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Clothes Charity Leaflets

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  • 08-07-2009 10:33pm
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    niall.boland
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭


    Are people tired of getting these leaflets in the door. At the moment I get at least 2 a week delivered between 05:30 and 06:30. Most of the time I am woken up as they make such a racket at the letter box. Does any one else have the same issue with being woken up. I have tried ringing and email the contacts on the leaflets but there has been no response.

    I have no problem receiving the leaflets but why so early in the morning. Is there anything legally that can done besides closing up the letterbox at night?


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    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    They are all cons. The numbers are false.


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    Adamcp898
    Registered Users Posts: 5,469 ✭✭✭Adamcp898


    write a strongly worded letter?


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    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Fill them with rubbish


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    skywalker_208
    Registered Users Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭skywalker_208


    Complain on the interweb? :)


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    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    phasers wrote: »
    Fill them with rubbish

    Sh1t in the bag then put a funk load of clothes in it. Be sure to put it at someone elses door though. Maybe an annoying neighbour.

    That'll learn em.


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    LimeFruitGum
    Registered Users Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭LimeFruitGum


    You know what, I hardly ever received these things when I lived on the Northside. Maybe one a month or two months.But bloody hell, now I'm on the other side of town, I get one (if not two) every week. It is beyond the joke now. Don't they realise that people get these bags every week? We wouldn't have a stitch left to wear at this rate!! :cool:

    Seriously - Penneys are practically giving clothes away at their current prices, can they not go and do a charity shopping spree in there from the money left over from chugging?


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    MoominPapa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭MoominPapa


    LimeFruitGum wrote: »
    You know what, I hardly ever received these things when I lived on the Northside.

    Well they're hardly going to ask the beneficiaries to contribute as much now are they?
    By the way, hows life now your on the sunny side of the river?


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    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    niall.boland wrote: »
    Are people tired of getting these leaflets in the door. At the moment I get at least 2 a week delivered between 05:30 and 06:30. Most of the time I am woken up as they make such a racket at the letter box. Does any one else have the same issue with being woken up. I have tried ringing and email the contacts on the leaflets but there has been no response.

    I have no problem receiving the leaflets but why so early in the morning. Is there anything legally that can done besides closing up the letterbox at night?

    The obvious answer is to set a trap. Then feed the offender to the pigs.


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    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Abigayle wrote: »
    The obvious answer is to set a trap and feed the offender to the pigs.

    But that's entrapment!


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    Abi
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    Darius Defeated Bumblebee wrote: »
    But that's entrapment!

    Well. Whaddyagoddado. The other idea was to take note of their collection date, then tie a rope around a refuse sack of clothes and leave it just outside the door. When they go to pick up the bag, pull the bastard in the door and give him a hiding.

    Nelson laugh optional.


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    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    op get your self a nice big dog when they here a dog growling they tend not to put the hand in letter boxs... :D


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    LimeFruitGum
    Registered Users Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭LimeFruitGum


    MoominPapa wrote: »
    Well they're hardly going to ask the beneficiaries to contribute as much now are they?
    By the way, hows life now your on the sunny side of the river?

    Loike, oh my gawd roysh, amaaaaazing ! :cool: :cool:


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    LimeFruitGum
    Registered Users Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭LimeFruitGum


    chin_grin wrote: »
    Sh1t in the bag then put a funk load of clothes in it. Be sure to put it at someone elses door though. Maybe an annoying neighbour.

    That'll learn em.


    And they expect you to wash the clothes as well, ffs! ;)


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


    have spicy indian every night for a few days then do a duty on top of the crap clothes you put in the bag they leave in the porch, they will get a nice surprise when they open it to look for the 'clothes'


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    rannerap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,900 ✭✭✭rannerap


    just put your rubbish in the bag with a few old t shirts on top,lovely way to keoe the cost of your bing tags down:)


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    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,068 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Who cares if they're cons.

    People want to make old clothes disappear and the men in vans make that happen


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    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    The ones where I used to live were from travellers. Instead of knocking on your door looking for clothes like in the old days, they have this new system.
    So expect anything they don't want to be dumped in the nearest ditch


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    hoorayforbacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭hoorayforbacon


    LimeFruitGum wrote: »
    You know what, I hardly ever received these things when I lived on the Northside.

    Is that where the clothes go???


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    Banter Joe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 384 ✭✭Banter Joe


    You could ring up the companies doing it and ask them not to deliver any more leaflets to your address.


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    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    If you people don't give them your old clothes I go to work naked.

    So please, for the sake of everyone else in my work place, PLEASE DONATE CLOTHES.

    Thanking you.


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    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    If you people don't give them your old clothes I go to work naked.

    So please, for the sake of everyone else in my work place, PLEASE DONATE CLOTHES.

    Thanking you.

    So, on a completely unrelated topic .. where do you work?

    /takes bag back in


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    Mimikyu
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    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    Abigayle wrote: »
    So, on a completely unrelated topic .. where do you work?

    He's a welder.


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    jumpguy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    There was an investigation done (prime time I think). 80% of them (or atleast the vast majority) are hoaxes. And that's fairly true. We don't stop gettin them. Some of them have misspelt words on them.


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    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    jumpguy wrote: »
    Some of them have misspelt words on them.

    God, just when you think these animals can sink no further... :mad:


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    jumpguy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,962 ✭✭✭jumpguy


    Darius Defeated Bumblebee wrote: »
    God, just when you think these animals can sink no further... :mad:
    Yeah but in fairness you'd think a serious charity appeal would spell critical countries right. I mean, Zimbobwe? Fúck's sake.


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    K-9
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    phasers wrote: »
    Fill them with rubbish

    Thought that was the idea.

    Oh right!

    Put 3 blocks in them for no apparent reason whatsoever. For those who have no blocks handy, pick ones at a spot that people will not notice them missing.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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    merlie
    Registered Users Posts: 673 ✭✭✭merlie


    They usually take the clothes to a place in eastern europe and sell them to poor people. Yes you read right they 'SELL' them to people who can't afford clothes. It is a shame as they are not a charity and are making genuine charities work more difficult.

    What you can do is put a note behind your hall door window saying 'NO JUNK MAIL' hopefully that may help


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    MrMatisse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭MrMatisse


    Stroll down to your local halting site and ask to speak to their leader/chief/king and outline your concerns to him. Im sure hed be very understanding.


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    K-9
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    Really-Stressed wrote: »
    Stroll down to your local halting site and ask to speak to their leader/chief/king and outline your concerns to him. Im sure hed be very understanding.

    Huh?

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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