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Fed up of Royal Mail sending you junk mail?

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Postal Postie II
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Fed up of Royal Mail sending you junk mail?

Post by Postal Postie II »

Here's what I do...

I buy cheap crappy envelopes in bulk then I mail it BACK to the companies who sent it to me WITHOUT paying the postage. :left:

So Royal Mail can then charge them for the crap they send through them in the 1st place.

As a customer I DO NOT WANT JUNK MAIL!!! I should not have to "opt out" either!!! :evil/mad
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Re: Fed up of Royal Mail sending you junk mail?

Post by TrueBlueTerrier »

Postal Postie II wrote:Here's what I do...

I buy cheap crappy envelopes in bulk then I mail it BACK to the companies who sent it to me WITHOUT paying the postage. :left:

So Royal Mail can then charge them for the crap they send through them in the 1st place.

As a customer I DO NOT WANT JUNK MAIL!!! I should not have to "opt out" either!!! :evil/mad

That's silly - it costs RM money and it costs you money. (you buy the envelopes) (RM pay to raise a surcharge, the Co don't pay and RM have to pay to dispose of.)

If you are so keen on sending it back then use the PPI envelopes. Free for you, free for RM and they charge the companies through their account.

As a customer, I don't like them, as an employee they are a traffic stream that brings us profit and keeps at least some of us still working (bundling centres), I do think the Opt out system needs to be looked at though, its long laborious and not customer friendly.
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Re: Fed up of Royal Mail sending you junk mail?

Post by hatetheboss »

All those people who moan about Door to Door must be mad THEY PAY YOUR WAGES AND KEEP YOU IN A JOB. These people must be stupid.

Why would you want them stopped? Next you will be moaning about parcels and letters. :arrrghhh
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baldrick
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Re: Fed up of Royal Mail sending you junk mail?

Post by baldrick »

I can't see the problem either. Direct mail does create work for RM employees and the people employed by the mailing firms. It must generate enough interest to the companies using it or they wouldn't go to the expense of doing so.
Sometimes I do get something of interest to me, and the stuff I'm not interested in goes in the recycling bin, not too difficult. and I reuse the reply envelopes, sticking a label over the return address.
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Re: Fed up of Royal Mail sending you junk mail?

Post by borders »

how hard is it to just put it all back in your Green Bin ? I don't get it ?? is it some kind of private intrusion thing ??
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Re: Fed up of Royal Mail sending you junk mail?

Post by goldy »

borders wrote:how hard is it to just put it all back in your Green Bin ? I don't get it ?? is it some kind of private intrusion thing ??
Yeah I don't get it I don't like delivering it but what's the big deal the way some people react to it is silly just bin it (recycle)
I do understand about unwanted telephone calls though and unwanted sales calls at the door and I do understand scam mail
Is a big problem these are the areas of privacy invasion that need controlling.
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Re: Fed up of Royal Mail sending you junk mail?

Post by steven100 »

hatetheboss wrote:All those people who moan about Door to Door must be mad THEY PAY YOUR WAGES AND KEEP YOU IN A JOB. These people must be stupid.

Why would you want them stopped? Next you will be moaning about parcels and letters. :arrrghhh

Yeah lets stop letters and parcels too. How can we stop these!!!! :left:
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Re: Fed up of Royal Mail sending you junk mail?

Post by JiminyBillyBob »

hatetheboss wrote:Why would you want them stopped? Next you will be moaning about parcels and letters. :arrrghhh
There in't many people in my office who don't moan about parcels! But then I am stuck in a office full of old gits who constantly talk of when they would maybe get one parcel a day and have a second post?
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Re: Fed up of Royal Mail sending you junk mail?

Post by demon »

If you don't want it just put it in the bin
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Re: Fed up of Royal Mail sending you junk mail?

Post by RedBagMan »

When you say "Junk Mail" do you mean addressed mail or unaddressed mail ?

If it's addressed mail just bring a few "Kill Off" stickers home and endorse it as "refused" ... if it's unaddressed ... opt out - you're on a computer to post on here - it's not difficult ...
"We're under model" - oh no we're not - stick your lapse elsewhere ...
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Re: Fed up of Royal Mail sending you junk mail?

Post by Mr Blonde »

baldrick wrote:. and I reuse the reply envelopes, sticking a label over the return address.
I find it quite sad that postmen don't know how BRP's work. Just as sad as those who think they're clever by ignoring surcharges and BRP's and delivering them without being docketed. You wouldn't deliver mail for free so why not let RM collect the revenue owed?
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Re: Fed up of Royal Mail sending you junk mail?

Post by UnhappyGremlin »

I always send back anything in the pre-paid envelopes, more business for RM.
I view it as returning the s**t from where it came.
Sometimes, I wish I wasn't a Rep.
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Re: Fed up of Royal Mail sending you junk mail?

Post by Spedley »

Almost all junk mail comes from sustainable forests, therefore the more junk mail you receive the more forests there are.
Sign up for everything and do your bit for the environment! :)
baldrick
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Re: Fed up of Royal Mail sending you junk mail?

Post by baldrick »

Mr Blonde wrote:
baldrick wrote:. and I reuse the reply envelopes, sticking a label over the return address.
I find it quite sad that postmen don't know how BRP's work. Just as sad as those who think they're clever by ignoring surcharges and BRP's and delivering them without being docketed. You wouldn't deliver mail for free so why not let RM collect the revenue owed?
I do put a stamp on them. Got plenty of my Xmas stamps left. I'm just reusing the envelope.
Postal Postie II
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Re: Fed up of Royal Mail sending you junk mail?

Post by Postal Postie II »

What part of "I don't want it" are some people not getting???

Can I go around posting used toilet paper through peoples letter boxes and insist that they have to opt out???

No of course not.

Should be the same with junk mail!

I don't want it! I didn't ask for it!

If people want it they should opt in!!!