Conservative party literature addressed only to husband

There are 7 flats at my address. The Lib Dem candidate sent something to all of the women a few weeks ago and all of the men got a different one the other day.

I can't remember which party it was but a month or so back one of the candidates sent one focusing on schools to all the young couples and different ones to everyone else a few days later.

Twirly, your paper-saving comment made me laugh. That's very funny.

We've just had another batch drop through the door - all of us have our own personal copy, again weeps....

I get regular correspondence from Ruth Davidson.

I have no idea why she's picking on me as I'm never voting Tory. I did once buy something from Boden in the sale (it was for the kids..)

Rather than repeat it here, can I just point anyone interested in the strategy behind the use of the free post in elections to my post on this thread.

I should probably add that anything other than the freepost delivery is either hand delivered by volunteers, or posted if the candidates have allowed for postage in their election expenses. Things with stamps are likely to be really targeted because postage is a bit of a waste of expenses and the legal maximum per candidate is lower than you might think.

I think they buy mailing lists, or else send only to people who haven't told them to get stuffed. We got a Tory leaflet addressed to next door, Her Name, His Name, Child 2, Child 4. Grown-up children 1,3 and 5 were left out.
Asked Mr Neighbour who told me to chuck it in the bin!

It is random I have received literature from all of the parties and dh hasn't received any.

We've had one each from the Conservatives, and one from Labour that was just addressed to me, plus lots of unaddressed stuff from all parties.

Dh gets everything addressed only to him because he is registered as a postal voter.

We had this in the last election but from labour. I was foaming. Not only am I the one who pretty much forces dh to vote but at the time he was not dp and had only just moved in to the house that I had owned for years. But he got a letter not me.
This time labour have written to me and not him. Go figure.

Im also annoyed that every party has written to us except the lib dems, who I usually vote for. I think we are the 2nd safest labour seat in the country but it would be nice to not feel written off

I'm on the electoral role, as is DP, and neither of us have got any bumpf from anyone! I feel a bit dejected, to be honest!

All our Conservative election addresses have been addressed to me. None to my husband. None of the other parties have sent personally addressed messages to either of us.

One to each household means that the first person to open it decides if the rest of the household gets to read it (or not).

We have had two lots of identical Tory bumpf addressed to my DH and my DS1 who is voting for the first time. I was more than a little bit miffed to have been missed, the underlying message I have received there is that the woman's vote/influence/opinion isn't important to Mr Cameron. Far better to have addressed one to each household surely?

I think they want to maximise how many people read the post. First mailings go to the first person on the electoral register, a second mailing goes to the second person on the electoral register etc. Also targeted mailings go to different people, depending on what you've told them at the door previously etc.

It's nothing patriarchal or sinister.

Count your blessings, I keep getting UKIP stuff sent to me and I have the Farage staring at me with no warning.

All the leaflets (including the Tories) that have come through in my area are addressed to either me or my husband, none have been to both of us. My husband's all came through last week, this week is my turn and they are all addressed to me. I assumed it was so they essentially get to mail shot the house twice, doubling their visibility to the household, and also because we are two separate voters who may vote for different parties.

We had the opposite. The Tory leaflet was addressed only me. DH got one addressed only to him from the Lib Dem candidate.

They both went in the bin anyway.

We've had nothing from the Labour Party even though we are both life long Labour voters. They don't bother canvassing around here unfortunately.

Oh glen.

Labour did this to us! Conservatives sent one each. And door knocked! He was a nice bloke

If it is unsolicited, how else is the OP supposed to interpret it? There are only two options here:

i) Another leaflet will arrive with the OP's name on it, in which case the Conservatives are guilty of wasting money.

ii) They are only sending one piece of advertising and they are still living in the nineteenth century.

I'm going for the second one.

We've had tons of stuff through from all parties which come though in duplicate for my wife and I. In our area they get your info from the electoral register which we are both on.

Too late now but I hope you have registered to vote? You have to register individually now.

I sometimes get mail addressed to Mr. Queensansastark which I think is quite funny.

There was another thread about this yesterday.

I honestly don't think it's deliberate. We've had leaflets addressed to both of us and each of us. TBH, I'm more irritated at the use of the electoral register to send junk mail when we've opted out.

I doubt it's been generated by a 'man of the house' algorithm. Some targeted mailing policy will have been involved, but more likely based on polling, old canvas returns, marketing info or indeed simple maleness. I wouldn't hold it against them, really.