To have just fucking screamed at the man who put a leaflet through my door.

[Piggyleroux]

despite having a sign up saying "no junk mail/leaflets"

We must get at least five a day.

Ds has been poorly and none of us had any sleep last night. I got him off about an hour ago and this stupid fuckwit pushed pizza leaflets through my door waking ds up because the dog started barking.

I fucking flew at him. The language was not pretty. He pretty much legged it up the road.

Can they not read?

YAB very U

According to the National Literacy Trust around 5.2 million adults in the UK are functionally illiterate. I suspect that figure doesn't include foreign nationals who do not speak/read English.

I've done this before...

YANBU to be annoyed. But YABVU to scream and swear at the leaflet man. He did not wake your son your dog did.

He may have not been able to read your sign/ he may not have given a shiney shit about your sign - either way, you are responsible for your behaviour not the leaflet guy/your dog or your child. You behaved badly, you were knackered, learn from it and let it go.

How very rude of you. YABU.

To put myself in the mindset of a teenager - if I was delivering leaflets and saw stickers saying 'no junk mail' i would definitely put one through their letterbox

Yeah thats a bit much tbh. screaming and going for someone JUST cos they put a leaflet through your door!

it was the dog barking that would have woke your Littleone up not the person putting a leaflet through the door.

The leaflet man didn't wake your son, your dog did.

Woudl you have screamed at a neighbour who was knocking because he needed help? your dog would have barked then.

Also whoever said 'dog's bark to warn you' - what utter tosh - a well trained dog will not bark every time the letter box goes.

Thanks Zzen and Pip, I didn't realise the figures were that high. I come from a third world country and the literacy rate I think is actually higher than that! 5.2 million, out of a country of 12 million .

I mean 60 million .

Your dog woke your son up. Do you fly at the postman too? Get an outdoor postbox and learn to control your temper.

actually i sympathise with you. i think if it says no junk mail they shouldn't deliver. obv no need for losing your rag though, but we are all human.

think that some of the people being unkind here obv live in houses with long drives and don't get much junk mail! we get loads.

just do what most people do with junk mail BIN IT lol
no need to loose the rag over some leaflets :/

It's all irrelevant, really. How about focusing on a solution that will stop him (and all his friends who call him Julie...in a foreign language)?

Buy something like this: s7g1.scene7.com/is/image/BandQ/5017259311967_001c_v001_zp and install it on your door. (Make sure it's thick enough and low enough so that trying to get a pamphlet under it is a right pain in the rear, if not impossible.)

Next, get yourself a pizza pamphlet (something tells me you'll have one) and go buy yourself a pretty little basket - something you like - something that's magically just the size of a pizza pamphlet.

Put a pizza pamphlet in the basket and hang it on your door, about waist-high. Put a little sign on the basket that says, "Thank You".

Have one of these...

The poor sod has probably been told by his boss to ignore any signs about no junk mail - so YAB a bit U because he is just trying to make a few quid by doing an incredibly shitty leafleting job.

However - I do appreciate how pissed off you get with it - we get a ton of stuff every day and because the front door opens straight into the living room it it very intrusive. When we got home after a fortnight away we couldn't open the front door due to the sheer volume of shite on the doormat.

YAB totally, totally U.

You could have politely explained.

I was out delivering leaflets for our school jumble sale last weekend, I had my DTs aged six helping me and they loved it. They can read and didn't put anything in doors that said "no junk mail". However we had to stop after one of the letterboxes had a man standing right behind it who roared at my six year old causing him to cry uncontrollably for about an hour....not sure what his logic was, a polite "no thanks" would have done! Last time I will ever do leaflet drops!

Sorry, but YANBU.

It irks me hugely that in recent years, despite the rise in green issues and despite the fact that people do put signs up saying "Don't do it", companies, individuals and religious...organisations feel that they have the right to intrude like this.

I know this seems precious, but spam/junk mail/cold calls etc really really freak me out, almost to OCD phobia levels. I hate it. I more than hate it, it actually makes me feel almost killy...
I'm signed to the TPS, MPS, always tick the "spam me and you die" box, etc, and still it happens. I'm going to put a shredder next to the front door with a sign saying "please put leaflets in here"!

Maybe because our old place was such a nightmare, with no privacy, a lunatic neighbour and suchlike, maybe because I am prone to depression and anxiety, but the whole 'unsolicited communications' thing makes me incredibly stressed out and angry, and yes, I know it's irrational, but my home is my refuge. I find it difficult to go out and don't like it when fuckers intrude, simple as that.

So...putting my head above the parapet here...but I'm sorry, leafleteers/cold callers/ doorsteppers etc are all fair game AFAIC. They see me as prey, after all.
Mad, yes, but I do NOT like feeling invaded or harassed. This is my bête noire.

And I shall name and shame Dominos Pizza

Every fucking day. WILL NO-ONE THINK OF THE TREEEES!

Martin Lewis gave a tip once to beat spam mailers at their own game. (This doesn't work with pizza leaflets and stuff, only those that come through the mail for new credit cards and stuff like that). Tear the junk mail, put it into the reply paid envelope and post it back to them. That way you not only send them back their rubbish but charge them for it too. :)

Hmmmm shall start doing that...providing I don't end up giving myself an anger-induced aneurysm first!