Junk mail from Dominos Pizza addressed to "Pizza Lover" with the full address.
I am a tad peevish.
If they can't respect the fact that we don't want junk mail, do they really expect us to buy anything from them?
Have sent them an angry e-mail and stuck the junk back into the mail with "not known at this address" (perhaps if they get a few thousand they might take the hint) but I'm not sure who to complain to they've stuck to "the letter of the law" on mailing but certainly not the spirit.
I want to type lots of words that would get me kicked off the board.
we have opted out of royal mail delivered stuff, but that doesn't stop us getting hand delivered stuff where the business owner pays some little scrote a few quid to deliver his leaflets for him
oh how I love my tea, tea in the afternoon. I can't do without it, and I think I'll have another cup very
ve-he-he-he-heryyyyyyy soooooooooooon!!!!
We've had the same leaflet — and we're more than 30 miles from the nearest Domino's outlet.
But Domino's are not the only ones to get around the opt-outs in this way. We've had bumf addressed to "Mr Lounger" (from a sofa outlet), Mr B M W Motorcycle (from a motorbike parts outlet), and Mrs Garden Lover (from a mail-order nursery).
It's irritating to say the least. So, I keep the recycling bin next to the letterbox for maximum efficiency.
When we had a landline telephone we signed up to the telephone preference service which is the same thing for cold calling. It was wonderful fun evertime a cold caller rang up, we'd ask to speak to their manager and then we'd inform them that we'd signed up to the telephoned preference service. Eventually we stopped getting cold calls, it was very effective and I'd highly recomend it. It's a good service to sign older relatives up to.
We always use the reply paid envelope to post their junk back to sender. We signed up to the mail preference thingy years ago but it seems once they get hold of your details nothing stops em!
Terri x
“I'd rather be a little weird than all boring.”
― Rebecca McKinsey
I use the rely envelopes from things such as unsolicited credit applications, fill them with the pizza menus and send back. the credit company not only gets charged for their pizza menu, i also get rid of any menus I don't want.
oh how I love my tea, tea in the afternoon. I can't do without it, and I think I'll have another cup very
ve-he-he-he-heryyyyyyy soooooooooooon!!!!
wrap an old house brick in brown paper then stick the pre paid reply lable to it, they get a huge bill and you get a laugh.
try not to be to harsh if you get leaflets with your post, the posties HAVE to deliver them to everyone not signed up to the scheme and the Royal mail checks reguarly they have been delivered and the average round in my area is 700 addresses per day so if only 20 people have opted out its hard to keep track of the addresses.
Better to put a note in the window or door requsting no leaflets, then I never post them when I help out.
I get really irritated with unsolicited mail and cold calls so signed up to TPS & MPS. Didn't know about the Royal Mail opt-out so just signed up.
However, what REALLY gets my goat is mail addressed to the previous owner of the house. She moved out over 3 years ago. Again, it is advertising bumf - nothing of importance. I have now learnt to put Return to Sender on it and pop it back in the post. HOPEFULLY someone will get the hint.
I do that, too... Just had a Littlewoods catalogue (weighing about a ton!) through addressed to my predecessor, who hasn't lived here for 5 years - hope they charge them massively for getting that back!
I'm also very annoyed at some e-mail offers that I keep getting: one, ticketweb, I think, I unsubscribed from three times, only to get a new one a day or so later. I then sent an email to their helpdesk, with a threat to notify the regulators - and they told me I had to click on the link in their mails to unsubscribe.... Which I'd done three times (with confirmation that I was now off their list). Well, they've stopped for now - I hope.
Another one, for ferry tickets, shows something up on their "unsubscribe" button that tells me it's not working - ah, great. Can't even complain. I suppose I could find a phone number somewhere - but I really don't want to spend money on phoning them when they should never have mailed me in the first place!
The most annoying thing about the unwanted snail mail is that we can't stick envelopes in the recycling bin - so I still have to waste time sorting through the envelopes/sheets/cards...
Ina
I'm a size 10, really; I wear a 20 for comfort. (Gina Yashere)
Wotta Wally wrote:
However, what REALLY gets my goat is mail addressed to the previous owner of the house. She moved out over 3 years ago. Again, it is advertising bumf - nothing of importance. I have now learnt to put Return to Sender on it and pop it back in the post. HOPEFULLY someone will get the hint.
We still occasionally get something addressed to the previous resident and we've been here fifteen years! I stick them back in the post with a comment that, should they wish to contact him, they should try via the Prison Service as he's doing serious time for being caught with a million quid's worth of heroin in his possession!
I also get stuff addressed to me in my maiden name (been married nearly twelve years). It does make you wonder where they are getting the info from.
Another thing making my mind boggle at the moment is that the house next door is empty and the estate agent has a for sale board up and has nailed the letter box shut. This does not deter the free-paper deliverers who wedge the rag into the old dog-guard, on top of the one they left there last week...
ina wrote:The most annoying thing about the unwanted snail mail is that we can't stick envelopes in the recycling bin - so I still have to waste time sorting through the envelopes/sheets/cards...
I was thinking about this the other day - is it because of the glue or the celophane window? Anyone know? If it's the window, can you not just tear it out and recycle the remainder?
It's both, up here in Aberdeenshire. We had been ripping the windows out of envelopes, but our paper recycling was still rejected because of the glue. The council only wants high quality, uncontaminated paper as that can be sold for a reasonable amount.
