Be direct with 'direct mail' (paper spam)

[purpletigron]

For those of you in the UK, who haven't tried this already, I recommend looking at

The Mailing Preference Service

which should be able to remove you from about 95% of UK direct mailing lists. For door-drop post, addressed to 'The Householder', you will have to find some blank paper and write to:

Door-Drop
OPT-OUTS
Room 130
Wheatstone House
Wheatstone Road
Swindon
SN3 5JN

Edit There is also a Telephone Preference Service and a Fax Preference Service. Thanks to carandol for the reminder :-)

Comments

[muninnhuginn]

Ooh, that second bit's news to me. Might do that, although, thinking about it, I'd be missing out on a certain number of free biros that way. Are the biros woth the bother of the rest?

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

No one needs that many biros - and Cancer Research could be using the money to cure cancer instead...

[muninnhuginn]

True.

At least they tend to be half length nowadays. So that's a little less plastic.

[maureenkspeller.livejournal.com]

I find a lot of the cancer research mailings seem to border on the downright offensive in their self-referential up-frontness, but PK reports that these tactics do work on people who are not, like us, immune to the practices of marketing.

[maureenkspeller.livejournal.com]

I can highly recommend the Mailing Preference Service (huge drop in direct mailnig from all sectors) but if the Door-Drop scheme is the same as the 'write to the Post Office at this address and your local postman will desist from filling your letterbox with the crap he has to drag round and deliver to each house' scheme I signed up to, it's not working very well down here as the postmen don't seem to pay attention. But I shall try again, as I do not need all this bumpf.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

I've just registered with all the combinations I could think of, for Mater, D and G too.

I hope that if you complain to your postman, and then write a letter of complaint to the address given too, you might stand a slightly better chance?

[maureenkspeller.livejournal.com]

Part of the problem is the massive turnover of postmen on this round. If they're not told, and I don't believe they are, they deliver. And I think some deliver anyway because it's too much of a fiddle to remember who doesn't have the leaflets. Which does make one wonder about the logistical feasibility of the door-drop scheme, however pleasing the result would be.

[carandol.livejournal.com]

I don't suffer much from junk mail -- it mostly goes to my landlady, who seems to enjoy that sort of thing. But I found this

http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/

very useful for getting rid of unwanted phone calls. I still get a few, but if I tell the unwanted caller I'm on the list, they immediately stop their attempts to sell me stuff and get all apologetic.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Mater was pleased with them - thanks for the reminder. Our number is ex-directory, and I've not had any trouble in two years. But at the first sign of it... :-)

[eleyan.livejournal.com]

thank you for posting these. We've just moved and I've been meaning to get around to registering with the phone preference service, this made it easy.