To be absolutely steaming about having a free copy of the Sun delivered by Royal Mail?

[Sixweekstowait]

I know I am not BU. I am going to post it back to Sun HQ in an unstamped envelope ( will probably tear it into pieces before I do). Who will join me?

manicinsomiac

More recently, the enquiry heard that phone hacking started at the Sun and bribing police officers.

Yanbu. I don't want that misogynist rag through my door. I'll post it back to them.

"Manic, the Sun had the most graphic pictures of the victims, out of all the newspapers.... It was completely unnecessary to show them imo."

That is incorrect, the Daily Mirror led with a double page full-colour front-page photograph of girls being crushed to death with the headline 'I saw my daughters crushed to death', with their faces and the fact of their death due to suffocation against the fence as plain as could be.

Of course others behaved disgracefully - police, ambulance service, the coroner, Thatcher, other newspapers but it's the Sun that's being put through my letter box on Thursday. And as for the police being the source of the story.... So that's the job of a newspaper is it to print what the police tell them? But then Sun journalists couldn't even spell investigative reporting never mind do it!

Anya do you think that's it?

Excellent idea to have let them advertise a free copy in the shop rather than through everyone in England's door - except Liverpool and Warrington.

If you want to bin, recycle, animal litter, or even read it, then that's absolutely your right to do so. Just stop with the 'it doesn't matter', 'whatever', 'get over it' sentiments eh? There is no need to belittle people for feeling strongly about a subject just because you don't feel that way.

As several posters have said, it was not just people from Liverpool that died that day (and yes the Sun was in no way responsible for the deaths) but that paper was absolutely responsible for accusing bereaved families and friend at the stadium of utterly disgusting behaviours in the aftermath and publishing pictures of the bodies.

Alan Hanson is quoted as still having people say to him, 'it was the fans fault' after all these years. Unbelievable. Thank goodness for the Skelmersdale post workers for having the strength of character to protest so strongly that they'd give up pay to make their point.

And you know.....sometimes saying sorry just doesn't cut it, does it?

I imagine other papers probably did publish similar stories. But surely the fact that so many people only boycott The Sun over it must say something.

So are they sending a free copy to every house in the UK? They must have more money than sense.

Mine will be posted back to their office. Can't abide that newspaper or the company which owns it.

Sorry haven't rtft in full but I intend to put up a "no free newspapers" sign on the front door on 11 June. If enough people did that would the Sun get the message? Will save the cost of an envelope to send it back.

And lets not forget, as well as the horrific Hillsborough incident there is Millie Dowler's phone taping, printing Kate MCCanns stolen diaries etc etc etc. they are scum.

I had forgotten about the Millie Dowler phone tapping. I can't imagine how her parents must have felt. They had false hope that she was alive because of that awful paper deleting her messages.

Not in Liverpool, but we live on what was he main road to and from Sheffield before the m67 was built. We remember seeing the fans on the way home from Hillsborough. If that piece of shit rag comes through my letter box it'll be going straight back.

Jft96 Y WA.

A few comments columns on various websites equally irritated by this. Apparently the return address is:

1 Virginia Street
London
E1 9XR

Yes, I had forgotten about the phone tapping too tbh

Thanks to whoever posted the petition link earlier - have signed.

www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/the-royal-mail-refuse-to-deliver-free-copies-the-s-n-newspaper-to-every-home-in-the-uk/

The banner looks like a good poster to print out too, can't tell on my phone.

I told my teens about this and they don't want it either. DS1 and I've signed the petition.

DS1(19) said "No thanks! Why would you want that shit in your house?"

I'm going to boot up the laptop to make a poster to put in the window to ask the post woman not to leave it.

I don't want that shit through my door, a weak apology 15 years later does not cut it, whilst the Hillsborough inquiry is ongoing, page three, right wing and owned by Murdoch, and a nasty comic not a newspaper. I shall put it straight back in the Post Box.

If people want to 'read' it that's their choice, but I have the choice not to want anything to do with that scum rag as well.

I totally understand why the people in Liverpool will not forget or forgive and good on them, they are standing up for what they believe in, and I applaud them for that.

RIP 96.

From petition.

For info, RM also have a webpage you can complain via here

I've submitted a complain.

SauceForTheGander

Anya do you think that's it?

Well, it wouldnt surpise me tbh

I really don't think ripping them to pieces and posting them back to be dealt with by some poor bloke in the mail office on minimum wage is going to make one tiny iota of difference. Except perhaps to make his day a little bit more crap.

The ire might be more effective if it were targeted at those actually responsible for it and its content.

If I get one I'll just chuck it in the recycling like I do with all the other pizza place flyers and leaflets advertising gutter clearance. No need for drama

I don't think passive-aggressive posters to the overworked postman are really the best plan. By all means complain to Royal Mail yourself, but leave the postal workers alone.

The Official Hillsborough Justice Campaign have some posters on their Facebook page you can print out and stick on your door. I'm going to send mine back myself because I don't know whether Royal Mail would just bin all the ones they can't deliver though I hope not. I hope enough people either refuse them or send them back to cause Royal Mail so much hassle that they'll think twice about doing anything like this again!

JFT96 YNWA

No different to a 'Dear Postman no junk mail please' sign. Or are they the ever favoured catchphrase "passive aggressive" now too?