Reply to: Junk Mail: Stopping it

[Zippy]

I never get any junk mail. Am I worthless?

No.You are just a man in need of kindling.

[xoggoth]

Don't mind the postal sort in winter. Since we stopped buying newspapers in favour of just online viewing it comes in handy to light the weekend fires with.

[Clippy]

I keep it all at the side, I've got one of those little stamps which says Addressee unknown return to sender. Every month or so I get through them and then drop them in the postbox.

You'll never beat them, but might as well make them pay twice for it.

Same here.

I also add "Please update your records" and, over time it does seem to work - however, alternative junk mail soon takes its place.

The junk mail I hate is the type that is 'disguised' as normal mail. Seriously, you think this is going to make me read it??

[Cliphead]

I never get any junk mail. Am I worthless?

[OwlHoot]

The steps so far...

Removed us from the Published Electoral list.
Both on the mailing preference service
Told the Royal mail we are opting out of their junk mail service.
Placed a 'No Leaflets or other promotional items' sign on the door

If any crap does come through and it has an envelope I usually rip it up and post it all back.

Still get tons and tons of the crap.

Also can Companies house not put captcha on their site? Cannot be that hard to get at all the details with some screen scraper.

If you have any open fireplaces, you could convert it, along with your paper rubbish, to long-lasting hot-burning bricks with one of these

[Incognito]

I don't get too much through that route but they should make a wee bit of an effort to protect my information.

The thing that most pisses me off about junk mail is you can lose something important in the pile of crap.

If they collectively placed all the weeks junk mail through on a saturday in one big envelope I could just chuck it in the bin and I would not bother.

I keep it all at the side, I've got one of those little stamps which says Addressee unknown return to sender. Every month or so I get through them and then drop them in the postbox.

You'll never beat them, but might as well make them pay twice for it.

[Incognito]

Someone who's managed to find his way from the Atlas mountains or the Somali desert to Holland can probably read signs.

I doubt it, they're most probably still wandering about wondering where bloody Birmingham is.

[Mich the Tester]

If they collectively placed all the weeks junk mail through on a saturday in one big envelope I could just chuck it in the bin and I would not bother.

It would have to be a bloody big envelope.

[minestrone]

Why dont you put your accountant's address as the registered address for company. You dont have any mails coming to your house then

I don't get too much through that route but they should make a wee bit of an effort to protect my information.

The thing that most pisses me off about junk mail is you can lose something important in the pile of crap.

If they collectively placed all the weeks junk mail through on a saturday in one big envelope I could just chuck it in the bin and I would not bother.

[Zippy]

The steps so far...

Removed us from the Published Electoral list.
Both on the mailing preference service
Told the Royal mail we are opting out of their junk mail service.
Placed a 'No Leaflets or other promotional items' sign on the door

If any crap does come through and it has an envelope I usually rip it up and post it all back.

Still get tons and tons of the crap.

Place your recycling box underneath the letterbox.
Judging by the amount of crap that comes through my front door, the area has more pizza parlours and curry emporia than actual houses.

[Mich the Tester]

What, you mean *gasp* immigrants??

No, most of them can at least read an address and the words 'nee' and 'ja'. I mean the inborns that can barely tie their own shoelaces.

Someone who's managed to find his way from the Atlas mountains or the Somali desert to Holland can probably read signs.

[Dearnla]

They used to work until the post office sacked all the literate people and replaced them with part time sub-minimum wage numpties.

What, you mean *gasp* immigrants??

[wobbegong]

Why dont you put your accountant's address as the registered address for company. You dont have any mails coming to your house then

Simple, seal your letterbox and get a P.O. Box.

Job done.

[rd409]

The steps so far...
Also can Companies house not put captcha on their site? Cannot be that hard to get at all the details with some screen scraper.

Why dont you put your accountant's address as the registered address for company. You dont have any mails coming to your house then

[minestrone]

I must get a leaflet or 2 through the door every day from either a gardener, plumber, roofer etc etc. Do they not know this area just gets flooded and the chance of them getting a sale that way is just minimal.

Feck sake, just had to chase an npower salesman from the door.