My Post Has Just Arrived

[missprim]

As usual it contains about half a dozen catalogues. I know this has probably been asked before, but how to you put a stop to them?
I've tried writing to the companies concerned but that doesn't work.
I write to charity companies who bombard me with raffle tickets to sell,(please don't send any more) but still they keep arriving.
Please help.

[ChillDoubt]

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

[aelmpvw]

99% of my post goes straight from the front door to the green bin which amuses my perverse sense of humour

[missprim]

Thanks for that, will register and see how it goes.

[maggiebee]

Thanks ChillDoubt, have just registered. Let my house out for a year back in 2002 and still receiving letters (mainly debt) for tenant.

[ChillDoubt]

You're most welcome.

[ummmm]

We still get loads of debt letters for people who used to live here.

[bookbinder]

You could try writing on the envelope: Not known at this address. Please return to sender. Then put it back in the post box.
If necessary, put a sticky label over your address and write on that. This sometimes works, sometimes not.

[janbee]

I don't open it, and write "unsolicited mail, return to sender" on it and pop it back in the post box. After a while the companies get p****d off paying for all the extra postage, they eventually stop.

[Baldric]

Charities/raffle tickets, I put them in a plain envelope (not the postage paid ones they send) and send them back with no stamp, stops 'em every time!

[mikey4444]

Another way to stop this nonsense is to hit them where its hurts...in the pocket.

The reason that we are plagued with direct mail is that its artificially cheap to send the stuff out in the first place. If they had to pay the same prices as we have to when we go to the Post Office, it would soon cease. But if we respond by POST, than they have to pay, not us.

So, carefully take out the contents of envelope number one, remove anything with your identity on it, and put it all in the return envelope of number two. Repeat !

ie....send the Readers Digest stuff back to the AA, the AA's stuff to NEXT, NEXT's stuff to Cotton Traders, etc, etc.

Its fun and will soon start costing companies money. In the mean time it provides work for lots of Royal Mail.

[Sparkles62]

Never bothers me,I use the plastic bags from the brochures and catalogues as poop bags for the dogs, I put stickers on the envelopes inside the brochures, and use them for my competitions, and the brocures go into the recycling. X

[theshedman]

I put not wanted at this address, cross through my name and put them back in the post the next time I am passing a postbox. Was told a while ago that they have to pay 10p I think it is for each one they have returned to them. It saves filling up my bins and having to shred all my details.

[missprim]

Sparkles how many a day do you get? I have a big stack here since Christmas that I have to go through so I can shred my details.It really gets on my nerves sometimes when I hear all these catalogues landing on the mat.

[dzug2]

--Charities/raffle tickets, I put them in a plain envelope (not the postage paid ones they send) and send them back with no stamp, stops 'em every time! --

Never works for me - they still send them the next year

[TWR]

send them back with no stamp, stops 'em every time! --

That's the way to do it.

[DTCwordfan]

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