Does anyone ever read the leaflets posted through the door?

[notnaice]

Mine just go straight into the recycling without even looking at them.

Aibu to think that companies might as well save their money?

well i used to advertise community projects with leafletting, sad to think people would just bin them, it's hard enough advertising events

I like looking at the takeaway ones. Some of our local ones do weird hybrids of Indian/italian/sfc/kebab stuff. So you'll get kebab meat pizza or balti chicken calzone. Yum.

I would read them if there wasn't so many of them. It's rarely just one leaflet, it's a stack of 4 or 5. Often delivered by the postman, and often when there's no other post for me. It's no wonder mail deliveries get later and later when they have to stop at every house to deliver a pile of paper that will just go straight to be recycled. I suppose in the past they would have been put in newspapers but most people don't get paper deliveries now.

I am more likely to read something local than something from a national company though.

I own a small business (professional business which requires a degree and registration to do) and every so often drop leaflets. Any letterbox that has no junk mail i dont deliver to. I always have loads of phone calls to book me after a leaflet drop. One phone call i remember was a guy who phoned up to inform me that leafletting was a very bad way of informing anyone about my business as most people throw it again. I listened and said he just phoned me. He agreed and said he was going to keep my card anyway as it might be useful. I do remember one lady who came into my clinic and after being treated informed me it was very hard to find someone like me. I looked at her address and informed her id delievered leaflets about a month ago to her street. She informed me she hadnt got one. She then said my letterbox does have no junk mail on. I said in that case i wouldnt have delievered. She told me i wasnt junk then looked puzzled and said in a way it would be but id have wanted your leaflet. She left the clinic saying she was going to remove the no junk sign. So to answer ops question it is worth it if you a small business. I always glance at the leaflets apart from the pizza ones as you never know.

I heard of people buying a stash of cheap envelopes and posting them back with no stamp...

downlaod same. I run a community centre and we've just done a 500 leaflet drop. We are a charity and its cost us £200 for those leaflets,that a volunteer will deliver, just for people to chuck them in the bin with a holier than thou attitude

We don't make any money so if people sent ours back in an envelope with no stamp it would very possibly finish us oes so that's a ridiculous and selfish act, people trying to be clever.

I never ever did, but when I worked for a new Credit Union that was just starting up, we designed and done our own leaflet drop around some housing estates. It was bloody hard work, so I always feel a bit mean not even looking. Unless its fast food menu's or the fake charities collecting for clothes, then they go straight in the bin