Advertisements Through My Letter Box

[Coldicote]

I'm getting loads of advertising mail through my letter box, perhaps because I do shopping on line. They're all trying to persuade me to buy more items whether I need them or not. Is anyone really taken in by these special offers, chances to win a prize draw, price reductions, three for two, etc? Seems to me to be one big fiddle disguising the fact that prices were too high in the first place. I'm not impressed and simply chuck them away. What do others feel about it?

[boxtops]

I chuck most of them away, but I take out and shred the address page first. Nobody's getting my details from advertising material.

[Psybbo]

Agreed, I order what I want when I want, but the subsequent offers really annoy me, especially those which say you're through to the final draw for a large amount of money, which I'm sure never happens.

[boxtops]

It has to happen otherwise it's illegal, but the wording usually says "you could be" which means you have to send the guff back in order to be entered :-(

[BlueToffee]

Write on the envelope 'Return to sender, not known at this address', or, open the envelope, take out the sae and post it back to the sender with someone else's junk mail inside. That way they'll have to at least pay the postage again!

[Tilly2]

The postman must hate them. That's all he seems to deliver to our house.

[Buenchico]

A relevant link for some people here, perhaps?
http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/

[carrust]

If the flyers didn't work then the companies wouldn't pay quite a bit of money to advertise with them.
Posties get paid for delivering them as well.

[Postdog]

As an ex postman they are more aggro than you can imagine and don't pay that much.