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D2D target market

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Stormproof
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D2D target market

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The d2ds I get on my duty are a waste of time and embarrassing to deliver. The residential part on my duty consists of private/council/sheltered flats. So what do I get lumbered with Double glazing & conservatories :crazy: , vets(no pets allowed in any of the flats), learn spanish(most of them can barely speak english). Totally fecking pointless!
So keep on moving, moving, moving your feet
Keep on shuf-shuf-shuffling to this ghost dance beat
Just keep on walking down never ending streets


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PhilthyPhil
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All walks in the postcode sector get the same D2D so the targeting is not that great. I deliver to MoD housing half the stuff is a waste of time because as you say it is windows, boilers, solar panels etc. We also get a lot of the MPs newsletters being delivered outside their constituencys because we have some villages within the same sector that are not very close at all geographically.
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PhilthyPhil wrote:All walks in the postcode sector get the same D2D so the targeting is not that great. I deliver to MoD housing half the stuff is a waste of time because as you say it is windows, boilers, solar panels etc. We also get a lot of the MPs newsletters being delivered outside their constituencys because we have some villages within the same sector that are not very close at all geographically.
"All walks in the postcode sector get the same D2D" - no they don't. We get different Door To Doors for different SPDOs within our Postcode Sector. :Very Happy
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Are you sure you don't mean postcode district?

AA1 is district
AA1 0 is sector

in our area at least all walks in the same sector get the same D2D.
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Stormproof wrote:The d2ds I get on my duty are a waste of time and embarrassing to deliver. !
Sums it up.
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Stormproof wrote:The d2ds I get on my duty are a waste of time and embarrassing to deliver. The residential part on my duty consists of private/council/sheltered flats. So what do I get lumbered with Double glazing & conservatories :crazy: , vets(no pets allowed in any of the flats), learn spanish(most of them can barely speak english). Totally fecking pointless!
Yeah, but according to the latest research, 87% of people want crap they don't need, didn't ask for, and heartily detest.
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DirtyHarry wrote:
Stormproof wrote:The d2ds I get on my duty are a waste of time and embarrassing to deliver. The residential part on my duty consists of private/council/sheltered flats. So what do I get lumbered with Double glazing & conservatories :crazy: , vets(no pets allowed in any of the flats), learn spanish(most of them can barely speak english). Totally fecking pointless!
Yeah, but according to the latest research, 87% of people want crap they don't need, didn't ask for, and heartily detest.
private flats have windows
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Re: D2D target market

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we have to deliver pizza menus to addresses from where if you phoned the shop to order a pizza they would say sorry we don't come that far! :crazy:
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olilew wrote:we have to deliver pizza menus to addresses from where if you phoned the shop to order a pizza they would say sorry we don't come that far! :crazy:
they might do does it say we only deliver so far ??
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olilew wrote:we have to deliver pizza menus to addresses from where if you phoned the shop to order a pizza they would say sorry we don't come that far! :crazy:
It is also possible to collect pizzas
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bringon4dayweeks wrote:
DirtyHarry wrote:
Stormproof wrote:The d2ds I get on my duty are a waste of time and embarrassing to deliver. The residential part on my duty consists of private/council/sheltered flats. So what do I get lumbered with Double glazing & conservatories :crazy: , vets(no pets allowed in any of the flats), learn spanish(most of them can barely speak english). Totally fecking pointless!
Yeah, but according to the latest research, 87% of people want crap they don't need, didn't ask for, and heartily detest.
private flats have windows
No good for a tenant though.
So keep on moving, moving, moving your feet
Keep on shuf-shuf-shuffling to this ghost dance beat
Just keep on walking down never ending streets


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Who cares, I just deliver them (and I actually surprised about how many people read them, at least the RM Delivery to Neighbour ones), as long as I'm in my hours then I just do them without a care these days :chuckle
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D2D's are our friend..........................but you knew i'd say that. :Very Happy :oops:

Seems though that blanket coverage is easier and probably cheaper than finding out exactly what type of addresses there are in the mail shot.
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POSTMAN wrote:D2D's are our friend..........................but you knew i'd say that. :Very Happy :oops:

Seems though that blanket coverage is easier and probably cheaper than finding out exactly what type of addresses there are in the mail shot.
t n t is our friend and so is UK mail then
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PhilthyPhil wrote:
olilew wrote:we have to deliver pizza menus to addresses from where if you phoned the shop to order a pizza they would say sorry we don't come that far! :crazy:
It is also possible to collect pizzas
Unlikely when they're 300 miles away. :crazy: :dance