Poll: How much mail does your household get?

[SpacePhoenix]

I can often go a couple of weeks without getting anything. It's also rare for me to get any d2d. Nothing that I've had in the last year or so has been urgent enough that it couldn't have just been delivered once a week.

[Oscar_Grouch]

One letter a month maybe. occasionally a bit of addressed marketing stuff.

In fact I get so little mail that getting a letter in an unmarked envelope is always unexpected and panic worthy, it's like back in the day when the house phone rang after 9pm, can only assume that myself or someone I know is in huge trouble!

[yellowbelly]

1. How many letters does your household get through your letterbox each day on average?

2. Does your household actually require all/most of those letters - could you remove your name from mailing lists, go digital with bills/bank statements, but don't choose to because you haven't got round to doing so?


It amazes me that in this digital age households still get mail daily and my assumption is that most of this mail is not even wanted, it's just that people don't bother removing their address from mailing lists or going digital.

1. Are you working for DK
2.Do you want thousands of people to lose their jobs?

Based on your reply you must be signing up to every mailing list going for junk mail and magazines, sticking to paper bills and bank statements to do your bit to keep the business afloat.

Personally I am not going to do that - it's a waste of paper and ink getting mail you do not need and then throwing it straight in the bin.

but maybe you should start campaigning for posties to do the same as you because 82% of postie households are getting less than 5 letters a week according to this poll.

In the long term it might be pointless but at this time I'd rather campaign for mail rather than against it as you seem to be doing.

Job and finish is what you keep wishing for, I'm sure you'll get it eventually. Not necessarily in that order.

[norris9]

1. How many letters does your household get through your letterbox each day on average?

2. Does your household actually require all/most of those letters - could you remove your name from mailing lists, go digital with bills/bank statements, but don't choose to because you haven't got round to doing so?


It amazes me that in this digital age households still get mail daily and my assumption is that most of this mail is not even wanted, it's just that people don't bother removing their address from mailing lists or going digital.

1. Are you working for DK
2.Do you want thousands of people to lose their jobs?

Based on your reply you must be signing up to every mailing list going for junk mail and magazines, sticking to paper bills and bank statements to do your bit to keep the business afloat.

Personally I am not going to do that - it's a waste of paper and ink getting mail you do not need and then throwing it straight in the bin.

but maybe you should start campaigning for posties to do the same as you because 82% of postie households are getting less than 5 letters a week according to this poll.

In the long term it might be pointless but at this time I'd rather campaign for mail rather than against it as you seem to be doing.

Job and finish is what you keep wishing for, I'm sure you'll get it eventually. Not necessarily in that order.

It's pointless getting mail you don't need because it's not good for the environment (and I'm not even that environmentally focused), it's a hassle with things like bank and billing documents as you need to shred those before putting them into the recycling bin to prevent identity theft and fraud. It's a personal choice. I don't care if you get mail you don't need - that's your choice. It was simply a question to get an idea of how much mail is delivered that isn't actually needed, but it needs its own poll, so look forward to that one.

I don't believe you have ever thought to yourself 'I don't need these bank statements, or bills, or junk mail, but I'll keep myself on the mailing list to help Royal Mail out'.... I don't believe people think like that.

People either actually need or want those letters or they are too lazy to cancel them.

[qwerty2]

1. How many letters does your household get through your letterbox each day on average?

2. Does your household actually require all/most of those letters - could you remove your name from mailing lists, go digital with bills/bank statements, but don't choose to because you haven't got round to doing so?


It amazes me that in this digital age households still get mail daily and my assumption is that most of this mail is not even wanted, it's just that people don't bother removing their address from mailing lists or going digital.

1. Are you working for DK
2.Do you want thousands of people to lose their jobs?

Based on your reply you must be signing up to every mailing list going for junk mail and magazines, sticking to paper bills and bank statements to do your bit to keep the business afloat.

Personally I am not going to do that - it's a waste of paper and ink getting mail you do not need and then throwing it straight in the bin.

but maybe you should start campaigning for posties to do the same as you because 82% of postie households are getting less than 5 letters a week according to this poll.

In the long term it might be pointless but at this time I'd rather campaign for mail rather than against it as you seem to be doing.

Job and finish is what you keep wishing for, I'm sure you'll get it eventually. Not necessarily in that order.

It's pointless getting mail you don't need because it's not good for the environment (and I'm not even that environmentally focused), it's a hassle with things like bank and billing documents as you need to shred those before putting them into the recycling bin to prevent identity theft and fraud. It's a personal choice. I don't care if you get mail you don't need - that's your choice. It was simply a question to get an idea of how much mail is delivered that isn't actually needed, but it needs its own poll, so look forward to that one.

I don't believe you have ever thought to yourself 'I don't need these bank statements, or bills, or junk mail, but I'll keep myself on the mailing list to help Royal Mail out'.... I don't believe people think like that.

People either actually need or want those letters or they are too lazy to cancel them.

You’re a tree hugger - you sound bitter and twisted about delivering mail - why don’t you just quit and go and work for Amazon
and you can just do parcels all day

[Mr Rush]

It's pointless getting mail you don't need because it's not good for the environment (and I'm not even that environmentally focused)

How much of anything does anyone need? Philosophically, that's for every individual to decide in a free society. Otherwise, at a minimum, you advocate for a return to rationing and austerity; or at its deranged logical conclusion, totalitarianism.

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[yellowbelly]

It's pointless getting mail you don't need because it's not good for the environment (and I'm not even that environmentally focused), it's a hassle with things like bank and billing documents as you need to shred those before putting them into the recycling bin to prevent identity theft and fraud. It's a personal choice. I don't care if you get mail you don't need - that's your choice. It was simply a question to get an idea of how much mail is delivered that isn't actually needed, but it needs its own poll, so look forward to that one.

I don't believe you have ever thought to yourself 'I don't need these bank statements, or bills, or junk mail, but I'll keep myself on the mailing list to help Royal Mail out'.... I don't believe people think like that.

People either actually need or want those letters or they are too lazy to cancel them.

but it appears you want to cut off the revenue source you refer to here...:

As far as I'm aware the average cost of a letter to be sent is probably at least £0.80 even for mass mailings....

It's Summer and maybe 1/3rd of homes are receiving mail each day, but with some homes receiving 2 to 5 letters per day, I'd say I am at least delivering 500 letters per day.

500 x £0.80 = £400 revenue from just the letters at the lightest time of the year.... Add in just £200 for Standard parcels/Tracked/Specials, that's £600 per day for my round....

How the heck is Royal Mail losing money.

If the above is accurate... why do we even need change to the way we deliver.