Junk the junk

[plaid_dragon]

In the news today was an article about a postman who got suspended for telling his customers how to opt out of receiving junk mail. The Jeremy Vines show on Radio 2 (which usually I hate) decided that it would be in the public good not only to discuss whether Royal Mail were right to suspend him, but to tell you how to opt out of unaddressed junk

Comments

[alihawke]

The really really mean people tie the return envelope to a house brick, and THEN mail it back.

[plaid_dragon]

Royal Mail had to wipe the debt of ...erm, animal liberation front, IIRC... recently. They had been given a Freepost address, for which the tab is picked up by the recipient. Aggrieved anti-ALF folks sent them house-bricks and Yellow Pageses and caused a huge bill to be incurred. I just think it's a pity RM let them off, but then I don't have much sympathy with militant protestors of any flavour.

[pbristow]

Nifty! Thankyou. =:o}

[COPIES INFO INTO VARIOUS PLACES WHERE I MIGHT FIND IT WHEN THE TIME COMES]

[keristor]

One I've heard is to find the ones with prepaid return envelopes and fill them with the other junk mail and send them back. This gets rid of the junk mail and hopefully also sends the message.

Another thing I've heard (but IANAL) is that anything sent to you unsolicited is yours, you have no onus to send it back. So people like Reader's Digest sending you books which they expect you to pay for or return are out of luck. They tried to bill me once for that sort of thing, I asked them for proof that I had (a) requested it and (b) received it. They never replied and I seem to be off their list...

[occams_pyramid]

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2000/20002334.htm
Regulation 24 Inertia Selling
See especially paragraphs 4 and 5 if they try chasing you.

[keristor]

Thanks, now bookmarked...