The Future has arrived by post, and it’s full of junk

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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The person who runs Royal Mail was boasting yesterday that half the post her postmen deliver is now junk mail. She wants it to be even more.

This is like BT boasting that half the telephone calls you receive are recorded messages urging you to sue for mis-sold PPI. Or the railway companies boasting that half the passengers have to stand and that overcrowding will become even less bearable if their plans go right.

The Royal Mail under Moya Greene (who, they say, is paid half a million pounds a year) has launched a department called MarketReach, which encourages junk mail. You can tell that MarketReach is The Future because it does not bother with a space between the two words. In The Future, universal provision will mean that no Highland croft is too remote to avoid glossy pictures of exciting new pizza toppings.

In response, many householders put up a sign: No Junk Mail. I have always found this an intriguing indicator of character. It is – rather like calling your house Bethel, or indeed Chatsworth – a refusal to accept reality on its own terms. It can’t possibly have any beneficial effect. At best it reinforces moral outrage: “Another charity leaflet with a free ballpoint. Can’t they SEE it says No Junk Mail?”

My favourite local No Junk Mail sign is a hand-made job in the spirit of Blue Peter, with letters cut out of coloured paper and no doubt pasted on with Gloy. It hangs on a letter box above a wire carrier that fits four bottles of milk and has a dial to tell the milkman how many pints you’d like today, please. Yet I happen to know that no milkman calls in that street.

There are more genteel No Junk Mail signs. Some, in Fulham, are made of a material resembling hand-beaten brass with the words spelt out in shallow, blunt capitals. Sometimes the words are impressed on to the letter box itself, replacing that more obvious message, “Letters”. I do not think letter boxes say Letters in order to inform the postman where to thrust his little burden. It is more in the spirit of bath mats that say BATH or dog bowls that say DOG. This is a tendency deep in the human heart: to plumb the nature of things. It is a kind of poetry. Fire burns, ice freezes and Max eats from a bowl marked DOG.

What Ms Greene is doing is rather the opposite. She is making the dog share its bowl with the cat. It is against nature. We know what post is: a welcome little sheaf of envelopes splayed on the mat like a hand of cards. It is welcome because it comes from people we know. The brown envelopes with threats from HM Revenue and Customs or TV Licensing are doubly horrible because the demand for money, under the pretence of civil communication, comes from strangers.

Ms Green’s MarketReach promotes this trespass. It is like a stranger coming up to you in the pub and asking if you are happy with your car insurance. You can’t exactly say that it is illegal, but it is an insult.

[eastie]

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how much more ?
We are delivering 6 items at the moment
This week we had a County newsletter, 3 more A4 christmas flyers and 2 bulky envelopes .
We could only get 8 houses or flats per bundle . With some loops about 150 calls it is starting to get a bit rediculous.
It might pay soon to do the bulk of the d2d's on mondays and tuesdays and work to your time with 2 or 3 bags per loop , at least it will stop the unscrupulous DOM's from trying to bank hours.

[thefemalepostie]

I think that story is from 2010.

[spen]

9th of march 2010

[eastie]

sorry pasted wrong one, it should have been the one from yesterday.
Here it is
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[hans solo]

just mark it refused and pop it back into the box.
or even more dasterdly put item in envelope write address of sender and dont put stamp on it
it will receive surcharge ha if everyone did it junk mail would soon disappear

[Labdog99]

Only 6 items.I have had 7

[spoodoo]

The sun newspaper have started a campaign to stop junk mail today ,giving people 3 options how to cancel junk mail .

[POSTMAN]

The audacity of the woman!

[monkeymutha]

Well she needs to earn her £500,000 a year, plus bonuses. She was meant to come to our DO for a chat with staff but obviously couldn't be arsed. Too busy sorting out the f***ing junk mail contracts bitch.

[Darren Bent]

Don't like them, but it need to be already prepared for delivery as we haven't got time to sort it out with our tight working hours.

[Lincox]

Been informed that Swings and Roundabouts have now been put on the back burner and that all managers have been informed that they must manage on the basis of resourcing needs, and that they are being put on courses to train them to do this. Therefore clawback or banking whatever you want to call it is a thing of the past. I wait in trepidation.

[eastie]

What about all the arsesylum seekers who round our way deliver charity bags and pizza and kebab leaflets daily , but because I push them through when I deliver the letters they automatically think its the postman that has delivered them

[WornOutPosty]

because I push them through when I deliver the letters they automatically think its the postman that has delivered them

I let them fall to the floor and blow away, sod posting them for the lazy toads! If they can't be bothered to push them through that's their hard luck.

[DGP1]

What about all the arsesylum seekers who round our way deliver charity bags and pizza and kebab leaflets daily , but because I push them through when I deliver the letters they automatically think its the postman that has delivered them

You push them through I usually take them and chuck them on the doorstep............not my job to deliver other peoples work