Anyone fed up of junk mail?! How to get it to stop

[Horehound]

Whyyyy is it allowed to litter people's letterboxes with fucking pamphlets of junk mail? Domino's pizza, Aldi, election stuff. I don't want any of it.
Is there a way to just say no to junk mail or will it just be posted through the letterbox anyway? I can't believe companies are allowed to just spam, spam, spam. If anything it makes me want to not use them.
I think it's really irritating me now there's been so many election things come through the door, often the same ones again and again.

Im just having moan but uft, it's annoying!

Our postman says that he’s sick of people giving him grief for posting that stuff through the door. Like he has a choice! Royal Mail are paid by the companies producing this stuff to deliver it. He doesn’t get to choose.

He also says that ‘no junk mail please’ stickers on your front door make no difference.

You can sign up with the Mail Preference Service, which will stop some, but not all, of the stuff personally addressed to you.

Yes it’s possible to massively reduce junk mail. We have a sign on our door that says “NO junk Mail, NO cold calling”. We haven’t had a knock in years but sometimes political leaflets do slip through the net as it’s not considered junk. I don’t have an issue with that though.

@Iamthewombat

Our postman says that he’s sick of people giving him grief for posting that stuff through the door. Like he has a choice! Royal Mail are paid by the companies producing this stuff to deliver it. He doesn’t get to choose.

He also says that ‘no junk mail please’ stickers on your front door make no difference.

You can sign up with the Mail Preference Service, which will stop some, but not all, of the stuff personally addressed to you.

Oh really? Well maybe he should be reporting back to royal mail that people don't generally enjoy being spammed and the shit ends up on the bin! I wouldn't moan to my postie about it though, I know it's not them sending it and they have to post the shite. Oh didn't know about that preference service though! Off to do that right now!

@Vallmo47

Yes it’s possible to massively reduce junk mail. We have a sign on our door that says “NO junk Mail, NO cold calling”. We haven’t had a knock in years but sometimes political leaflets do slip through the net as it’s not considered junk. I don’t have an issue with that though.

I wouldn't mind one leaflet per party but I've had tonnes of them!

There are ways but they rarely work because they rely on your postie remembering which houses have opted out. Also it needs renewing every X years and if you have adults with more than one last name in the house, you have to both opt out in order to stop it.

There's also the companies that you order one thing from and they take that as an invitation to send catalogues ridiculously often. Lands End, Woolovers and Kettlewell, I'm looking at you.

Ridiculous that so much waste is allowed when we're supposed to be reducing unnecessary stuff to protect the environment.

SAGA - I'm particularly looking at you. I turned 55 and asked for info online on car insurance. Since then brochures on cruises, health insurance etc. I've been able to opt out of the online stuff, but not the brochures.

Oh really? Well maybe he should be reporting back to royal mail that people don't generally enjoy being spammed and the shit ends up on the bin!

Yes, he should really do that. Him, and all the other postal workers on below average wage. Royal Mail, currently struggling financially, would 100% decide to drop lucrative contracts on the say so if its lowest-paid workers.

Plus, it can’t all end up in the bin. People must order stuff prompted by junk mail or the companies doing the spamming wouldn’t bother. I’d like to know who gave my details to Baukjen, Poetry, Aspiga, Kettlewell etc etc because I’ve never ordered from any of them, but I just chuck the catalogues in the recycling. I can’t get worked up about it.

We get reams of the stuff from Royal Mail and various companies who I’ve ordered from and opted out but still send stuff regularly (you Boden!)

It goes straight in the recycling, probably a lot of peoples goes straight in the bin. It’s ridiculous that it’s allowed when we are supposedly trying to reduce waste.

Everything is just lip service because money talks and I presume Royal Mail gets paid well by these companies?

@Iamthewombat

Oh really? Well maybe he should be reporting back to royal mail that people don't generally enjoy being spammed and the shit ends up on the bin!

Yes, he should really do that. Him, and all the other postal workers on below average wage. Royal Mail, currently struggling financially, would 100% decide to drop lucrative contracts on the say so if its lowest-paid workers.

Plus, it can’t all end up in the bin. People must order stuff prompted by junk mail or the companies doing the spamming wouldn’t bother. I’d like to know who gave my details to Baukjen, Poetry, Aspiga, Kettlewell etc etc because I’ve never ordered from any of them, but I just chuck the catalogues in the recycling. I can’t get worked up about it.

Ok if you're not worked up about it I don't know why you took an interest in the thread lol. You seem very sensitive about posties. I'm not slating them at all. I'm annoyed at junk mail

@BarbaraofSeville

There are ways but they rarely work because they rely on your postie remembering which houses have opted out. Also it needs renewing every X years and if you have adults with more than one last name in the house, you have to both opt out in order to stop it.

There's also the companies that you order one thing from and they take that as an invitation to send catalogues ridiculously often. Lands End, Woolovers and Kettlewell, I'm looking at you.

Ridiculous that so much waste is allowed when we're supposed to be reducing unnecessary stuff to protect the environment.

Yes exactly. I bought something from house of Bruar and they seem to have lots of different extensions of their business all with different catalogues that they've decided I just want. I even checked my online account where I'd opted out of the catalogues and still got them. I closed my account in the end.

You're right about people must be buying stuff @Iamthewombat. Both my grans buy shite from catalogues and they call the company up to order the stuff rather than use the form included or online even though both can use PCs. I recently reviewed my grandparents utilities and both had extortionate phone bills calling these bloody catalogue companies. So it's not just junk it's high call rates too. It's never ending!

I was used to get lots when i lived ar my previous address. I put “return to sender” and “person died” on them.

They soon stopped!

We put up a no junk mail sticker and it massively reduced the amount we got.

It's ridiculous here - the leafletters ignore the no junk mail sign, RM deliver a ton of junk mail daily and no actual post. I pick it up from the hall and deposit straight in recycling.

That and the bloody plastic bags for charity donations...

For all the unaddressed leaflets and general junk, you can complete an opt out form which obliges Royal Mail to stop delivering these through your letterbox.

www.royalmail.com/sites/default/files/D2D-Opt-Out-Application-Form-2015.pdf

Royal Mail takes payment from companies for delivering to each household, so your postie is obliged to deliver them, unless you've formally opted out.

For addressed junk, either contact the companies directly, or leave it unopened and write on the envelope "unsolicited mail - return to sender" and stick it in a postbox. Hopefully, those companies would take the hint and stop sending it.