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Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Mon Jan 24, 05 10:36 am Post subject: Stop Junk mail
Register here to stop junk mail being sent to you: https://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/ You can also register to stop cold calls and annoying faxes.

Fullup

Joined: 09 Dec 2004
Posts: 183
Location: Under water

Posted: Mon Jan 24, 05 2:28 pm Post subject:

We registered for both the mailing and telephone preference service in October last year.

It has certainly cut down on the junk post...just got to convince the postie to stop pushing those hand delivered by your postman envelopes through the door.

The telephone one worked very quickly, the only cold call type things we get now are the occasional recorded messages ones, usually with an American accent.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Mon Jan 24, 05 2:48 pm Post subject:

Fullup wrote:

It has certainly cut down on the junk post...just got to convince the postie to stop pushing those hand delivered by your postman envelopes through the door.

To get rid of those, I think you have to contact your local post office directly, rather than the mailing preference service, telling them not to deliver anything that does not actually have your name on the envelope. The only down side of doing this is that you will not get things like notices from your council about changes to bin collection times, etc.

jema
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28235
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Mon Jan 24, 05 3:14 pm Post subject:
A million thanks, have been meanign to do this for ages, now it is done jema

Pilsbury

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 5645
Location: East london/Essex

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 05 3:46 pm Post subject:
Excellent just signed up and it only took a min, Who says helping to save the planet is hard work.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 05 4:39 pm Post subject:
Glad to see other people doing this: it's such a releif not to have to return all that junk!

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 8655

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 05 6:15 pm Post subject:
Just done it - seldom has clicking on a link been so satisfying!

sean
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 05 10:02 pm Post subject:
You can also use it to help stop stuff addressed to the previous owners of your house.

jema
Downsizer Moderator

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28235
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 05 10:03 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

You can also use it to help stop stuff addressed to the previous owners of your house.

Just as well my wife works with the ex owner of ours, we still get their mail after 6 years

jema

Gertie

Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Posts: 1638
Location: Yorkshire

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 05 10:19 pm Post subject:
We've lived here just over 4 years, we get post for the previous owners, who still live in our village, but we don't see them, if you know what I mean!!! When we move we let everyone we can think of know we are moving, we get all sorts of junk mail for them. I used to have their new address, but lost it a couple of years ago - didn't think I'd still be re-directing mail to them!

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Tue Jan 25, 05 10:38 pm Post subject:
Thank you, Behemoth. I had already registered with the TPS, with much success, but this is great I hope everyone put www.downsizer.net as the place they first heard about the MPS!!!!

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
Posts: 2699

Posted: Tue Feb 01, 05 11:53 pm Post subject:
Yep

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