Junk Mail

[lankeela]

Having just filled my recycle wheelie bin with the latest load of glossy, expensive rainforest is there any way of stopping all this junk mail coming through my letter box?

[B00]

Hi Lankeela, hows you today?
There is a way of cutting it down ypu'll be pleased to know!!

Try here.....

http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/

[Postdog]

http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/

Not having used it, I can't say how effective it is. As a postman, I can say that you will never stop all junk mail.

As a junk mail getter, I tend to reply if they supply a post paid envelope. I don't put anything in it, it just makes me feel that bit better knowing they have paid that postage for nothing.

[lankeela]

Excellent response folks, have now registered.

greenie, love your idea - if the service doesn't work I'll try it.

[TheMan]

Follow up to greenie.

Reading of peoples way of dealing with junk mail - one guy used to put all his used sweet wrappers in the pre-paid and write on the envelope, "had yours - heres mine".

As Postdog will confirm a lot of this mail is not addressed to an individual and sometimes not even an address, but the posties are obliged to put them through the letterbox!

[Grunty]

Paper is not made from rainforests. There is no shortage of the trees from which it is made.
Junk mail also annoys me, but there was a case locally where a postman saved an elderly woman's life. He may have only gone to the house to deliver junk mail.

[naz_nomad]

Yes Grunty ... but that woman had slipped on a pile of junk mail ... (probably?)

[nickmo]

MPS has stopped the junk mail for me - except for the ones the postie is obliged to deliver direct as this seems to be the trend to avoid the MPS

Also use the TPS to stop junk tel calls. If you haven't signed up - http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps

[earthakitten]

I had a stamp made
Unrequested Mail Please return to sender
Hasn't stopped it yet but it gives me satisfaction that will have to pay something to get it back, I hope. xx

[lankeela]

Would they take any notice if I put a sign on the door saying no junk mail? I also get loads of free papers and leaflets from local stores, as well as catalogues. The problem is, my dogs bark like crazy whenever anyone comes near the front door. Perhaps the sign should say junk mail will be eaten by dogs? Or even junk mail deliverers will be eaten by dogs!

I also have the Telephone Preference Service and this has stopped those annoying calls when there is no-one there because they have dialled hundreds of numbers at once.

[FoxLee]

For a bit more fun, I used to return the junk mail in envelope provided but not to the firm it came from so they would get each other's junk mail.

[Postdog]

Lankeela, putting a sign up saying no junk mail MAY deter someone else, but as a postman if it is addressed to you (or in the case of what we call door to doors (unstamped stuff) has been paid for to be delivered, we have to deliver it.

Come to that, the same could perhaps be said for non RM deliveries - they are being paid by others to deliver, not by you for not delivering.

[shaneystar2]

Your dogs must know my dog lankeela !!

[angeldraws]

@ postdog - that is such an evil thing to do, sending an empty envelope back........

That's exactly why i do it.....!!

It's a good trick for charity envelopes too, when they think you have put a note in and it's just a piece of paper saying 'please don't post your envelopes'here in future' (actually it says nothing of the sort but i think they get the gist!!)

[greenie87]

well the amount of junk mail thru my door has certainly declined! all i get is takeaway menus etc posted thru.

[lankeela]

takeaway menus? Thats not what I call junk mail, thats essential reading!

[greenie87]

not with the crap i get round here! i dnt need menus! i always know wat i want.... i will send u my menus if u want for a read lankeela?

[SHALOM]

Thanks Boo, Postdog & Mickmo for the web sited for mps & tps. I have just registered after having 3 weeks of phone calls from a loans company asking about our mortgage & they could help us to save money, despite leaving the receiver off the phone, in the end I put my son on who had the same initials as my husband, he let them rabbit on & then said I don't have a mortgage, no more calls.

[lankeela]

sadly greenie, neither do I - I walk in and the girl says 'the usual?' - how predictable am I?

[greenie87]

very predictable by the sounds of it?! when i next get my next junk mail with a pre paid envelope i will change the address and send u my junk mail!