So I've just been junkmailed a sample nappy from pampers...

[beowulf]

...in an envelope marked "what else could feel as snug and secure as mum's tummy". This is despite refusing the bounty packs and ticking all the no-junkmail boxes on the child trust fund forms, so I'm a bit cross that somehow the direct marketing folk have my details .

DS1 has been in cloth since 4 days old, and DS2 hasn't touched a dispo nappy, and I'd like to keep it that way. It really annoys me that I've been sent some completely non-recyclable junkmail - the normal stuff just goes in the recycling box or my DS1 uses it for artwork. So, given that the nappy that pampers has sent me is going to end up in landfill anyway, what's the best thing to do with it?

a) send it back to pampers with a complaint letter which they'll ignore.
b) complain about it to my local councillor - as landfill charges affect council tax
c) complain to my MP
d) find a dispo user who'd use the nappy and calm down and forget about it

find someone who would gladly take it off your hands...........im sure lots of people would make use of it!

d

d)

d

keep it in your car for absolute emergencies like when you get half way to a theme park and realise you've left the change bag at home and yor in-car nappy change kit was depleted the previous day..........

alternatively

d

What Cargirl said

Or D

Or mark Return to Sender on the envelope, sit down with your feet up, and have a large glass of (fairly traded, natch) wine

Call Pampers and ask how they got your details
Keep asking for someone higher up until they can tell you

I'd save this for a day when you have really bad PMT

Agree with Pruni, make sure they tell you how they got your details.

I'm thinking c might be good, if you hate your MP.

Yes - I like Pruni's suggestion. I know, really, that there's no point in getting all ballistic about it, but getting P**pers to tell me how they got my address sounds quite cathartic.

e) save it for when you spill red wine on the carpet- those super absorbent granules have their uses!

take comfort in the fact that they've wasted money sending you a sample that won't convert you

D.