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No Junk Mail! 

Why is it that when you put a clear sign on your front door saying "No Junk Mail, thank you", you get more stuffed through your letter box. It really winds me up. I got home yesterday to find hand flyers from two different cleaning companies, three building companies, a mobile fresh fish supplier, two business cards from local taxi firms and a new pizza delivery! And how do all these pizza delivery people exist together. I mean I know we're all partial to a bit of Italian, but not so much that we need a zillion different companies to supply us, surely?

It may be that a dog's the only way forward. No, that's a tad cruel. Those kids who lob the stuff through the letter box are only doing it for a bit of extra dosh. Like we used to do paper rounds. But still, the sticker just under my letter box is fairly clear. How about a bin type thing next to the front door which says, "all junk mail in here please?"  No, that might annoy them and they'll wedge a load more in your letter box. Or, perhaps a notice on the door stating you use " Pizza Hut" for pizza, taxis for cab journeys, so and so for cleaning...etc etc. I don't know if that would work either. I never had this problem in my old flat which was on the first floor. The chap downstairs used to pick up all the leaflets. Now i'm in a house, I get lumbered.

The upside of all the junk mail, makes great lighter fuel for the barbeque!

Keep it coming. (until the weather turns!)

Toby

Posted by Toby Anstis on May 07, 2008 at 09:31AM

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