Leaflets through the door

[the flu]

I´ve had signs on my door for about 15-20 years now,and it have more or less always worked.Ok,now and then,some braindead idiot put some ads for a new funky pizzatakeawayplace,but very rarely.
In fact,if a well known mail delivey company do this,you can just get in contact with them,and the person who ignored the sign will have hell to pay.

Of course,now,the only one that tries to sneak in free papers are the old postman,since more and more of their stuff is vanishing into the networld,which I think is great.
Less waste must be at least a little better.

I can understand that small/independent places must do this to survive,but I think they also must respect our choices.

[vo1v0d]

love em. folded in four placed at bottom of food caddy and used teabag jar, the china clay in the glossy ones help soak up the orrible juice and knock down the smell till they go in th bin

[bloke57]

Got a lovely glossy leaflet yesterday offering to come and value my house...from the estate agency I work for!

Hoist by my own petard

[vo1v0d]

Originally Posted by bloke57

Got a lovely glossy leaflet yesterday offering to come and value my house...from the estate agency I work for!

Hoist by my own petard

tee hee.
I used to phone them for an appointment and let them go through their spiel before I told them it was my girlfriends gaff and it was quadrant housing owned

[Oswald]

Originally Posted by thunderfly

In the UK, postal workers have no choice but to deliver junk leaflets along with the 'ordinary' mail. The advertising companies give Royal Mail the contract and the poor postman cannot refuse to deliver them any more than he could refuse to deliver letters and packages.

I worked as a postie 30 years ago and we had to do this way back then. I remember that some weeks we had to deliver 4 or 5 different pieces of junk mail to every address on your round/route. 300 addresses x 5!! Yikes! I do recall sometimes literally being weighed down by the sheer numbers of them.

I still get them delivered today. In fact I had one through my door this very morning for solar panels.

[thunderfly]

Originally Posted by Oswald

I worked as a postie 30 years ago and we had to do this way back then. I remember that some weeks we had to deliver 4 or 5 different pieces of junk mail to every address on your round/route. 300 addresses x 5!! Yikes! I do recall sometimes literally being weighed down by the sheer numbers of them.

I still get them delivered today. In fact I had one through my door this very morning for solar panels.

Yeah, they used to be called 'Household Deliveries' then the name changed to 'door to doors'. All rubbish that you knew would just be thrown away 99.9% of the time.

[Sirch]

Yes, the religious folks litter my front door on a regular basis. I should be able to sue them for trashing my property.

[pharoahegypt]

Originally Posted by Sirch

Yes, the religious folks litter my front door on a regular basis. I should be able to sue them for trashing my property.

Well; they do say that God works in mysterious ways....?
(prefer the U2 song myself, much more believable)

[Sirch]

Originally Posted by pharoahegypt

Well; they do say that God works in mysterious ways....?
(prefer the U2 song myself, much more believable)

I should print up some devil worship leaflets and put them on the front doors of churches in my area. I would probably get arrested for terrorism.

[gordian_knot]

You can sign up to the Mail Preference Service and Royal Mail also operates a junk mail opt-out. It won't stop it all, but will stop a lot of it. More effective for local businesses is a 'Beware of the dog" sign on the front gate, backed up by a ferocious looking alsatian. Worked for me for years.