An interesting news item

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Copied from drplokta

Allegedly, the Royal Mail has suspended a postman for telling people living on his round how to opt out of the "Door to Door" service that delivers unaddressed advertising material with your post. Wouldn't it be a shame if the publicity around this inspired a few million people to email optout@royalmail.co.uk with their postal addresses and ask for the form to opt out?

Wouldn't it just...

Later: Received the form by email - they make it clear that you really don't get much of a reduction in post, and others have pointed out that this is generally ignored by postmen. But I'll give it a try anyway.

Comments

[w00hoo.livejournal.com]

I didn't realise you could do that. As I already do both the Telephone Preference Service and Mail Preference Service to stop other nuisance phone calls and junk mail deliveries that would be a perfect edition. I have just emailed them asking for some forms. Thanks.

[gbsteve.livejournal.com]

I tried to find this address on the Royal Mail website but they hide it very well. In fact, google can't find it at all.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

We used to have a postman who kept all of the junk mail for delivery on a monday. And most of the time he just put it straight in the bin at the beginning of his shift.

He was great, I loved Jimmy.

[w00hoo.livejournal.com]

It's beyond an 'alleged' or at least it made a decent chunk of airtime on PM this evening. Oddly the only person who seemed to think it was a problem was the guy from the Direct Marketing agency. Although he did mention this URL http://www.mydm.co.uk/control-dm-faq.html which mentions all the various options (TPS, EPS, MPS, FPS and a phone number for Door to Door cancellation forms)

[booster17.livejournal.com]

I sort mail all day long, and never knew a thing about this myself. Left hand, this is right hand....

[w00hoo.livejournal.com]

If the left hand sounds muffled it may be because the company have put a glove shaped gagging order on it without you realising :-)