13 June 2009

Canberra Advocate and my "NO" junk mail sign on the letterbox

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I have a rather large “No Junk Mail – Please” sign on my letterbox. Now for some reason I keep receiving the Canberra Advocate from the office of Annette Ellis. I hate politics and don’t want to hear her voice / thoughts / whatever on paper in my letterbox.

Anyone else have a problem with No Junk Mail signs being ignored?

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“I like it when I get junk mail (like a credit card application) where they give you a prepaid return envelope. I generally get some other junk mail, and maybe a used teabag, and post it all back.”

I like it and I think I’ll give it a go.If we all did it, it might make some of these banks etc think twice about how much crap they send out.

As for The Chronicle, I had that same problem. When I rang to complain they told me to ring by 12 each Friday of the week you don’t get it and they will speak to the delivery person. You can also ask to have the one you missed personally delivered. If they have to do that for a few weeks, the service definitely improves. I know it is a publication very short on reading material and long on ads but it has a free TV guide, and it’s good for lining the cockatiels cage!

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy said :

I like it when I get junk mail (like a credit card application) where they give you a prepaid return envelope. I generally get some other junk mail, and maybe a used teabag, and post it all back.

But then I am a small and petty man.

LOL 🙂 never thought of it. I will do that. Thanks for the tip.

I keep meaning to do that thing where you use the reply paid envelope to send them some nice spam, but always forget. It’s not petty! It’s a small blow we can strike.

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy8:53 pm 14 Jun 09

I like it when I get junk mail (like a credit card application) where they give you a prepaid return envelope. I generally get some other junk mail, and maybe a used teabag, and post it all back.

But then I am a small and petty man.

I did that when I had a post box, put the Australia Post junk mail straight into the mail box

Aeek said :

its the the offensive propaganda like howard’s fridge magnets that I refuse to acknowledge by as much as refusing the plastic.

I sent mine back!

I have an (inherited) no junk mail signature which is continually ignored.
I’ve trained them to place it in a scoop underneath my letterbox.
I also have an ex-letterbox built into the house designed to catch rain.
Blocking it off didn’t work. Leaving it clogged up with ancient junk mail does discourage Australia Post from using it.

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy said :

Why the hatred of junk mail. If you don’t want the catalogues or whatever else just chuck ’em in the recycling.

What a terrible country we live in that we have to bear all the angst of putting some catalogues in the bin!

it’s not the angst of throwing out the catalogues that is the problem.

Reality of my life is that i get on average 10 letters a month of which 1 would be important, thus i only bother checking the mail about once a month. Aust Post get pissed off if they cant deliver the mail so after getting a number of those “Please clean out your mailbox so that we can deposit your mail” leaflets we got a No junk mail sign. Keeps the postie happy and i dont have to sort through all the crap to find the mail. No angst required.

IF people are putting junk mail straight from letterbox into the bin, why not just hang up a no junk mail sticker and save a few trees?

the story is about junk mail people, not politics.

all stories is about politics, innit? the politics of mail, politics of recycling, mainly though the politics of junk…

Pommy bastard9:17 am 14 Jun 09

Junk mail is a big source of litter.

As The Chronic is too.

It’s a waste of resources and energy. Though I feel for those who want to earn an honest buck by delivering such stuff, I have no desire to clog up my mailbox and recycle bin with it.

I’m off to the UK soon, and although I have made arrangements for my mail to be collected, I don’t want a huge pile of junk crap to come home to.

Gungahlin Al said :

GnT said :

I guess she doesn’t consider it junk? I always thought junk mail was advertising material, catalogues and the like.

Personally, I have a problem with people complaining about everything the government does and politicians being out of touch, then refusing to get involved in the democratic process.

+1

If you read my comments I don’t state that I don’t get involved in the democratic process(vote) – on the contrary, I do vote (liberals) – but even junk mail from them I don’t want 🙂 – the story is about junk mail people, not politics.

Gungahlin Al7:20 am 14 Jun 09

GnT said :

I guess she doesn’t consider it junk? I always thought junk mail was advertising material, catalogues and the like.

Personally, I have a problem with people complaining about everything the government does and politicians being out of touch, then refusing to get involved in the democratic process.

+1

GottaLoveCanberra10:35 pm 13 Jun 09

What annoys me the most is that I have to put a “No Junk Mail” sticker on the box in the first place.

It should be an opt in thing rather than an opt out thing.

removing the plastic

The Chronicle I will deplastic eventually, its the the offensive propaganda like howard’s fridge magnets that I refuse to acknowledge by as much as refusing the plastic.

sorry aeek, but separating rubbish from recycling (like the chronicle in its clingfilm) is something we must all do – even barkig toad, though i’d rekkun s/he wouldn’t!

Recycling bin is a problem when the propaganda is in a plastic bag, I don’t want to unseal the plastic bag so it all has to go in the rubbish.

Recycling bin works for me

A Tadpole Drinking7:36 pm 13 Jun 09

As bd84 says, political material is exempt so will be delivered.
I also have a sign requesting no junk mail which is respected by all delivery folk except for the Chronicle. I send off an email to the editor which results in it being stopped for a while then it starts up again so dash off another email.

bd84 said :

I think political material is exempt from being junk, similar to the do not call register.

miz said :

I don’t consider such publications as ‘junk’, she is your Cth representative after all and at least she is informing you of what the feds are doing in the electorate.

Nothing? Most of it’s filled with BS that has nothing to do with Canberra, and when it did, it was still BS. It goes straight onto the recycling pile without being read here.

This is correct. All political brochures must be delivered regardless of a persons preference for junk or no junk.

I have a PO Box and asked my local PO why I was getting this type of stuff (around election time) and apparently by law they have to deliver it.

It makes sense though (around election time). Every party has an equal chance of getting their policies out there.

technically, a ‘no junk mail’ sign is toothless – you need something that reads along the line of ‘no unsolicited material’ as ‘junk’ is not a defined term; the owners of pest and lest stores, etc, don’t consider their advertising materials as ‘junk’, even though you might.

next.

Fiona said :

is it delivered by Aust post? like those yellow envelopes..

No it wasn’t addressed to me and there was no envelope. It was a brochure.
I like BerraBoy68’s comment – change the sign and send an invoice, I might just do that if I get another:)

As Fiona asked is it addressed to you personally? If so then it is not junk mail from the perspective of the company delivering it.

grunge_hippy5:12 pm 13 Jun 09

i hate junk mail too, and have a sign. mainly because i have a small mailbox, and with all the junk, my normal mail gets trashed when the posty tries to shove it in. I have been getting the political propaganda too. i guess its not considered junk.

my biggest bugbear was when the new phonebooks were delivered. the dumbarse put it on the front door, over our front gate, but failed to realise that my dog, who loves anything to chew destroyed the little yellow pages that was meant for the car. thankfully the normal one was protected in plastic, but she gave it a nibble too. i am still picking up little bits of yellow pages in my yard. grr!

VYBerlinaV8_the_one_they_all_copy4:57 pm 13 Jun 09

Why the hatred of junk mail. If you don’t want the catalogues or whatever else just chuck ’em in the recycling.

What a terrible country we live in that we have to bear all the angst of putting some catalogues in the bin!

I think political material is exempt from being junk, similar to the do not call register.

miz said :

I don’t consider such publications as ‘junk’, she is your Cth representative after all and at least she is informing you of what the feds are doing in the electorate.

Nothing? Most of it’s filled with BS that has nothing to do with Canberra, and when it did, it was still BS. It goes straight onto the recycling pile without being read here.

is it delivered by Aust post? like those yellow envelopes..

No junk mail is supposed to mean mass marketed catalogues.

Anything addressed to a suburb or electorate, like neighbourhood watch leaflets, the chronicle, electoral stuff should still be delivered.

Unfortunately noone has told that to our Chronical deliverer, so we never get one.

I don’t consider such publications as ‘junk’, she is your Cth representative after all and at least she is informing you of what the feds are doing in the electorate.

I have the opposite problem – I get annoyed when important information (such as the rubbish and recycling calendar or info from ACT govt about water restrictions or public meetings) DOESN ‘T get put in my letterbox because it’s being distributed with the advertising material!

Clown Killer said :

Take down the “No Junk Mail” sign and replace it with one that reads “Document Archival and Storage Service. By depositing items here the author(s) of any deposited document agree(s) to be bound by the conditions of this archival and storage facility and to be liable for any fees and charges associated with it.”

Then each month send her an invoice for say $75.00 for the document management services you are providing. It might be a good little earner.

Best laugh I’ve had today! Thanks KC.

Steady Eddie3:53 pm 13 Jun 09

Gee you’re lucky. The only time we receive Annette’s missives is during election campaigns (I live in Pearce).

Clown Killer3:52 pm 13 Jun 09

Take down the “No Junk Mail” sign and replace it with one that reads “Document Archival and Storage Service. By depositing items here the author(s) of any deposited document agree(s) to be bound by the conditions of this archival and storage facility and to be liable for any fees and charges associated with it.”

Then each month send her an invoice for say $75.00 for the document management services you are providing. It might be a good little earner.

I guess she doesn’t consider it junk? I always thought junk mail was advertising material, catalogues and the like.

Personally, I have a problem with people complaining about everything the government does and politicians being out of touch, then refusing to get involved in the democratic process.

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