Barnardos Clothing collection - Junk mail or not?

boredatwork82

I bought a shiny new "No Junk Mail" badge for my letter box at the weekend. Came home today to find a Barnardos clothing collection plastic bag in with the post.
Am I being too harsh in considering this junk mail and writing a strongly worded and expletive loaded email?

4zn76tysfajdxp

Fill it with faeces and send it back to them. It's the only reasonable, adult thing to do. And call them gay.

scudzilla

i fcukin hate it when we get the stickers/requests through asking for old clothes for the starving in Africa.

If they can fit in my clothes then they aint fcukin starvin!!!

Karoma

boredatwork82 wrote: »

I bought a shiny new "No Junk Mail" badge for my letter box at the weekend. Came home today to find a Barnardos clothing collection plastic bag in with the post.
Am I being too harsh in considering this junk mail and writing a strongly worded and expletive loaded email?

I'd say, though it's not wanted, it's not "junk" (It's not the result of damage, and not discarded and the bag has a use). Too bad you didn't fork out for a "No Unsolicited Mail" badge...maybe that'll learn ya for bein' cheap.

Terry

Barnardos: No.
All the others: Wait for them to call to the door and chase them off with a stick.


Don't hit them with it or anything. Just frighten them.

I had the same thingy as you and still got the bogus ones in the door. One of them ****ers ripped it off.

RoadKillTs

Drives me daft those bloody things. They never heed those signs.

4zn76tysfajdxp

RoadKillTs wrote: »

They never heed those signs.

Yeah but are you sure you didn't accidentally attach your sig to the door instead of the one mentioned in the OP? Don't be embarrassed if you did.

Mr. Presentable

RoadKillTs wrote: »

Drives me daft those bloody things. They never heed those signs.

Like the one in your sig?

Twenty10

boredatwork82,
can you tell me where you got the badge, I'm looking for one myself.

Mr. Presentable

Hendrix Raspy Schoolwork wrote: »

Yeah but are you sure you didn't accidentally attach your sig to the door instead of the one mentioned in the OP? Don't be embarrassed if you did.

You're so fast you're entitled to be smug

Terry

Twenty10 wrote: »

boredatwork82,
can you tell me where you got the badge, I'm looking for one myself.

I got mine in Super Valu. Also saw them in various Spar shops. €3 a pop.
They still don't stop the bogus clothes dudes though.

On the plus side, it leaves more room in the recycle bin for empty cans.

Mike 1972

You can always use the bag as a bin liner

Although there is the question of what would have happened if there had been a toddler playing in the hallway when someone decided to push a plastic bag through your letterbox :eek:

Even worse though are the commercial outfits which collect clothes by suggesting/implying/misleading people into thinking they are actually bone fide charities. (we get at least three of these per week) My own personal favorite is the one which cant even spell the name of the country the clothes are supposedly going to.

TheZohanS

Twenty10 wrote: »

boredatwork82,
can you tell me where you got the badge, I'm looking for one myself.

Town.

Kevin Bacon

TheZohan wrote: »

Town.

Which one? There is many of them.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Although there is the question of what would have happened if there had been a toddler playing in the hallway when someone decided to push a plastic bag through your letterbox :eek:

The question of how a toddler got into my hallway in the first place would be more pressing, I'd say.

si_guru

Hendrix Raspy Schoolwork wrote: »

Fill it with faeces and send it back to them. It's the only reasonable, adult thing to do. And call them gay.

pmsl.

Twenty10

Cheers, will look out for them.

I'm sick of the amount of stuff that comes through the door - I'd be happy dealing with the bogus charity bags if I could avoid the rest.

byhookorbycrook

got a "Barnardos " bag through the door here, which turned out to be fake.

4zn76tysfajdxp

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

got a "Barnardos " bag through the door here, which turned out to be fake.

How could you have installed a fake door without noticing?

Sofiztikated

At least you're getting bags! Useful them bags. All I get is stickers, and they're pissing me off. They never come when I'm there so I can throw them back at them, and once we left a bag out to see what would happen.

Guess what.

They never came for it! How rude is that! If you are going to fake scam me to get clothes out of me, at least follow up on it!

TheZohanS

Kevin Bacon wrote: »

Which one? There is many of them.

Hacketstown.

Capt'n Midnight

It it doesn't have an address or at least a land line number then it's a scam and they are fair game.

Kevin Bacon

TheZohan wrote: »

Hacketstown.

Carlow? feck that..

ashyle

They sell those signs where I work. Couldn't you just make one yourself?
Don't have a bitchfit over some junk mail. Whateverrr. It's not as annoying as spam.

Sofiztikated

ashyle wrote: »

They sell those signs where I work. Couldn't you just make one yourself?
Don't have a bitchfit over some junk mail. Whateverrr. It's not as annoying as spam.

It's way more annoying than spam. With spam, its click, deleted. With unsolicited/junk mail, you hear the letter box moving, think "oh, I have received so form of communication, possibly a letter, postcard, or birthday card," you get up, go out to the hallway, and feel the bitter, crushing disappointment when you realise its a sticker asking got "unussed clotheing for Africans"[sic]

Whateverrrrrrrrrr. See, I'm down with the kids, with their hiphop lingo, and their STDs.