A500leroy said:
Buy a wheelie bin, put a post in here sign on it, wheel it out to be collected by the bin men when your there.
biglaughbiglaugh

Lord Flashheart

Original Poster:

3,798 posts

214 months

Sunday 24th August 2025
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wyson said:
thumbup

anonymous-user

75 months

Sunday 24th August 2025
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Any junk mail with pre-paid envelopes, just put any old rubbish in it and post it