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

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  • #32
    SparkySpitfire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,331 ✭✭✭SparkySpitfire


    efb wrote: »
    Who exempts them?
    My understanding just mail is anything not posted and addressed to the resident.

    When people heed "no junk mail" signs, they're not obeying a rule or following a law, they're showing courtesy and regard for the person who put up the sign.

    It's optional to follow so there can be no exemptions because there's no rule.

    Just save yourself and the canvassers the hassle and let them know their specific literature is unwanted by specifying with another sign.

    One man's junk is another man's pot-pourri... or something to that effect.


  • #33
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,606 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    efb wrote: »
    My understanding junk mail is anything not posted and addressed to the resident.

    exactly and election leaflets certainly are junk mail.

    Actually they're worse, they're just propaganda.


  • #34
    FrStone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 720 ✭✭✭FrStone


    efb wrote: »
    Who exempts them?
    My understanding just mail is anything not posted and addressed to the resident.

    Ah come on, its hardly like there is some quango deciding what is and isn't junk mail.

    Junk Mail is just something you have to deal with, you can try & reduce it by putting up those signs - I prefer to get the junk mail as the signs look really tacky and you only see them in certain types of areas.

    You know how to solve this problem, put up a sign saying no political literature. Problem solved.


  • #35
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    FrStone wrote: »
    Ah come on, its hardly like there is some quango deciding what is and isn't junk mail.

    Junk Mail is just something you have to deal with, you can try & reduce it by putting up those signs - I prefer to get the junk mail as the signs look really tacky and you only see them in certain types of areas.

    You know how to solve this problem, put up a sign saying no political literature. Problem solved.


    Do u need a sign for all types of junk mail???


  • #36
    Kalyke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭Kalyke


    The_Minister wrote: »
    Election literature is not junkmail.

    The_Minister for....????:P


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,713 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    "No junk mail" signs don't make a blind bit of difference, they are totally ignored from my experience.


  • #38
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    Do 'no junk mail' signs actually work?
    i would think it would stop some, but not every git.
    Mauricio Itchy Sitcom wrote: »
    "No junk mail" signs don't make a blind bit of difference, they are totally ignored from my experience.

    Made a huge difference for me. I have a sign that says "Posted mail only. No Leaflets. Thanks!", and it works a treat except for political leaflets. It seems the people hired by these politicians don't have the courtesy to abide by my wishes.


  • #39
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 24,713 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    CrazyRabbit wrote: »
    Made a huge difference for me. I have a sign that says "Posted mail only. No Leaflets. Thanks!", and it works a treat except for political leaflets. It seems the people hired by these politicians don't have the courtesy to abide by my wishes.

    Made absolutely no difference when we out one up, same stuff was coming in the door everyday as before.


  • #40
    Gongoozler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    I was just thinking this this morning. The amount of waste. We have a no junk mail sign, and the candidate stuff still comes in. It's junk, it's unsolicited, which is what the sign implies we don't want.

    But after I run it by others in the building I'll put up a sign for the election stuff. Such a waste.


  • #41
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,018 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    If you need something that the junk mail is advertising junk mail can be very useful.


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  • #42
    Capt'n Midnight
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    kneemos wrote: »
    If you need something that the junk mail is advertising junk mail can be very useful.
    You really don't understand what the interweb can be used for do you ?


  • #43
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    porn?


  • #44
    IvySlayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Those feckers who shove a catalog through your letterbox then ring your house a week later asking for the magazine back are the absolute worst.

    I informed the guy I threw it in the bin and he threw quite a strop over it!!

    Election leaflets should not be exempt, they are just politicians advertising themselves!


  • #45
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,331 ✭ [Deleted User]


    my no junk mail sign works


  • #46
    skelligs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 196 ✭✭skelligs


    This works (has worked)

    Sign -
    "We have 3 votes in this house. The candidate that posts the least literature through this letterbox gets all three votes"

    It won't stop the stuff coming from the AnPost, but it will stop the canvassers putting stuff in.


  • #47
    SaveOurLyric
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭SaveOurLyric


    I keep all my election leaflets and drop them into the letterboxes on my estate that have 'no junk mail' signs.
    Who do they think they are not accepting their fair share of junkmail? Of course nobody wants it, but what makes them think they are exempt from binning it like the rest of us ?


  • #48
    Maphisto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭Maphisto


    We live in the very rural west. If any candidate is kind enough to deliver election litrature to us, Mrs Maphisto and I use it to stop coffee cups marking the table.

    So far we have only received one in six plus years - GO FG.


    I also have my eye on some of the election posters. They are made of a sort of corrugated plastic and I could use them to repair some animal housing. Is it illegal to remove them?


  • #49
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    SaveOurLyric wrote: »
    I keep all my election leaflets and drop them into the letterboxes on my estate that have 'no junk mail' signs.
    Who do they think they are not accepting their fair share of junkmail? Of course nobody wants it, but what makes them think they are exempt from binning it like the rest of us ?

    What gives anyone the right to post unwanted junk in my mailbox?


  • #50
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #51
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    what gives them the right to send me unwanted bills. The bastards


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  • #52
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
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    A mailbox does???


  • #53
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    norrie rugger wrote: »
    what gives them the write to send me unwanted bills. The bastards

    You sign up for them


  • #54
    Infini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,654 ✭✭✭Infini


    You need one of these for elections theyre MUCH more effective! ;3

    http://www.galatiinternational.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/MRS003.jpg


  • #55
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    efb wrote: »
    You sign up for them

    never signed up for property tax :-(


  • #56
    Zamboni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,306 ✭✭✭Zamboni


    Brian Lawlor - Fine Gael
    Worst offender ever.
    Leaflets twice a week for the past six months.
    One of his leaflets actually stated he had received multiple complaints about his constant junk mail and that he did not consider it junk mail and carried on regardless :pac:


  • #57
    Fred Swanson
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  • #58
    Zamboni
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    Fred Swanson wrote: »
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    The sunny suburbs of South County Dublin


  • #59
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    This post has been deleted.


  • #60
    Silverbling
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 311 ✭✭Silverbling


    I have a sign on my door saying "no politicians, history shows you ignore the public so knock and prove you ignore us" so far no knockers :)


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  • #61
    Snake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Snake


    It's not to fill your house with rubbish, it's to inform you of why you should vote for them, if you plan to vote, then you need to read about it. Some of the stuff is popped in by people working on behalf of the candidate some is actually posted by the candidate. Cllr. Joe Ryan was knocking at my door when I was away, even left a note to say he was there and I missed him. How nice.


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