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NO Junk Mail Sign

  • 10-06-2010 11:46am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭


    does anyone have any idea where i would pick up a no junk mail sign for the letterbox, im sick of the amount of junk that comes in and it seems to be increasing.
    im thinking mc quillans on capel street but if anyone could direct me to a place that definitely sells them i would be grateful

    thanks


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Make one yourself and print it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭bobbi


    I saw them for sale in spar, sallynoggin they might have them in the other spars in the city centre if not any DIY store should have them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,446 ✭✭✭bugler


    Most DIY shops have them. Decwell's on George's St definitely do. I also believe keycutting/shoe repair places sell them, the one in Stephen's Green shopping centre (1st floor) does I think.


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


    My local spar in d24 sells them, this type. Not sure if all spars have them, they're sitting in a box on the counter


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 393 ✭✭kingofslaves


    If you go to mary street that leads to capel st, there is a shop that sells cheapo stuff, they have them. More or less opposite the mary st mall. HTH :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    If you go to mary street that leads to capel st, there is a shop that sells cheapo stuff, they have them. More or less opposite the mary st mall. HTH :)

    the shop on the left (coming from henry street) that sells everything, ill try there, thanks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭cosmic


    bugler wrote: »
    Most DIY shops have them. Decwell's on George's St definitely do. I also believe keycutting/shoe repair places sell them, the one in Stephen's Green shopping centre (1st floor) does I think.

    I tried in there a couple of weeks ago and they were all out. So I tried the little hardware shop up the road from it, on Wexford Street, and I got one there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    does anyone have any idea where i would pick up a no junk mail sign for the letterbox, im sick of the amount of junk that comes in and it seems to be increasing.
    im thinking mc quillans on capel street but if anyone could direct me to a place that definitely sells them i would be grateful

    thanks


    Write one and draw a pic of you doing a Cleaveland on them. They'll get the message ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    WindSock wrote: »
    Write one and draw a pic of you doing a Cleaveland on them. They'll get the message ;)

    or i could draw a cleaveland steamer;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Don't waste your time, it'll be ignored.

    I was being pestered by our East European friends paying me visits, sometimes starting around 03:30am and putting 'charity' appeals for old clothes through my letterbox.

    My dogs would go spaso, waking everyone up.

    Then the runner's on my sliding porch door broke and had to be replaced (three times @ a cost of slightly over €100 each time). This happened because the fvckers would jam so many through the box each time, totally ignoring my noticed for 'No Junk Mail'.

    I bought an outside box and screwed it to my wall, again with a sticker asking for 'No Junk Mail' - to no avail.

    Btw, I had to permanently seal my porch door letter opening.

    Finally I started to set my dogs on the bastards & the problem has all but stopped now.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    Don't waste your time, it'll be ignored.

    I was being pestered by our East European friends paying me visits, sometimes starting around 03:30am and putting 'charity' appeals for old clothes through my letterbox.

    My dogs would go spaso, waking everyone up.

    Then the runner's on my sliding porch door broke and had to be replaced (three times @ a cost of slightly over €100 each time). This happened because the fvckers would jam so many through the box each time, totally ignoring my noticed for 'No Junk Mail'.

    I bought an outside box and screwed it to my wall, again with a sticker asking for 'No Junk Mail' - to no avail.

    Btw, I had to permanently seal my porch door letter opening.

    Finally I started to set my dogs on the bastards & the problem has all but stopped now.

    i need to get a dog.

    since i posted this thread 2 seperate leaflet drops have happened and my hall looks like the floor of a sorting office


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    i need to get a dog.

    since i posted this thread 2 seperate leaflet drops have happened and my hall looks like the floor of a sorting office

    Wanna loan of a pitbull and Staff.. We could transform that sorting office look to that of a slaughter house in about 0.5sec's :D

    Here's Richo's Colgate smile - its for hire :p

    richo11may2010c.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    he ozzes style


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭breakfast roll


    There's a shop in Harolds' Cross, near the Crossbar pub and directly opposite the Centra that sells them for defo ! They even have a sign board outside the shop saying they sell them there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭Wicklowrider


    Regarding the signs effectiveness.
    I printed a sign up for the last local elections. Basically it asked them all to lay off, the last line just said no literature. We noticed a dramatic fall off in the junk mail we were getting even though this note wasn't aimed at it. Unfortunately we still got the clothing request stickers.
    When the elections were over we just cut the last line off the note and taped it up - works well, you'd be surprised the amount of people who respect your request. I'd guess we get only about 5% of what we used to get. So I'd say go ahead and put up the sign - even though thats not what you asked!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    There's a shop in Harolds' Cross, near the Crossbar pub and directly opposite the Centra that sells them for defo ! They even have a sign board outside the shop saying they sell them there.

    really?

    ive worked in the crossbar for nearly 5 years now and never knew the sign shop did them, thanks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 121 ✭✭DecentBee


    Don't waste your time, it'll be ignored.

    We used to get half a dozen pieces of junk mail daily until we stuck a sign on the letter box (just printed one off ourselves and taped it on). Since then we get maybe a couple per week, if that. So it's definitely worth a try.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    DecentBee wrote: »
    We used to get half a dozen pieces of junk mail daily until we stuck a sign on the letter box (just printed one off ourselves and taped it on). Since then we get maybe a couple per week, if that. So it's definitely worth a try.

    I'll have to check the spelling on mine so :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Don't waste your time, it'll be ignored.
    It's definitely helped us. By and large the only stuff we get through now is the charity scammers, the big handfuls of stuff doesn't come through any more.


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


    You can buy them here: http://www.treehugger.ie/


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    I love getting junk mail :o. They used to mostly ignore my Ma's gaf.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭A-Trak


    There's a form you can download and send off to the Irish Direct Marketing Association (IDMA) who apparently maintain the "Junkmail Database"

    So if you're opted out and for example get Junk Mail from Dunnes Stores or Lidl, it makes it easier to kick up a stink :)

    Dunno how effective it is, but you can download the form here, (Also some more details there as well,) and it's a freepost address, so costs nothing and only takes a few mins.

    Hope it helps, I've sent mine off last week, and will let ye know how effective it is, (Or isn't)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    got one of the stickers in the shop on mary street, €2 bleedin 50 each. when i got home there was a chinese takeaway leaflet in the door:mad:
    stuck the sticker on so i hope its effective


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    A-Trak wrote: »
    Hope it helps, I've sent mine off last week, and will let ye know how effective it is, (Or isn't)
    Unfortunately this only applies to direct marketing - stuff addressed to you and delivered by an post. Indirect mail (i.e. unaddressed stuff) isn't covered by the above. If you get a lot of direct-mailed spam though it's definitely worth doing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Sundew


    There is a great little shop on Capel St on the righthandside as you are walking up from Capel St Bridge. Not far from Slattery's Pub.
    I can't think of the name but they have all sorts of small signs and will also make them up for you.
    I bought my No Junk Mail sign in here.

    I've found the mail has reduced but it's still coming in. I live in an apartment block so loads of crap comes from the local takaways. I now collect the leaflets (unaddressed ones), snip them in half and re-deliver them back to the takeways. It makes me feel good :-)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    great start so far, nothing in the letter box or the porch:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,624 ✭✭✭Dancor


    great start so far, nothing in the letter box or the porch:)

    Thiunk of the awesome things you could be missing out on. A new chinese or pizza menu. Later on your mates will be talking about how good the new chinese or pizza place is and you will be thinking to yourself ''Hmmm, why havnt I heard of this place?'' Eventually they wont be your friends because you will have absolutley nothing in common.

    Its never to late to take the sign down.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,084 ✭✭✭dubtom


    We've had a sign now for a couple of years,still get the odd menu,don't mind them tbh,the cloths stuff though bother me. Some of the lazy sh ts have even stuck them on my gate,not even bother to walk the extra 20 feet to my letter box.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,093 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Anyone remember the guy in the US (about 20+ years ago) who got himself on every catalog and junk mailing list he could (multiple times). He used it to fuel his furnace, and got so much that didn't have to buy any fuel. The various companies hated him!

    Not your ornery onager



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


    great start so far, nothing in the letter box or the porch:)

    I was surprised to find they do actually work, I assumed they'd be ignored completely. I think the neighbours are away as there were a whole bunch of advertiser newpapers and leaflets sticking out of their letter box, none of which I received. (and yeah I removed them from their letter box)

    If I got one more bloody Pizza Max menu I was gonna lose it! Side note: don't eat from pizza max.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,244 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    www.getgreen.ie

    We have one of these lying in the kitchen, think my mam has decided it's not getting stuck on her front door :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    got a clothes collection leaflet this morning but that has been the first since the sticker went up so im delighted


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    got a clothes collection leaflet this morning but that has been the first since the sticker went up so im delighted

    I'm jealous, I'd to let the lads out @ a fvcker this afternoon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭cruibin


    I love junk mail, I save it and make paper logs :)) free fuel and you cant beat a real fire.

    But I have noticed with my neighbours that in most cases only the "legit" mailers have taken any heed of the signs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    I'm jealous, I'd to let the lads out @ a fvcker this afternoon.

    You're onto a loser with that if they take a lump outta them though. Our fella is big enough to bark through the mailbox if he wants to and it doesnt deter the "charity workers"


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭iMax


    Got a sign before going on holidays a couple of weeks ago. We were getting six/seven pieces per day up to that point.

    So fat all I've had in the door is a political leaflet from one of the local labour guys, but I think they're legally obliged to deliver them.

    Didn't think it would work as well as it did.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    I had this up for a while, and it reduced the amount of crap in the letterbox.

    !!WARNING!!


    Advertisement leaflets/mail are unwanted here.
    If you LITTER my property with them,
    I WILL prosecute YOU for illegal dumping
    and for TRESPASSING on PRIVATE PROPERTY.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15 mog24


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    These signs REALLY work. Price includes postage anywhere in Ire or UK.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭iMax


    After orkinng for ages, fid now we're gettig a load again :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15 mog24


    What does that mean?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 405 ✭✭Econoline Van


    I don't agree with delivering stuff in the wee hours but what's wrong with bending over a few times a day to pick up some leaflets and put them in the recycling bin? It keeps someone in a job at least. I deliver political/local issue leaflets and letters sometimes and this no junk mail craze is making my life very difficult. People get so worked up about a piece of paper landing in their hallway....ridiculous if you ask me. Go get worked up about something important ffs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,296 ✭✭✭RandolphEsq


    I don't agree with delivering stuff in the wee hours but what's wrong with bending over a few times a day to pick up some leaflets and put them in the recycling bin? It keeps someone in a job at least. I deliver political/local issue leaflets and letters sometimes and this no junk mail craze is making my life very difficult. People get so worked up about a piece of paper landing in their hallway....ridiculous if you ask me. Go get worked up about something important ffs.
    I dont like a whole pile of ****e on the floor of my house. It is effectively someone throwing, what is to me, rubbish through my litterbox. Sorry, letterbox


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15 mog24


    It would seem, iconline that you are the one getting worked up about nothing here. People have the right to decide whether or not they wish to receive uninvited post through the letter box, and perhaps you may consider the many people who are NOT able to bend to pick up "a few leaflets".

    You choose to deliver them, we choose to refuse!............

    Mog24


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭Flukey


    I know most people sticking these in doors don't have a connection to the source and so don't give a damn what you do with them, but if you get them immediately after they've been put through the door it can be fun to stand in your porch and catch the eye of the deliverer as they walk into the next driveway and then just rip up what they've just delivered. If you happen to be in the driveway when they come in, you can take them off them, rip them up and hand them back. :)

    The delivery boys and girls don't give a damn, but some of the election workers do, so the upcoming canvassers calling is going to be a fun time. Ah yes, punters and canvassers, the only really great blood sport and one that should never be banned. :) The Greens haven't banned it and they have given us the green bins, so we have that to be grateful for.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 405 ✭✭Econoline Van


    Flukey wrote: »
    I know most people sticking these in doors don't have a connection to the source and so don't give a damn what you do with them, but if you get them immediately after they've been put through the door it can be fun to stand in your porch and catch the eye of the deliverer as they walk into the next driveway and then just rip up what they've just delivered. If you happen to be in the driveway when they come in, you can take them off them, rip them up and hand them back. smile.gif

    That's fairly childish and sad behaviour, if you ask me. The deliverer is trying to earn a living in a country with huge unemployment. Like me, they may have a child to feed. Just because they've come to your property doesn't mean it's right to act like this. Why not go and ridicule some other worker while you're at it? Go and take the piss out of a sandwich board man, maybe? Probably not so brave when you can't scuttle back into your house, I imagine.
    mog24 wrote: »
    It would seem, iconline that you are the one getting worked up about nothing here. People have the right to decide whether or not they wish to receive uninvited post through the letter box, and perhaps you may consider the many people who are NOT able to bend to pick up "a few leaflets".

    You choose to deliver them, we choose to refuse!............

    Mog24

    I'm not getting worked up. It's the people who shout at me from the windows of their house that they don't want a piece of paper through their letterbox who get worked up. I respect that people have the right to decide what comes through their letterboxes. And I blame the take-aways for sending out so much stuff. But as I said, the delivery guys are just trying to earn a living, as are the companies advertising. When a living needs to be earned "choosing" to deliver them isn't really the case anymore. And I doubt there's "many" people who can't bend over to pick something up off the ground, come on. My next door neighbour is 100 and can do that. Besides, there's attachments for letterboxes to catch post, and, indeed, what about regular post they receive. Weak argument.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,093 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    I don't agree with delivering stuff in the wee hours but what's wrong with bending over a few times a day to pick up some leaflets and put them in the recycling bin? It keeps someone in a job at least. I deliver political/local issue leaflets and letters sometimes and this no junk mail craze is making my life very difficult. People get so worked up about a piece of paper landing in their hallway....ridiculous if you ask me. Go get worked up about something important ffs.
    No, you bend over.

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭Flukey


    That's fairly childish and sad behaviour, if you ask me. The deliverer is trying to earn a living in a country with huge unemployment. Like me, they may have a child to feed. Just because they've come to your property doesn't mean it's right to act like this. Why not go and ridicule some other worker while you're at it? Go and take the piss out of a sandwich board man, maybe? Probably not so brave when you can't scuttle back into your house, I imagine.



    I'm not getting worked up. It's the people who shout at me from the windows of their house that they don't want a piece of paper through their letterbox who get worked up. I respect that people have the right to decide what comes through their letterboxes. And I blame the take-aways for sending out so much stuff. But as I said, the delivery guys are just trying to earn a living, as are the companies advertising. When a living needs to be earned "choosing" to deliver them isn't really the case anymore. And I doubt there's "many" people who can't bend over to pick something up off the ground, come on. My next door neighbour is 100 and can do that. Besides, there's attachments for letterboxes to catch post, and, indeed, what about regular post they receive. Weak argument.

    If people don't want them, then they don't want them. I've delivered things to doors, and if I see a sign or person that tells me that they don't want them, then I move on. The vast majority of people, whether they have signs up or not, don't want this stuff, a bit like inboxes filling up with junk email. The printers of the stuff get profits, and the companies they advertise for must get a little reward for it, but I think the vast majority of us don't want it and most of it ends up in the green bin or the fireplace. There is an awful lot of waste.

    There are of course genuine people delivering them who want to earn a living, but you will also see batches of them dumped rather than being delivered by some of the people that do this. If they don't want to deliver them then they should at least throw them in a green bin, rather than leaving them to be scattered all over the streets by the wind.

    It would be great to see people hired to clean up some of the junk that lie on our streets, and I don't just mean the flyers, and get it all recycled. That would be something people would welcome. Our county councils and community groups should do more of that kind of thing. They only seem to do it coming close to elections, especially the local ones. I know of one place near me that was gathering rubbish for years and needed cleaning, and it finally did... a few weeks before the local elections. On that basis, we should have local elections a lot more regularly, as we'd get a lot of what we needed done.

    Having the elections is provided of course that the candidates don't go overboard with election posters, and get every single one of them, and every one of those plastic cable ties removed within days of the election. Within hours of an election being called, these posters are everywhere, but weeks, months and even years, after the final count has closed, there are many of them left. They should be able to get them down as quick as they get them up and there is absolutely no reason why they shouldn't. You can nearly tell the age and the amount of elections that some telegraph poles and street lights have been around for by counting the cable ties, much like rings indicate the age of trees. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Flukey wrote: »
    I know most people sticking these in doors don't have a connection to the source and so don't give a damn what you do with them, but if you get them immediately after they've been put through the door it can be fun to stand in your porch and catch the eye of the deliverer as they walk into the next driveway and then just rip up what they've just delivered. If you happen to be in the driveway when they come in, you can take them off them, rip them up and hand them back. :)
    That's fairly childish and sad behaviour, if you ask me.

    +1.

    Got to agree there. fairly childish & a little sad for an adult to act like that.

    I don't think the person delivering will really give a them, but I'd guess their opinion of someone acting like that would be less than complimentary.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 jondo12


    Most of them have started to ignore the signs now. Especially the charity clothes sticker guy and Mizzonis pizza who leave their junk hanging out of the letter box for all burglars to see. One thing I can do is boycott them.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    jondo12 wrote: »
    Most of them have started to ignore the signs now. Especially the charity clothes sticker guy and Mizzonis pizza who leave their junk hanging out of the letter box for all burglars to see. One thing I can do is boycott them.

    Well its a well-known fact that the "charity clothes collections" are little more than a money making scam..and mizzonis can fcuck off with thier overpriced Pizzas(they bunged a euro onto the price of everything a while back) and i have a pain in my hole filling up my green bin with other peoples junk..i've never actually caught anybody delivering though..but when i do!;)


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