Are election leaflets exempt from "No Junk Mail" signs?

Specialun

Just take away your letter box..problem solved

mikemac1

Didn't you hear Joe Duffy the other day?

The chairman of the printers lobby group expects the good people of Ireland to accept all junk mail as it keeps printers in business. :rolleyes:

That's right, your no junk mail sign is putting families onto welfare!!

efb

Specialun wrote: »

Just take away your letter box..problem solved

I have attached an incendiary device to it, ironically SF respect the sign (Its not in Irish)

Nodferatu

Just use them to start the fire instead of a firelighter. More useful than a politician ever will be. A

efb

Nodferatu wrote: »

Just use them to start the fire instead of a firelighter. More useful than a politician ever will be. A

leaflets are awful a lighting a fire. Firelighters are much better!

Vote Zip #1!

Henlars67

We don't put election leaflets in letterboxes which have 'No Junk Mail' signs, however I wouldn't personally class election literature as junk.

I like getting canvassers at the door, and if I miss them I read their literature. Even though I am involved in a candidate's campaign I like to hear what other candidates have to say and I use it to decide who gets my second, third preferences etc.

There is a lot of apathy around this time, much more than usual, which while understandable is still a little disappointing.

I do think however let down by politicians that people feel, they should take more of an interest in politics and vote for whichever person or party they think will best represent them and their views.

I don't think the general view that politicians do nothing rather than collect a cheque is fair on most of them.

I know a few politicians across different parties, and while I wholly disagree with some of them and their policies I know for a fact that they put in extremely long hours and sacrifice a lot of family time.

alaimacerc

efb wrote: »

Wrecks my head. I'm not giving a preference to anyone who ignores it.

I guess you'll be saving yourself a trip to the polling booth, then! (Or ending up with the sketchiest of the indos with no leaflets at all.)

efb

Henlars67 wrote: »

We don't put election leaflets in letterboxes which have 'No Junk Mail' signs, however I wouldn't personally class election literature as junk.

I like getting canvassers at the door, and if I miss them I read their literature. Even though I am involved in a candidate's campaign I like to hear what other candidates have to say and I use it to decide who gets my second, third preferences etc.

There is a lot of apathy around this time, much more than usual, which while understandable is still a little disappointing.

I do think however let down by politicians that people feel, they should take more of an interest in politics and vote for whichever person or party they think will best represent them and their views.

I don't think the general view that politicians do nothing rather than collect a cheque is fair on most of them.

I know a few politicians across different parties, and while I wholly disagree with some of them and their policies I know for a fact that they put in extremely long hours and sacrifice a lot of family time.

A lot of people do, I get up at 6.15am to go to work each day and I can't claim expenses for it...

I'm well aware of the work politicians do

But what has that to do with poxy election flyers???

efb

alaimacerc wrote: »

I guess you'll be saving yourself a trip to the polling booth, then! (Or ending up with the sketchiest of the indos with no leaflets at all.)

Well here's the rub, I don't reside in my own local election area. And Sen Ronan Mullen is the only European candidate who's literature was dumped though my letterbox- and I was NEVER voting for him...

handbagmad

Im finding them really handy. Lost my dustpan they make an ideal alternative

shuffles88

I had to close up my letter box on the front door as it let in a terrible draft that froze the place in the winter, so it's now strictly cosmetic. I put a postbox on my gatepost instead, and yet these plonkers keep walking in past my post box, they try the letter box which doesn't open and instead of putting the damn flyer into the postbox on the gate on their way back out they keep putting them on my outdoor mat or in the door knocker. I won't be voting for anyone that doesn't understand how to use a post box.

alaimacerc

I don't think people really get the concept of a "mail box" In These Islands.

Conversely, in Sweden they don't seem to understand letterboxes. Former colleague of mine moved there, and found himself trying to explain the concept, he later told me. "'A hole?? In the door?!?'"

efb

alaimacerc wrote: »

I don't think people really get the concept of a "mail box" In These Islands.

Conversely, in Sweden they don't seem to understand letterboxes. Former colleague of mine moved there, and found himself trying to explain the concept, he later told me. "'A hole?? In the door?!?'"

These Islands??? Is that official now?

Fred Swanson

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urabell

If you get a leaflet from a candidate you don't like just fart on it and send it back to them

efb

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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The British Isles is official, but These Islands'??? Wtf is that???

SparkySpitfire

efb wrote: »

The British Isles is official, but These Islands'??? Wtf is that???

You know they're talking about the British Isles.

We don't live in one of the Maldives, if we did then that's what he'd mean when he said "These Islands".
We live in the British Isles. Therefore these islands = British Isles.

efb

SparkySpitfire wrote: »

You know they're talking about the British Isles.

We don't live in one of the Maldives, if we did then that's what he'd mean when he said "These Islands".
We live in the British Isles. Therefore these islands = British Isles.

Why did he capatise the T?

SparkySpitfire

efb wrote: »

Why did he capatise the T?

I took it as a mistype.

efb

I don't like people tying to rename British Isles- These Islands

alaimacerc

efb wrote: »

These Islands??? Is that official now?

Nope, the caps were somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Colleague was Welsh, and no shortage of letterboxes there I gather, so wouldn't have made a lot of sense to say "Irish letterboxes".

alaimacerc

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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Really? Official according to whom? GFA doesn't use the term. Irish embassy is on a hair-trigger alert to fire off missives to anyone saying "British Isles", just as with "Republic of Ireland". Use it in the wrong places and you'll get tsked at. Or worse.

Fred Swanson

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efb

Lolz!

alaimacerc

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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That's exactly why I tend to see use These Islands! Saying "British Isles" is just a conversational minefield. I imagine it's why the GFA does too, though not all of those Republicans had been fully decommissioned to their armchairs, as I recall.

Wryly amused by this after just being told I was a lackey of the British monarchy over in another AH thread.

And sitting on a sofa, btw.

efb

Great so no leaflets with British Isles or These Islands either!!!

alaimacerc

Maybe if Le Group de Ukip start leafleting us all again...

efb

An Post emailed my back and said if I advise them of my address I won't get "direct mail" (junk mail) from them