One Stop Website Will Allow Households to Opt out of D2D's

[pinstripe]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... enace.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Our friends at the Daily Mail. (Again)

[Wessex]

The work will just go to private firms who will employ people who may have dubious backgrounds , who will leave every gate

open and will trample every flower bed and will probably decorate your garden with leaflets like confetti.

[POSTMAN]

Not just the Mail,just found loads of news stories on this,we're doomed.

[Throgg]

I liked the comment from Happygirly, "Does anyone know the website address?"

The second paragraph clearly states that it won't be launched until next year

Good ole DM readers

[fishtank]

Not just the Mail,just found loads of news stories on this,we're doomed.

If a national newspaper or a group of them started up a campaign for no apparent reason to boycott say Tesco or McD's wouldn't they be invaded by lawyers and injunctions and all kinds of nasty legal threats?

[happyhippo]

good job the price of stamps is going up to make up the losses from this bit of news.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Left comment: Won't work - once enough people have opted out of Royal Mails Door to Door service then advertising firms will move away from them an use business who won't be covered by the Opt Out.

That means everyone still gets the unaddressed mail, however Royal Mail loose a revenue stream, prices of stamps go up and DM readers get something else to complain about.

Another hidden cost is that the competitors in this market charge more than Royal Mail does. So the companies who are sending you this stuff will need to raise prices to keep their profit margins.

There are no simple solutions to this, and indeed there are consequences the DM have not even considered.


They published it

[maisymoo04]

The work will just go to private firms who will employ people who may have dubious backgrounds , who will leave every gate

open and will trample every flower bed and will probably decorate your garden with leaflets like confetti.

bit like me then ooppss

[Straight4ward]

Leaflets, think of all the people in keeps in work and the tax revenues raised and not just income tax.

The paper industry, printers, designers, ad agencies, distribution networks plus all their suppliers.

I have no idea where the Mail plucked the figure of a disposal cost of £50 million from or whether it is remotely accurate but this cost of doing away with it would more than outweigh any savings.

Think of lost tax revenues, potential increases in benefits to people made redundant. None of this makes any sense.

Last thought: - What's the cost of disposing of all the unaddressed leaflets that get inserted inside The Mail on Sunday?

Oh to hell with it! Why am I wasting time on this? It's the f*cking Mail and who gives a sh*t what they think?

[bexhil palace]

Most people in our office dont bother to do them anyway, so it wont make a blind bit of diffrence to the customers .

[maisymoo04]

what does ye dim do then when he has to return them.or do you dump them ha

[muzzy]

I was about to post this after just seeing it on bbc news website, but see I'm a bit behind!
Here's the link anyway
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15534209" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[ElvisGaddafi]

What's the betting that we get a d2d advising customers of this new website?