Poll: What do you do with junk mail?

[thep02]

Leave it in the porch until someone slips on it then recycle.

 

[snowdog]

Haha, I only just noticed this is about actual mail not email ?

I ignore it, when there's a pile I'll throw em away.

 

[413x]

I've bought a shredder recently.
But I'm worried it's becoming a fetish! I get too much satisfaction from putting TV licence letters through it

 

[Andre]

Shred it, then in the normal bin as our council can't recycle shredded paper!

I work for a charity, and the stuff some people put in prepaid envelopes would surprise you - including indecent/inappropriate material!

 

[Sandycheeks]

put it all in a basket in the crap cupboard in the kitchen until you can't open the door without a few letters falling out then open/skim/tear up and bin.
/repeat

 

[xGBHxPegasus]

The worst offender round here is Virgin. If they send me anything with a return address I RTS it. It probably makes no difference but I like to think they have to employ people to deal with their own junk mail.

Yup same at my place. Considering we're a block of flats and they have already said "yeh its too expensive to put it down your road" I don't see why they bother sending them to our address.

Maybe I should phone up and ask for all these deals on internet

 

[FeFiDoh]

I work for RM and get fed up of delivering it. I even tried to take myself off the mailing list but nothing seemed to come from it. Royal mail don't class what they deliver as junk mail, it is considered live mail like a letter is and is a sackable offence not to deliver it. The reason they give is that they target the mail so its appropriate for the area. However, that does not stop me delivering 60+ pizza menus each week to an old peoples home.

Also I echo the statement about Virgin media and labour. Just today I have had more labour stuff come through my door. So far I have delivered letters, newspapers, leaflets from them, the last 2 on several separate occasions. Virgin Media don't even address stuff properly and a lot already gets sent back to them. A straight with highest number being 12 and they send mail to it with number 100 or something crazy.

 

[arknor]

I put them in the post box over the road lol.

bet RM hates me, if it's addressed to my house they usually keep coming back

if everyone did the same they would soon stop posting unsolicited crap

 

[413x]

Maybe I should just put something heavy in the return envelope like 2 pence pieces!

 

[Worthy]

They get auto filtered in junk mail folder.

Never waste time on em.


Replying isn't smart, as it confirms your mail addy is real.
I do like to troll scammers though, and will sometimes reply for my own entertainment.

He's talking about actual post, printed on paper.

 

[Yaayuh!]

I update my "local takeaway stash" now and then, and recycle the old ones.
Virgin Media, i send back to them because they really do take the biscuit.

 

[ebilcake]

C. Burn it in sacrifice to the Mail gods in hope I get something cool delivered for my faith in them!

This, sort of.

They usually end up in draws and every so often I'll have a clear out and burn them all.

It's somewhat satisfying.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

I just write "not at this address" and post it back. This has stopped a lot of the junk except mainly for takeaway leaflets, and for some reason, Barclay's Bank are still gagging for my custom, like once a week for the last several years now. None of the other banks do this.

 

[NMBlack]

It goes straight in the recycling bin (after removing any name and address details). I used to do the "return to sender" stuff, but now I just can't be bothered.....

 

[Diddums]

Junk mail? Sauteed in a nice red wine with a bit of rocket on the side, delicious.

 

[Mrs Seabiscuit]

Bin it no not recycle BIN!

 

[dowie]

normally throw it away, one of the residents in my block has left a paper bin by the letter boxes, people just drop it in there when they check their post and the cleaner deals with it

am tempted to send some of it off in a pre-paid envelope

 

[Nevakonaza]

Letterbox junk mail - Bin.

Email - I often get Paypal scam Junk mail..i just forward it all to Paypal Spoof so they can have it taken down..i feel im doing a good service for us all.

 

[Sandycheeks]

I work for RM and get fed up of delivering it. I even tried to take myself off the mailing list but nothing seemed to come from it.

Just stop delivering your own mail ?


An Electrician, a Carpenter and a Brick layer are on a building site eating their lunch. The first one opens his lunchbox and exclaims " I don't believe it - tuna sandwiches again!! If I get tuna tomorrow, I'm going to climb up the scaffolding and jump off!"

The carpenter opens his lunchbox and exclaims "Would you believe it - cheese sandwiches again! If I get cheese tomorrow, I'm going to climb up the scaffolding and jump off!"

The bricklayer opens his lunchbox and exclaims " Oh no - ham sandwiches again! If I get ham tomorrow, I'm going to the top and jumping off as well!"

The next day, they all sit down to lunch. the electrician opens his lunch. " I don't believe it - tuna!" Goes up the scaffolding, jumps off, dead.

The carpenter opens his. "Oh no - cheese!" Climbs up, jumps off, dead.

The bricklayer opens his. "Oh no - ham!" Climbs up, jumps off, dead.

Week later the funeral takes place. The priest is comforting the widows. The electrician's widow is crying and says to him " I don't understand it.If only he had told me, I would have given him something different!"

Priest goes to carpenter's widow. "I don't understand it either, if he had told me I would have packed something different!"

Bricklayers widow is crying and exclaims " I REALLY don't understand it, mine made his own sandwiches!!

 

[thebennyboy]

My dad crushes all junk mail into briquettes that we can burn on the fire.