junk mail reduction

Unaddressed Mail and Leaflets delivered by Royal Mail

Consumers can also reduce the amount of unsolicited unaddressed mail and
leaflets they receive (addressed to occupier and householder etc) by
registering with:

Royal Mail Door to Door Opt Out,
Room 130
Wheatstone House
Faraday Rd
Swindon, SN3 5JW

Tel: 0845 7905 950
Email: opt...@royalmail.co.uk or mediacentre.cu...@royalmail.co.uk

Presumably this posting will also be cached in various places for future
reference.

Paul
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Paul Leyland <pc...@gen.cam.ac.uk> | Hanging on in quiet desperation is
Dept. of Genetics, Cambridge University | the English way.
Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EH, UK | The time is gone, the song is over.
Tel: +44-1223-333963 Fax: +44-1223-333992 | Thought I'd something more to say.

Did you see this news story today:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5294708.stm

"A postman who advised people how to stop junk mail being
delivered to their home could lose his job after bosses
suspended him for misconduct."
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Roland Perry

Makes sense at least from Royal Mail's point of view. A very large
proportion of Royal Mails revenue is derived from delivering junk mail. They
don't want to bite hand that feeds them.

-p
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Gotch, v. To surprise with a remark that negates or usurps a remark
that has just been made.
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Dave
mail da v...@llondel.org (without the space)
http://www.llondel.org
So many gadgets, so little time

Why do you think I went searching? Until that report came along I didn't
even know it was possible to get the PO not to send me unaddressed junk
mail. I've long been registered with the addressed mail, the fax and the
telephone equivalents.

Didn't work for me. I still get the same amount of crud.

Jon

An email to optout@ elicited slightly different information. The postal
address has changed and they now claim not to be able to prevent delivery
of mail addressed Theo. C. Cupier.

The current address, it appears, is

Kingsmead House
Oxpens Road
OXFORD
OX1 1RX

I know the place well, having lived just down the road from there.

But think of the Children^H^H^H trees!
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Roland Perry

Works very well for me.

Chris Forecast

hasn't made a jot of difference to me (I used the new address) :-((

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SCoop

I've had a reply from them asking if I _really_ want to opt out. They
warn me that I won't get anything that isn't addressed to me, including
any government leaflets. Difficult choice :-)

As discussed here recently you need to talk to your post person and tell
them you're opted out. IME this works except when they're having a week off.

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Paul Oldham ----------> http://the-hug.org/paul
Milton villager ------> http://www.miltonvillage.org.uk/
and FAQ wiki owner ---> http://cam.misc.org.uk
"Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?"

Good point - I think the electoral roll form is usually addressed to
'The Occupier' or something similar.

I have one here: it's addressed to "The Present Occupiers".

As such, I suspect it doesn't qualify for the
whatever-Consignia-is-called-this-week opt-out for unaddressed mail.
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Roland Perry

... but it's addressed so it gets through even if you're opted out. For
us SCDC seem to rely on their magazine and the County on "blow ins" to
the free paper so being opted out doesn't stop stuff from government.

"Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance"

An article on Radio 4 PM just now pointed the listeners at
<http://www.mydm.co.uk> so that they can find out just how wonderful
junk mail is.

In particular, <http://www.mydm.co.uk/control-dm-faq.html#q10 says this:

""""""
How do I stop flyers that come through my letter box and unaddressed mail?

At present there is not one single service that stops all such
promotional material but the DMA are looking into developing such a
scheme. You can however stop a significant proportion of unaddressed
mail (door drops) by contacting Royal Mail on 01793 483853 to request an
application form.
""""""

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Martin
Music at www.martinsaxon.co.uk

Yeah, I thought long and hard about that one too, for at least, ooh, a
picosecond?

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SCoop

> I'm sure you'll find that they are required to provide a mechanism to
> opt out of junk mail delivery, but making that mechanism impossible to
> find is not exactly the spirit of what was intended.

It reminds me of the location of the demolition order on Arthur Dent's
house in HHGTTG, in a locked filing cabinet in a disused toilet with
"Beware of the Leopard" on the door.

out of date address snipped

A quick Google came up with the following useful looking site:

http://www.junk-mail.org.uk/

As well as lots of useful links addresses etc, it provides forms for
specific opt outs (e.g. banks, credit card issuers, insurance
companies etc.). It also has the latest postal address for the Royal
Mail Door to Door Opt out, although I wouldn't be at all surprised if
the postbox at this address is actually underneath a filing cabinet in
the basement.
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Alan Levy (alan...@delete-this-first-ntlworld.com)
Delete the spoiler to reply by email!

I wonder if the fact that I'm opted out was the reason why I didn't get a
copy of the new Royal Mail price/size guide? According to the Royal Mail
website "We've sent a copy of the Size Guide to every address in the UK",
but I don't know whether they were actually individually addressed.

Chris Forecast

I suppose they are talking about the 'Protect and Survive' type stuff.
Umm.

just shoved through the door unaddressed IIRC.

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SCoop

Of course they weren't.
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Roland Perry

Funnily enough we got that one, but I don't think it was delivered by
Royal Mail.

"Everyone seems normal until you get to know them"

I got one in the actual post adddressed to me.

Kevin

Nor me. That postie has done us all a favour. Hope everything works out ok
for him.

According to comments by post office management in the Times you have to use
the right form. Simply writing to them isn't enough.

According to comments by post office management in the Times you have to use

According to comments by post office management in the Times you have to use

By potentially reducing an income-stream which subsidises our stamps?

Douglas de Lacey

All right, all right, we heard you the first time.

But probably a bit of a home goal from the management since all the
media publicity surrounding the case will have alerted a lot of people
who previously didn't know about the service.

Andrew

There's no "probably" about it. It's all over the newspaper front pages
today, and on the TV news.
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Roland Perry

By reducing the amount of tax we have to spend on handling the extra rubbish.

Tony.
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f.a.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/
FAIR ISLE FAEROES SOUTHEAST ICELAND: NORTHWESTERLY 5 OR 6 BECOMING VARIABLE 3
OR 4, THEN EASTERLY 5 OR 6 IN SOUTHWEST LATER. RAIN OR SHOWERS. MODERATE OR
GOOD.

Yes. I'm on the side on the postie too.

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Brian

and the address was very clearly, slowly and carefully read out several
times on radio 4 yesterday

Anne

absolutely, I'm a firm believer in paying the price that something costs,
which is why farm subsidies drive me round the bend, less farm subsidies
ought to mean less tax and then we could pay the necessary price increase.

Anne

You are assuming that if something costs less to produce, then the
producers and retalers will pass on the cost benefit to you. Ths may
well work with some products, but don't assume that it will work with
food, for example.

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GR

Very true. But I am also worried about accidently binning proper mail
while sorting, sometimes quite fast, all the crap that comes through
the door.

Jon

I'd rather pay the full price of stamps and have the post office pay me to
sorth the real post from the junk.

Postal Address:

Door to Door Opt Out
Royal Mail
Kingsmead House
Oxpens Road
Oxford
OX1 1RX