off topic I know, but....

Is it me...or am I the only one to break my back taking the crap that drops through my letterbox courtesy of the post office to my roadside in my recycle bin??

All this happens despite me joining the mail preference service to get rid of it... it still flows and flows and I cannot remember a single item which was useful to me.

Here we are being persuaded to recycle as much as possible, not use a carrier bag when at Tescos, switch all our appliances off standby and we get the farce of all this waste bunged through our letter boxes.

I dont know about you lot...but I am minded to put it all back in the local post box to see if they get the message!

Reply to
biggirlsblouse
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I always send back any pre addressed envelopes to them - empty of course, at least they will get charged for the postage and it'll help get my postage costs down and the posties in work....

Reply to
Miss L. Toe

Allow me to suggest an effective alternative or two -

Despite my having done the same as you - i.e registered at the Mail Preference Service AND also with the Post Office for no unaddressed junk mail - AND having a large and very prominent police notice on my front door...

the junk still arrives.

My solution now is -

Unaddressed junk mail goes back in the post box the next time I pass one.

Addressed junk mail gets returned to sender in their own prepaid envelopes - sometimes with other junk mail too.

If it comes without a prepaid envelope - it goes back in some elses prepaid envelope - from a small stack kept just for such an eventuality.

The moral of this story is - If you can't beat 'em (and you won't) - join 'em!

chas

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chas

Made me chuckle!

Reply to
Bypass

If you have a paper punch for filing documents, empty it into the envelopes you send back. In paper tape days, I used to bring the tiny "chads" home, and they make a right old mess when the envelope is opened.

If I get two, I swap the literature between them.

Reply to
Gordon H

I like that idea...not sure I do enough hole punching though.

Reply to
biggirlsblouse

I love the hole punching idea!

I suppose hole punching could be quite theraputic after a bad day.

If you do get tired of that there's always the contents of your shredder basket.....

chas

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chas

chas writes

Welcome aboard the revenge team!

Reply to
Gordon H

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