Comments on: Stopping the junk mail flood 3 http://stilgherrian.com/marketing/stopping-the-junk-mail-flood-3/ All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Vive les poissons rouges sauvages! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:24:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/marketing/stopping-the-junk-mail-flood-3/#comment-31677 Stilgherrian Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:06:58 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5793#comment-31677 <strong>@Mark Hamlett"</strong> Yes a similar "come and pay to collect your unpaid mail" also applies in Australia. Or it did. I don't imagine it's changed. @Mark Hamlett” Yes a similar “come and pay to collect your unpaid mail” also applies in Australia. Or it did. I don’t imagine it’s changed.

]]> By: Mark Hamlett http://stilgherrian.com/marketing/stopping-the-junk-mail-flood-3/#comment-31676 Mark Hamlett Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:01:35 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5793#comment-31676 In the UK we have an alternative option. I receive anything up to 15 takeaway food menus a week. Kebabs, curries, pizzas, Chinese, burgers, all of these (and more) can be delivered. I'm contrary enough to refuse to have a sign on my letterbox (why should I vandalise my own property just to stop receiving unwanted flyers?). What I do is post the flyers back to the responsible parties, but not put a stamp on it. In the UK (dunno about Australia, I'm afraid, I understand that some ancestors went over a couple of hundred years ago, but that's about it), the recipient of The Post With No Stamp receives a notice from the Post Office to the effect that they have to pay a surcharge before receiving their own flyer back! All is then good. In the UK we have an alternative option. I receive anything up to 15 takeaway food menus a week. Kebabs, curries, pizzas, Chinese, burgers, all of these (and more) can be delivered.

I’m contrary enough to refuse to have a sign on my letterbox (why should I vandalise my own property just to stop receiving unwanted flyers?). What I do is post the flyers back to the responsible parties, but not put a stamp on it. In the UK (dunno about Australia, I’m afraid, I understand that some ancestors went over a couple of hundred years ago, but that’s about it), the recipient of The Post With No Stamp receives a notice from the Post Office to the effect that they have to pay a surcharge before receiving their own flyer back!

All is then good.

]]> By: Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/marketing/stopping-the-junk-mail-flood-3/#comment-31593 Stilgherrian Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:53:19 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5793#comment-31593 <strong>@Richard, Brisbane:</strong> Yes, your advice seems to match that given by commenters to the previous posts in this series. [<a href="http://stilgherrian.com/marketing/stopping-the-junk-mail-flood">1</a>, <a href="http://stilgherrian.com/marketing/stopping-the-junk-mail-flood-3/">2</a>] My experience so far is that the bigger distributors and advertisers take complaints seriously. Good point about the low wages too. @Richard, Brisbane: Yes, your advice seems to match that given by commenters to the previous posts in this series. [1, 2] My experience so far is that the bigger distributors and advertisers take complaints seriously. Good point about the low wages too.

]]> By: Richard, Brisbane http://stilgherrian.com/marketing/stopping-the-junk-mail-flood-3/#comment-31592 Richard, Brisbane Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:53:04 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5793#comment-31592 I deliver "junk mail" for a living, or at least I did until the company I sub-contracted for went belly up. I used a tracking device which customers could then use to see exactly where their mail was being delivered. Our policy was to never put mail in a post box which had a no junk mail or equivalent sign on it. We also adhered to a policy of placing the mail inside the mailbox and not throwing it on the ground. I can sympathise with people who receive mail in large formats which is jammed into their postboxes not allowing for any other deliveries and as for those people who drive around in cars and toss the mail onto the street... well that's just littering. If anybody has a complaint it should be about this behaviour. If anyone has a gripe about junk mail please contact the company who is advertising firstly and make a complaint then contact the distributors and complain, they should then reprimand their walkers. If I can say only one thing in defence of the "walker" it is "please put a 'no junk mail sticker' where it can be clearly seen" I have inadvertently put mail in a mailbox with a sticker, being unaware it had a sticker as it was not clearly visible. I hope to keep delivering this material in the near future as I believe a) companies need to advertise and b) lots of people like their junk mail. So I hope in the future "walkers" will respect the people who do not want junk mail and the distribution companies will clean up their act. As for a footnote... maybe if the distribution companies paid their walkers a fair wage they wouldn't have half the problems they do. I deliver “junk mail” for a living, or at least I did until the company I sub-contracted for went belly up. I used a tracking device which customers could then use to see exactly where their mail was being delivered. Our policy was to never put mail in a post box which had a no junk mail or equivalent sign on it. We also adhered to a policy of placing the mail inside the mailbox and not throwing it on the ground. I can sympathise with people who receive mail in large formats which is jammed into their postboxes not allowing for any other deliveries and as for those people who drive around in cars and toss the mail onto the street… well that’s just littering. If anybody has a complaint it should be about this behaviour. If anyone has a gripe about junk mail please contact the company who is advertising firstly and make a complaint then contact the distributors and complain, they should then reprimand their walkers. If I can say only one thing in defence of the “walker” it is “please put a ‘no junk mail sticker’ where it can be clearly seen” I have inadvertently put mail in a mailbox with a sticker, being unaware it had a sticker as it was not clearly visible. I hope to keep delivering this material in the near future as I believe a) companies need to advertise and b) lots of people like their junk mail. So I hope in the future “walkers” will respect the people who do not want junk mail and the distribution companies will clean up their act. As for a footnote… maybe if the distribution companies paid their walkers a fair wage they wouldn’t have half the problems they do.

]]> By: Steven Noble http://stilgherrian.com/marketing/stopping-the-junk-mail-flood-3/#comment-30883 Steven Noble Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:16:06 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5793#comment-30883 Agreed. We should be extremely cautious about making laws against rudeness, just as I'm glad there are no laws against me rudely telling everyone just how rude I think they are! :-) Agreed. We should be extremely cautious about making laws against rudeness, just as I’m glad there are no laws against me rudely telling everyone just how rude I think they are! :-)

]]> By: Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/marketing/stopping-the-junk-mail-flood-3/#comment-30874 Stilgherrian Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:39:54 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5793#comment-30874 <strong>@Steve Noble:</strong> Indeed, 'tis rude. Though I should have mentioned, as someone did in one of the comments of a previous post, that anyone can stick anything they like in a letterbox. @Steve Noble: Indeed, ’tis rude. Though I should have mentioned, as someone did in one of the comments of a previous post, that anyone can stick anything they like in a letterbox.

]]> By: Steven Noble http://stilgherrian.com/marketing/stopping-the-junk-mail-flood-3/#comment-30872 Steven Noble Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:34:36 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5793#comment-30872 Religious organisations are exempt from the law, but the behaviour is still rude. Religious organisations are exempt from the law, but the behaviour is still rude.

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