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Newspaper inserts

  • 14-06-2006 7:20am
    #1
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,415 ✭✭✭


    I dont know if I'm the only person that gets annoyed by newspaper inserts, but I'd like to hear what you all think.

    I usually buy one or two newspapers a day. The whole family reads them, so its reasonable value, and of course, they are recycled when finished with.
    I've noticed over the past number of weeks thought that for some reason, every single day, SKY TV have inserts in every paper I pick up offering cheap TV deals. Surely to heaven, this isnt nessecary? I didnt want Sky yesterday, I dont want it today, and in the unlikely event of my wanting it tomorrow, I'll be able to find your phone number or website myself, thank you. I know its quite simple to just recycle these as well with the paper, but it just seems like such a needless waste. Dell seem to do this a lot as well, i sometimes feel like I'm being brainwashed

    Does anyone agree or am I just being anal?


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  • #2
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    It's a fair comment, but they work on the idea that if .01% sign up is worth doing it. As a side point, resist postal codes if it ever comes up for discussion, when I lived in the UK we got x10 more junk mail then I get here because they can target areas

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  • #3
    Foxwood
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    silverharp wrote:
    As a side point, resist postal codes if it ever comes up for discussion, when I lived in the UK we got x10 more junk mail then I get here because they can target areas
    "Junk mail" helps subsidise the postal service (unlike spam). So there is an upside to the junk mail.


  • #4
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,415 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Foxwood wrote:
    "Junk mail" helps subsidise the postal service (unlike spam). So there is an upside to the junk mail.

    Plus you get ten cents off if you buy two tubes of mister blister. :D
    Silverharp, how does the postal codes affect thee junk mail do you know?


  • #5
    ODS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 380 ✭✭ODS


    I agree fully with the OP; and often I leave the excess crap/ packaging with staff at the till...Course they probably think Im mad, but do you think I give a ****?


  • #6
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Archeron wrote:
    Plus you get ten cents off if you buy two tubes of mister blister. :D
    Silverharp, how does the postal codes affect thee junk mail do you know?


    With the UK postcodes you can target individual streets, and direct marketing companies can make use fo this, whereas Dublin2 for example doesn't really tell you alot

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  • #7
    damiand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭damiand


    I would like to agree with silverharp, only a small percentage of people purchasing the newspaper have to purchase, i.e. Sky TV and its becomes a very cheap way of advertising. Have you ever noticed how expensive these 'Special Offers' really are. One of the national newspapers recently offered through a booklet, promotional products at reduced rates for their readers. They were reduced so they were only about twice as expensive as one could purchase the items from the high street.

    Wait till post codes come, it will be much worse.........


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