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Junk mail

  • 27-11-2008 12:52pm
    #1
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,220 ✭✭✭✭


    I get this crap posted in the letterbox every day, from take aways to hardware stores. How do I make it stop? It's a foooking joke and I am actually starting to get pissed off about it. It's not one letter, but a 2 leaflets a week from the same company? That is not right, such a waste... and it fills up my bins too. Should I charge these companies for my waste fees?


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  • #2
    Miguel_Sanchez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    Hayley Raspy Program wrote: »
    I get this crap posted in the letterbox every day, from take aways to hardware stores. How do I make it stop? It's a foooking joke and I am actually starting to get pissed off about it. It's not one letter, but a 2 leaflets a week from the same company? That is not right, such a waste... and it fills up my bins too. Should I charge these companies for my waste fees?

    Put a sign up saying 'no flyers or junk mail please'.

    If that doesn't work try posting them all back to the companies they're advertising or using them to insulate your house.


  • #3
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    ****.

    Kildare times, Supermarket crap, take away menus and those ****ing clothing collection leaflets that are delivered at 5am by some dick who decided to go through my recycle bin and then runs away when I go to the front door.


  • #4
    Dinter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭Dinter


    Wrap the leaflet round a brick put it all in a big envelope and send it back to them without attaching stamps.


  • #5
    Kablam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭Kablam


    I'll let ye all in on a little secret but don't go telling everyone.







    Put them in the wheelybin on the way out the door, shhhh;)


  • #6
    mcauley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 550 ✭✭✭mcauley


    Burn the house down ;)


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  • #7
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,220 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Kablam wrote: »
    I'll let ye all in on a little secret but don't go telling everyone.







    Put them in the wheelybin on the way out the door, shhhh;)

    Hence my reason for posting. It fills up my bin... It's not one or two a week, it is about 4-5 companies a day... It's a joke.


  • #8
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    I think you can buy stickers or signs to put on your postbox to state no junk mail. I saw a few around for the Lisbon campaign.


  • #9
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,220 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    dlofnep wrote: »
    I think you can buy stickers or signs to put on your postbox to state no junk mail. I saw a few around for the Lisbon campaign.

    My ex worked for the chamber of commerce and she had one of them stickers. Great job, but I really shouldn't have to go to all that trouble of buying stickers and that. I will lose it some day and take a visit to these companies and express my unhapiness in ways that they may not like :P


  • #10
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    dlofnep wrote: »
    I think you can buy stickers or signs to put on your postbox to state no junk mail. I saw a few around for the Lisbon campaign.
    It was found to be a key concern of voters in the Lisbon Treaty referendum, amongst other lies.


  • #11
    PurpleBerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭PurpleBerry


    Design a little A4 (or A5 if you can) leaflet/flier. On it you will need the following information:

    • Your Address
    • The message "No Unsolicited Mail"

    Now go around to as many of the applicable companies and post it through their letterboxes after their opening hours.


    Disclaimer: This may not work as, like you, many companies don't read junk mail. Make sure to affix one of your leaflets/fliers to your own letterbox. To increase the chances of sucess add the words "Or I'll sue" in big bold letters.


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  • #12
    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭Danbo!


    Hayley Raspy Program wrote: »
    Hence my reason for posting. It fills up my bin... It's not one or two a week, it is about 4-5 companies a day... It's a joke.

    You need a bigger bin. Just wait for a freepost envelope to be included with some junk mail. Fill it up with all the other junk mail and fire it into the post.
    Or use it as a duvet. Now, doesn't she look cosy?


  • #13
    Saint_Mel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,602 ✭✭✭Saint_Mel


    Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »
    Put a sign up saying 'no flyers or junk mail please'.

    If that doesn't work try posting them all back to the companies they're advertising or using them to insulate your house.

    Also have a translation into many foreign languages cos whoever keeps putting junk mail into my letter box certainly doesn't understand English.

    AnPost also charge some companies to to deliver their rubbish for them, the service is called Publicity Post. I rang to complain before and the reply was "but this is a service we provide and charge companies for" ... and when I told them they still shouldnt be delivering unsolicited mail ... the reply was "but this is a service we provide and charge companies for"

    Since that call I have no problem filling AnPost post boxes with all the junk mail that they put in my letterbox ... and I'm quite good natured in that I dont charge them for the service I provide


  • #14
    Super Sidious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 973 ✭✭✭Super Sidious


    Ring up the companies and complain... I was getting a leaflet a day from Crunch fitness, beside USIT on the quays and rang to complain, the following day the other 48 apartments in my block got a leaflet, but I didnt...WIN!


  • #15
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    There was a great thread somewhere on boards when someone took all their rubbish (empty paint cans, old car wheels) and went down to the post office with them a few times and stuck the 'freepost' letter on top of each one.

    So do that. Or else compress the spam down into paper briquettes.


  • #16
    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,812 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    Hayley Raspy Program wrote: »
    I get this crap posted in the letterbox every day, from take aways to hardware stores. How do I make it stop?
    Resurrect Elvis Presley and have him sing...

    "I gave a letter to the postman,
    He put it his sack.
    Bright in early next morning,
    He brought my letter back.

    She wrote upon it:
    Return to sender, address unknown.
    No such number, no such zone.
    We had a quarrel, a lovers spat
    I write Im sorry but my letter keeps coming back."


  • #17
    Guru Maith Agut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 968 ✭✭✭Guru Maith Agut


    Hayley Raspy Program wrote: »
    Should I charge these companies for my waste fees?

    No. Wrap some of your fecal matter up in the said documentation and stick it back in their letterbox. They send you sh!t you send it back with interest. I can see that working especially if you can get some neighbours to assist and do likewise, obviously using their own sh!t as it would be just unsanitary for you to handle their's.


  • #18
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    I used to design this stuff many years ago.

    Topline, Arro, Expert, SuperValu... you name it...

    You'd know you had a genuine monkeyfudge design in your hands if there were television sets for sale and there were images of monkeys on the TV screens.


  • #19
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    Wait for about 6 weeks, until you have a huge bin bag full of all those flyers. Then walk into the GPO and dump them on the ground and walk out...


  • #20
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    If it's the type of junk mail that has a postage paid return envelope with it then you can have some fun.

    http://officeofstrategicinfluence.com/bulkmailer/


  • #21
    jondo12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 ✭jondo12


    Kablam wrote: »
    I'll let ye all in on a little secret but don't go telling everyone.







    Put them in the wheelybin on the way out the door, shhhh;)
    Maybe the burglar will be kind enough to do that for me when Im on holidays. After all the build up of junk mail enabled him to see nobody was home.


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  • #22
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Hayley Raspy Program wrote: »
    I get this crap posted in the letterbox every day, from take aways to hardware stores. How do I make it stop? It's a foooking joke and I am actually starting to get pissed off about it. It's not one letter, but a 2 leaflets a week from the same company? That is not right, such a waste... and it fills up my bins too. Should I charge these companies for my waste fees?

    Support the economy, go straight out and buy their pizza or bosch drill and they will no longer need to keep sending you these subtle hints. It's a win-win, you get a tasty pizza, no more reminders and they save on printing and delivery costs.


  • #23
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Saint_Mel wrote: »
    AnPost also charge some companies to to deliver their rubbish for them, the service is called Publicity Post. I rang to complain before and the reply was "but this is a service we provide and charge companies for" ... and when I told them they still shouldnt be delivering unsolicited mail ... the reply was "but this is a service we provide and charge companies for"

    Registered letter to An Post stating that you are hereby notifying them that you withdraw any implied right of access to your property for them and their employees for any purpose other than the delivery of mail personally addressed to you and that if after 14 days you find any of them under the property delivering anything else they will be regarded as trespassers and that you reserve the right to have them forcibly removed under the Prohibition of Forcible Entry and Occupation Act, 1971 and that under the Occupiers' Liability Act, 1995 you will not be liable for any loss, damage, injury or death they suffer as a result.

    Pointless Disclaimer: You may want to run this by a proper lawyer as free legal advice from strangers on the interweb tends to be worth every penny you (didnt) pay for it


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