To think royal mail junk unaddressed mail is out of control

[feellikeahugefailure]

8 separate magazines / leaflets today. All glossy so not as easy to recycle and cant use to light the fire. I at most get one or two letters a day and the amount of crap always outnumbers 5 times the actual addressed post

It makes it easy to miss actual post.

I'd rather pay a bit more per letter and not have so much junk.

If you put up a no junk mail do they take notice of it?

Lurkinghusband
I keep my recycling box in the porch and the postman drops my actual addressed letters into it! I have to check before I recycle.

Mine would do that too Mab.

Posties will ignore a 'no junk mail' sign (I am one and I ignore them as we are only told not to deliver to people who have opted out using the forms) even if you fill out a form there's a chance postie will forget or different people will get moved onto the round, then I guess you can complain but it all seems like a lot of effort when you could just throw the junk in the bin? That's what I do with the junk mail I receive.

I got told the postie has to deliver all mail including the junk stuff as they are paid to do it. I have a 'no junk mail' sticker on my letter box and it is helping - but not perfect. I have been known to pick the junk up (usually Chinese take away leaflets) open the door and demand the boy to come back and take it away!!!! I know.....simple pleasures

Anyone else get those bloody bags? I'm averaging 2 a day. Fuck knows how much random stuff they think I've got lying around.

They never put them through the letter box either. Just wedge them in.

I missed a bin day due to a chest infection and have some excess bin bags to get rid of. It's sooooo tempting to fill these bags up with my rubbish and leave them out to be collected.

I have the Royal Mail Opt Out thing posted above and it works fine for me.

I get the charity bags Joffrey although I understand lots of them are commercial enterprises rather than charities. I just use them as bin bags.

The only time I actually donated any clothes, the first charity bag sat on my doorstep full of clothes for several days past the collection date. When the next charity bag arrived I put the already bagged bag straight in it.

Rinse and repeat a couple of times and by the bloody thing was collected, I think the clothes were encased in four separate charity bags .

Royal Mail and the Post Office are now completely different companies. Royal Mail delivers your mail.

Please don't think that bundling stuff up and returning it to the Post Office makes any sense whatsoever. You might as well bundle it all up and take it to Tesco.