Review rated by 29 Ciao members on average: helpful
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Wouldn't it be refreshing to wake up and find on your mat, not a dozen or more credit card invitations that you don't remember requesting, or the Book Clubs offering you 'Priority Treatment' if you'll buy their fire-damaged stock of Harry Potter? Why can't our poor heavily-laiden postie just deliver the 'real' letters/parcels and bin the stuff he (she) knows we'll trash anyway, thus saving them a journey? Oh right...their employer says they can't because the law says they can't!
It is a never-ending cycle; Pat delivers & we bin....Pat deliv...you know what I mean! We CAN break this intrusion and annoyance, and save not only our sanity but also save the postie a heck of a lot of work, and in turn saving his employer a heck of a lot of money! (Isn't it correct that the mail service is actually losing money per letter sent these days? Little wonder with that endless stream of prepaid rubbish gushing through their sorting offices every day. And wouldn't our posties once again find their chirpy morning whistle.) "We can?" I hear you scream as you scramble closer to your screen, hoping for that life-changing word of wisdom as if you are about to recieve next Saturday's Lottery numbers.... It is so simple... I started this about 8 months ago after my new property was bombarded with sales pitches of every description possible, often addressed to, "The Occupier" or "The head of the house"! Others addressed as if they already have my account details filled in already just waiting for my nod! But never handwritten are they? I spend time opening up what probably amounts, in mass, to a whole tree, and carefully cut out my details before tearing the rest of the literature into pieces...all except for the prepaid envelope, so often enclosed, and I package the lot back up with a little note to tell them to remove my details from their database immediately and send back in tomorrow's post! Needless to say, I never hear again from them. This costs them not once but twice everytime they send out their junk and you can be sure that any company will get tired of having to hoover the mailroom twice a day! OK, so it won't help Royal Mail in the short-term but if we all did this then sooner or later it will dry up, and the humble postage stamp will once again find its worth.
ITEMS REQUIRED Junk mail with prepaid envelope Scissors Sticky note with "Dont send this crap to me" notice A whistling postie to deliver it!
Once cut up and sent back, sit and wait for more junk mail...then wait, and wait, and wait......
Smashing idea - I'm goign to do it to. Mind you for the last 3 years I have been receiving Computer Weekly with a strangrs name (I have lived in mmy huse 14 years) and sent it back more than dozen times with a note and it still keeps coming, so I shan't hold out a whole load of hope for it working for all the companies!! Rxxxx
What a great idea!!!! The ones that really get to me gulp...dare I say it.... are the chairties that send a free pen, and then beg you to donate to thier cause....I feel too annoyed to donate (I like to give willingly, not because I am goaded into it), too guilty to use the damn pen, and scared of my conscience should I throw the pen away, and I think I would feel nasty returning it and costing them double the money! Got any suggestions???? (I will defo be employing your method for ALL other junk mail though!!!!
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03.11.2004 17:57
Smashing idea - I'm goign to do it to. Mind you for the last 3 years I have been receiving Computer Weekly with a strangrs name (I have lived in mmy huse 14 years) and sent it back more than dozen times with a note and it still keeps coming, so I shan't hold out a whole load of hope for it working for all the companies!! Rxxxx
11.09.2004 12:32
I completly agree. I hate junk mail... just means more work driving to the recycling bin!
09.09.2004 15:44
What a great idea!!!! The ones that really get to me gulp...dare I say it.... are the chairties that send a free pen, and then beg you to donate to thier cause....I feel too annoyed to donate (I like to give willingly, not because I am goaded into it), too guilty to use the damn pen, and scared of my conscience should I throw the pen away, and I think I would feel nasty returning it and costing them double the money! Got any suggestions???? (I will defo be employing your method for ALL other junk mail though!!!!