Bloody junk mail
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Why is it I get told to drive 5 miles less every week to save the planet, yet these idiots are allowed to create millions of flyers for double glazing?
8 pieces of junk today, E I G H T. Non even addressed to anyone, just 'the occupier'. How much does it cost to recycle and reprint more flyers that no one reads, let alone the damage to the environment.
How's about you f
k off and let me drive to work and back to pay Tax on my car, petrol, road tax and my earning. And you stop the fkwits from producing, what I can only imagine, is more CO2 that 5 extra fking miles.
0/10 - I'm sure.
8 pieces of junk today, E I G H T. Non even addressed to anyone, just 'the occupier'. How much does it cost to recycle and reprint more flyers that no one reads, let alone the damage to the environment.
How's about you f
k off and let me drive to work and back to pay Tax on my car, petrol, road tax and my earning. And you stop the fkwits from producing, what I can only imagine, is more CO2 that 5 extra fking miles.0/10 - I'm sure.
I generally just fill up the prepaid envelopes with whatever junk I get and sent it back (ensuring there is nothing to identify me on it).
I go with the idea that if enough of us do it, it will begin to cost them too much to continue if they have to pay for the additional postage, handling & disposal.
I go with the idea that if enough of us do it, it will begin to cost them too much to continue if they have to pay for the additional postage, handling & disposal.
AndyAudi said:
I generally just fill up the prepaid envelopes with whatever junk I get and sent it back (ensuring there is nothing to identify me on it).
I go with the idea that if enough of us do it, it will begin to cost them too much to continue if they have to pay for the additional postage, handling & disposal.
I´ve been doing this for a few years...I go with the idea that if enough of us do it, it will begin to cost them too much to continue if they have to pay for the additional postage, handling & disposal.
http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/
Sign up to MPS. Junk mail is reduced considerably.
You can do the telephone one when you're there, takes seconds.
HTH.
Sign up to MPS. Junk mail is reduced considerably.
You can do the telephone one when you're there, takes seconds.
HTH.
The Black Flash said:
http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/
Sign up to MPS. Junk mail is reduced considerably.
You can do the telephone one when you're there, takes seconds.
HTH.
Not when they have no address on them. Or do the posties carry a big list and ignore people on it?Sign up to MPS. Junk mail is reduced considerably.
You can do the telephone one when you're there, takes seconds.
HTH.
illmonkey said:
Why is it I get told to drive 5 miles less every week to save the planet, yet these idiots are allowed to create millions of flyers for double glazing?
8 pieces of junk today, E I G H T. Non even addressed to anyone, just 'the occupier'. How much does it cost to recycle and reprint more flyers that no one reads, let alone the damage to the environment.
How's about you fk off and let me drive to work and back to pay Tax on my car, petrol, road tax and my earning. And you stop the fkwits from producing, what I can only imagine, is more CO2 that 5 extra fking miles.
0/10 - I'm sure.
8 pieces of junk today, E I G H T. Non even addressed to anyone, just 'the occupier'. How much does it cost to recycle and reprint more flyers that no one reads, let alone the damage to the environment.
How's about you f
k off and let me drive to work and back to pay Tax on my car, petrol, road tax and my earning. And you stop the fkwits from producing, what I can only imagine, is more CO2 that 5 extra fking miles.0/10 - I'm sure.
Wonder if it would be possible to design a junk-mail-burner powered car?DAVEVO9 said:
I save all my junk mail up then write "JUNK" on it in black marker pen.. can't be used again then..
Most satisfying shoving it all back in the post box as and when.
It may make you feel better but anything you send back goes straight in the bin anyway, the only people you are annoying is Royal Mail who have to take it all the way back again for no revenue.Most satisfying shoving it all back in the post box as and when.
you have the wrong idea completely.
add another letterbox to your door and mark them as [your house number]a and [your house number]b
get all propper mail sent to a and put a big bin under b
Then sign up to absolutely everything you can click all the "send my details to third party orgs" boxes.
Then get yourself a wood burning stove
add another letterbox to your door and mark them as [your house number]a and [your house number]b
get all propper mail sent to a and put a big bin under b
Then sign up to absolutely everything you can click all the "send my details to third party orgs" boxes.
Then get yourself a wood burning stove
The ones I objected to most were "pre-approved loans" from the banks, particularly when they had my details already filled in. I used to put everything back in the prepaid envelopes (including the original envelope and a couple of bits of old newspapers just to add to the weight and increase what they had to pay) with UNSOLICITED MAIL DO NOT CONTACT ME AGAIN written across every sheet of paper. If they wrote to me again, I'd do the same thing, with a copy the letter I sent to the Advertising Standards Agency and The Data Protection Officer to complain about the company sending me unsolicited mail (you can do it by email so it costs nothing).
Then I registered with the MPS. I hardly get any junk mail anymore and when I do, it gets stuck in a postage unpaid envelope back to the company asking them to remove my details from their database.
I also make sure I check/uncheck (as appopriate)any forms I fill in to say I don't want to be contacted for marketing.
Yes it was a faff to start with, but it was worth the effort.
http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/
http://www.asa.org.uk/Regulation-Explained/What-we...
http://www.ico.gov.uk/what_we_cover/privacy_and_el...
(Some of the organisations may have changed what they deal with now, but they should be able to tell you who you need to contact)
Then I registered with the MPS. I hardly get any junk mail anymore and when I do, it gets stuck in a postage unpaid envelope back to the company asking them to remove my details from their database.
I also make sure I check/uncheck (as appopriate)any forms I fill in to say I don't want to be contacted for marketing.
Yes it was a faff to start with, but it was worth the effort.
http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/
http://www.asa.org.uk/Regulation-Explained/What-we...
http://www.ico.gov.uk/what_we_cover/privacy_and_el...
(Some of the organisations may have changed what they deal with now, but they should be able to tell you who you need to contact)
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