Junk Mailshots

[Alan2]

EVERYBODY should do this, when you receive a letter for a credit card application, or a loan etc. or any junk letter with a pre-paid envelope to reply with, fill it full of ripped up paper or old take-away menus or anything you have to hand and send it back to them. I know its very sad, but it does'nt half make you feel good

[Ethel]

What a wasteful drain on the post office resources.

Register with the Mail Preference Service - within three months the amount of junk mail will have dropped significantly.

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

And opt out of Royal Mail Door to Door Mailing:

http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?ca tId=400126&mediaId=500081

If enough people do it, Royal Mail and advertisers may realise that we don't want their junk.

[Finance Guy]

Alan, your response to junk mail seems to suggest deeper, underlying, anger issues, with all due respect.

Register with the Mailing Preference Service, their web address is: www.mpsonline.org.uk. You will then see the letters all diminishing rapidly within three months. Any that DO still arrive, just inform MPS and they will investigate.

Any Direct mail company has a legal obligation to search their mailing data against the MPS database every three months, maximum. Failure to do so will result in a fine for the firm concerned, if they repeat offend.

Get your justice this way and take satisfaction from solving the issue long term and not needlessly using Post Office resources.

Kind regards and good luck!

[BenDToy]

I am a bit surprised at all the sudden sympathy for the PO!! Anyway, they get paid for delivering your return letters, and the company who sent the mail get charged. I personally think this is a great idea. I usually just send back what was in the unwanted envelope, including the envelope itself. I wish I had the time and energy to include something like brick as well, but it is too much hassle. Good on you Alan2.

[Postdog]

Just found this, so I realise I am well late, but....

Number one, I am a postman, and our work has grown phenonemally in terms of delivery over the years, so one more letter makes no difference.

However, my real reason for responding is when will everyone realise two things about junkmail. (a) it subsidises our salaries to the extent that without junk mail, you'd all be picking your mail up at the local supermarket or whatever. (b), there are other companies in the system, who, until they set up - IF they set up, which is unlikely - their own delivery system, use us to deliver their mail, and we have no legal control over it, other than a legal duty to deliver it. This means you can register with who you like and it won't make any difference, apart from the fact that the money which was Royal Mail's, is now someone elses. which means more job losses and that supermarket trip getting near and nearer.