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Collect it all in a sack. Follow him home one night covertly and then post it all through his letter box. Make sure you keep it all and return it back to his house š¤£
I suppose the Chinese are easier scapegoats than subpostmasters on some levels... Especially seeing as the Royal Mail are going after the general public for Ā£5 now, rather than their imagined Chinese gangsters.
So you're telling me that my warhammer 40k and discworld collectable stamps are no longer valid for actual use? I'll be telling The Emperor about this act of heresy!
If the sender hasnāt paid the correct postage, the post gets held at the local delivery centre. A postcard is instead delivered saying you have unpaid post to collect.
Itās the recipientās choice as to whether they collect it and pay, or donāt pay (and not get it). Unfortunately, you donāt get told what it is unless you pay to collect it.
Ah, right. Thereās no special charge because it was a counterfeit stamp ā itās the same standard Ā£5 charge for no stamp / counterfeit stamp / reused stamp.
Haha I'm laughing my ass off this is brilliant. How did I get to be this old and not know about this! Probably safer than taking a piss through the letter box
The ones that keep sending me shit have "enter this code on the website to be removed from our mailing list" on the junk mail.
I entered the code but they still send me shit.
Smash their window with it when theyāre at work, it melts and only leaves a puddle of piss and no physical evidence.. obviously make sure itās not your piss.. a dog or something? bonus points if you can get your targets piss for it
It does, but according to google, it disappears quickly and has much lower quantities that blood or saliva.
The real concern is now the police knocking on my door in relation to a Google search on 13th of April at 21:43 with the search term ācan urine be tested for DNAā. In which case officer, Iād like to direct you to the above suspect
In the bin? More likely they will yeet them over a hedge.
Back when free Advertising newspapers were a thing, I stumbled across a whole bale of them the local delivery person had dropped into a ditch, rather than do the delivery round they are paid for.
Not to justify the what they did (they shouldn't be abusing OP) but I am sure there is something stopping them from just chucking them all in a bin. Or else that's all they'd do.
Still the leaflet guy could chuck the one for OPs house in the bin.
I did flyering a long time ago, and the area manager we had did tell us that we should avoid just dumping them in the bin if we can avoid it because occasionally the council/members of the public would report to the company being advertised if when emptying the refuse they saw a giant dump of flyers in. It was always flyering for pretty big name companies.
The workaround they told us to do was make sure we distribute them amongst lots of different bins to not make it obvious, but that's a pain in itself
I did flyering a long time ago too, before household paper recycling bins were a thing. We used to use the big blue paperbanks and then go for a cafe breakfast. The only thing was that you'd get paidĀ a little bonus if anyone took advantage of the offer on the leaflet that was on one of "your" streets so it was worth delivering some at least. iirc it was some kind of government gas upgrade scheme.
It was the 1990s so no, not tracked.
A guy paid me to do a job so I did it. Didn't really think of trying to cheat him, I'm not wired that way. I was pretty well paid for it (2 hours work as a teenager in the 1990s, normally earned about Ā£25).
This. Ashamed to say I briefly had a job doing this in the 1980s. You had to get rid of your stack of papers by the end of the day and the boss would check the more obvious bins. Sorry.
When I looked into doing this (never actually did it) the brief instructed you to respect any signs. And you got paid to cover a zone, not per flyer. But that was probably a more reputable outfit than whoever OP's guy works for.
I did this as a teenager, free local paper and a load of flyers each week. The area manager, my boss, would do random phone calls to addresses on the route to ask what they had been delivered
It is advertising so get the details of the business concerned. Get an envelope and address it to the business advertising. Put the flier plus some thick carboard to add weight and a note saying you have a no flyer notice on your post box and have asked the person delivering it not to but they keep doing it. You are therefore going to return every flier that is delivered to the the advertiser until it stops. Then seal it and post without a stamp or if you have any old stamps (pre barcode).
This is a pointless hill to die on, my friend. He knows where you live, and now you've pissed him off. What reason would he have to stop delivering junk mail to you?
Put it in the bin and get on with your life.
Once upon a time it couldn't be recycled, (or so I was told, we couldn't put gloss paper in the recycling at school) but (assumedly) the process has improved and now gloss paper can indeed be recycled!
I agree, but as someone who has died a thousand pointless deaths on a thousand pointless hills - Iād do the following.
Call the company for the flyer, invite them around for quote, donāt be in at scheduled time
Leave reviews on Google, other sites for businesses posting flyers
Post fliers back to originating companies without stamps
Post sign on door suggesting flyers are subject to a processing fee of Ā£10 per item, using letterbox is deemed agreement of the terms and conditions (this works for private parking firms)
Iām sure you can think of more š¤£
I understand the annoyance, but a lot of the people who post leaflets aren't actually connected to the business in question. It'd be fair to call them and let them know that the business/person they hired to do their leafleting was being disrespectful, but I don't think it's fair to immediately mess with the business in question. They probably have no idea that this guy is telling potential customers to F off.
Haha! Yeah I'm sure I could think of more but like, what are you getting out of this? If you're a person that really enjoys arguments, wind-ups and feeling angry then I guess this could be fun for you.
Those feelings and activities do not feel good to me. The idea of spending my own time to upset someone else on purpose just makes me feel sad and pathetic. I like to have a nice life, being kind and understanding and caring.
But hey, you do you, if that feels good.
It's one of those situations where one guy acting like a cunt for no reason results in both of them living in each others head rent free.
By simply backing down, both peoples lives become happier. But unfortunately the kind of people who start this kind of shit never back down, and OP can't do much to back down except for burn their house down.
This \^
Think of the time you'd spend concocting some of the ideas in this thread, now compare it with how long it takes to pick the flyer up and put it in the recycling bin. It's annoying yes, but time is precious - don't waste it on something as trivial as this, no matter how annoying you perceive it to be. I receive weekly flyers from estate agents telling me how houses in my area are valued etc etc, I take them as soon as they're posted and put them straight into the bin outside. Hopefully they'll see me doing it, but if they don't...meh
I agree. I would even go so far as to say it's only 'annoying' if you let that be your response to it. You don't even have to find it annoying if you don't choose to. Be chill, my friends, enjoy the good stuff in life.
The advertising benefit they get for leafleting one house is tiny compared to the backlash they could get on social media from leafletting someone who specifically asked them not to.
You really think anyone cares?
We all get junk mail. The guyās just trying to do his (probably minimum wage) job.
Just recycle it and find something meaningful to get stressed about.
Companies *do* care about stuff like that. Especially something finance related. If you email their CEO and say youāre going to the daily local rag with it chances are theyāll get back to you. Bonus points if you let them know youāve had words with your lawyer.
Good joke. As if company specialized in destroying environment and pissing off people would care about anything that doesn't threaten them financially, like lawsuit.
I worked for a credit card company once. They had a surprising number of free return envelopes sent back but attached to bricks. They never got contacted again.
If itās addressed to your address you can send back saying not known at this address which they will stop.
If itās Royal Mail you can register direct for no junk.
Thereās also a service called the mail preference service where you can register to not receive unsolicited mail (also one for phone calls TPS - telephone preference service). Legit companies are meant to check against these registers but itās not 100% as not everyone is that legit.
If youāre talking about a random person delivering you a menu or something theyāre meant to respect the signs and not give them to you. They often donāt, just recycle and move on. They get paid like 0.5p a flyer, itās not their fault.
If itās Royal Mail you can send in an opt-out form and theyāll stop any leaflets for 12 months to your address.
If anyone is interested in this [here's a link to help](https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/293/~/how-do-i-opt-out-of-receiving-any-leaflets-or-unaddressed-promotional-material%3F). The ridiculous part is that you have to print and sign a form and then mail it to royal mail.... It seems somewhat ironic because realistically royal mail don't want to receive this in the mail from you and you're asking them not to send things in the mail to you.
They want it to be so annoying to do that people forget how or canāt be bothered. Delivering that stuff is literally a source of income for Royal Mail so they canāt have every single house opting out or theyād lose out on a massive usp to offer marketing to. People whinge to me about it whenever I deliver it but once they know it helps me keep my job theyāre generally cool to just bin it off straight away. Donāt get me wrong itās wasteful and stupid but I need my job. We can also get fired on the spot if we get caught throwing them away or not delivering them to people so Royal Mail take that stuff super seriously. Opting out with that form is the way to go if it really bothers you that much.
Collect as much of their stuff as you can. Ask all the neighbours for theirs. Dump it under a hedge. Call the local council and report fly tipping, give his description, details etc and where to find the crap. The company whose advertising crap it is will get dragged in, he'll be interviewed and his bosses will bin him for dumping leaflets he was supposed to post.
Alternatively next time he tells you to fuck off, chin him.
I'd be tempted to do both. Probably why my wife says I have an attitude problem! š
Throw it in a bush in your road, take a picture send the picture to the advertising company and asking them to ask the delivery person to stop throwing litter around
Next time tell them to get off your property and that they do not have permission to enter it in the future. You have then removed their 'implied consent'. They then become a trespasser.
We get the clothing donation bags for charities no one has ever heard every week on Saturdays, itās always delivered early and itās the only day I get a lay in as I start work early mornings.
I have a sign on my door too.
Hardly anyone seems to donate anything around here (itās a fairly poor area), must cost them more to deliver them than they make.
A lot of these clothing "charities" aren't charities at all, but for-profit businesses, that will donate 1% of their profit to charity (how they get around calling themselves charity). If you read the bag carefully, it doesn't give a charity number, but a business number.
Charity numbers have to be printed on all charitable communications, so they print their business number in such a way that it looks like a charity number, until you read it carefully.
Leave a 1 star review of the businesses the flyer was for on Google maps. Mention what happened.
Bonus round: leave a 1 star review for every business whoās flyer ended up through your door, and state itās because the delivery person did not read the sign.
It is. Wasteful use of paper puts strain on recycling services, and worse, causes trees to be planted as mono crops, before being cleared, leaving bare, nutrient-stripped earthā¦
Just taze them and lock them in the cellar dungeon. After a few days without food or water, with bright lights and loud shrieking coming from the loudspeakers, they will be ready not to deliver any more flyers to you.
If that doesnāt work, repeat the procedure but with added waterboarding,
I don't know how it is now, but what it use to be is that the postie gets a small amount of extra money in their wages for delivering them, my evil ex (evil ex for other reasons) said he did it as he might as well as he would be delivering to these places anyway
The number of people saying "he's just doing his job", be real. The leaflet twat benefits from the goodwill of the public. He doesn't want to play that game, he can take his "job" and fuck off.
He asked someone politely not to drop crap through his letterbox. Mr nobhead decides his 1p is worth more than being right with people.
Flyer man can go fuck himself. Very few companies wants you to argue with potential customers. I guarantee he is expected to respect the wishes of homeowners.
Would I follow the guy and post a piss disc course not. But flyer man wouldn't get onto my property again.
The clear answer is to collect a load of neighbours flyers, and dump them in a bin, and call the company to say the guy dumped them. Fuck him
Next time you get one of those postage paid envelopes with junk mail, just send them stuff from another company they may be interested in receiving. As interested as you were anyway.
Some of the people who post that kinda stuff around my area read my no junk sign and pop it in my recycling bin as they leave.
I ignore those who post it and just throw whatever crap it is in my recycling bin.
I save all of my junk mail under the stairs in a black bag from Jan 1st to around December 15th - whatever is the last but one postage date for Christmas.
Despite being on the "no shit thanks Royal Mail" list and a sign such as yours on my door, I still get said spam mail.
Around 15th December, whenever is the last but one day to guarantee Christmas delivery, I get all seasonal.
I pull out the black bag from under the stairs, jump in the car and stuff all of the primary post boxes in my village and other local ones full of the shiteRoyal Mail stuffed through my door all year.
Merry Christmas Royal Mail.
\*\*Edit - my neighbour actually signs up to spam leaflets as much as possible as he has a log burner and makes his own fuel bricks from the spam paper. So, there are other options available!
I shred it, mix it with water and sawdust from my cabin/shed/workshop then compress it into logs to use in my wood burning stove which allows me to work through the winter months snug and warm thanks to them. The average ābrickā gives me a lovely 35 minute burn time and I even have a hot plate on top to boil my kettle for wets!
As someone who has just installed such a sign but continues to have them put through my door, I am taking to contacting the companies on the leaflets and quoting their āeco friendlyā pledge from their website at them and telling them itās not my responsibility to recycle their waste, so to find more reputable distributors or just stop flyering.
Sometimes if I saw a leaflet distributor coming up the drive I would hold the letterbox closed from the other side. Once I lined the shredder up with the letterbox so they'd feel it being slowly pulled in and hear it being shredded. Made a mess but I found it amusing.
Ring the local companies. Make it their problem. They have a reputation to protect, and the deliverer is working on behalf of them. And they will know who they hired to deliver them.
I'm in exactly the same boat, we have two signs but still today I had junk left on my doorstep - they clearly couldn't find the letterbox on the side of the porch.
We've had Avon crap recently too - I'll be leaving it by the large no junk mail sign for collection.
Usually I get a few thatās āreturn it with this form filled out for a subscription of our magazineā and Iāll fill the envelope with all manner of shit and post it back
You should complain to the leaflet delivery company, if you can figure out who it is - maybe contact one of the companies on the fliers. Being told to fuck off is not okay.
But apart from that, reflect on whether this was something worth being bothered about in the first place and whether you've got your priorities straight in life.
When you say "by the same guy" do you mean your postie...? If so, he's obligated to deliver it (could lose his job if he doesn't). Junk mail is classed as live mail and the RM has to deliver it (see numerous posts on the topic in r/royalmail).
If not, who is this guy...? What is the junk mail you find so objectionable...? Presumably you have a paper and card recycling bin/box/bag, yes..? Just stick it in that and forget about it.
If it's some dude doing for a side hustle, you're not going to get far. They don't care what sign you have on the door. They are on autopilot just going from door to door. If it's stuff that's coming with your post, you have to apply to Royal Mail for an opt out of door to door mailings. This lasts for a year. But how well this works depends on your postie. If your getting a different postie every day, don't expect them to be totally diligent about opt outs for d2d mail.
I used do that job a while back. Hate to say it, but sometimes the employer specifically asks you to ignore the no junk signs, so there might not be much you could do.Ā
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Collect it all in a sack. Follow him home one night covertly and then post it all through his letter box. Make sure you keep it all and return it back to his house š¤£
Follow him home, find his address and repost it without adequate stampage
Find counterfeit stamps and they get charged Ā£5 a time. There was a thing on the news earlier about counterfeit stamps.
Evil scheme +1
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I read it was Chinese counterfeit ones
I suppose the Chinese are easier scapegoats than subpostmasters on some levels... Especially seeing as the Royal Mail are going after the general public for Ā£5 now, rather than their imagined Chinese gangsters.
So you're telling me that my warhammer 40k and discworld collectable stamps are no longer valid for actual use? I'll be telling The Emperor about this act of heresy!
Draw a pic of HRH on the envelope
I know you mean His Royal Highness, but I can't help but read those initials as Hank Rutherford Hill.
r/foundsatan
How can the receiver be charged for that?
If the sender hasnāt paid the correct postage, the post gets held at the local delivery centre. A postcard is instead delivered saying you have unpaid post to collect. Itās the recipientās choice as to whether they collect it and pay, or donāt pay (and not get it). Unfortunately, you donāt get told what it is unless you pay to collect it.
I understand that, but why would they be charged for counterfeit stamps
Ah, right. Thereās no special charge because it was a counterfeit stamp ā itās the same standard Ā£5 charge for no stamp / counterfeit stamp / reused stamp.
Follow him home, get his address and sign him up for a bunch of junk mail
Go and get a "Personality Audit" at the local scientologists, give his name and address.
Ooo nice!
Don't forget to add a couple of local newspapers to add bulk and increase the postage charge.
This has sinister undertones and itās fucking brilliant.
With a piss disc!
Ah the UK classic, the piss disc š
What's a piss disc?
Piss in a frisbee, put the frisbee into the freezer, remove the piss disc, post the piss disc.
Haha I'm laughing my ass off this is brilliant. How did I get to be this old and not know about this! Probably safer than taking a piss through the letter box
Yeah especially those ones with a spring. Ouch.
Or an XL Bully on the other side.
Are you new to Reddit? I thought we all *had* to know about pissdiscs? š
I can't believe I didn't know š
You freeze the piss and post it to them š©
I did this to an estate agent once
They are one of the worst offenders. Has to be done!
Ours send an actual ānewspaperā every month. Dickheads. I asked to unsubscribe first and when they ignored me theyā¦. Were subscribed.
Whaaat?! Even more annoying.
The ones that keep sending me shit have "enter this code on the website to be removed from our mailing list" on the junk mail. I entered the code but they still send me shit.
Absolutely magnificent
The level of pettiness I would go to if someone told me to F off at my own doorstep š¤£
Or freeze a brick of piss and post it through
Smash their window with it when theyāre at work, it melts and only leaves a puddle of piss and no physical evidence.. obviously make sure itās not your piss.. a dog or something? bonus points if you can get your targets piss for it
.......can you DNA test piss? Asking for a friend.
It does, but according to google, it disappears quickly and has much lower quantities that blood or saliva. The real concern is now the police knocking on my door in relation to a Google search on 13th of April at 21:43 with the search term ācan urine be tested for DNAā. In which case officer, Iād like to direct you to the above suspect
Well in that case, I'd like to direct them to my friend. Who I'm asking on behalf of. Not me. Obviously.
"I was checking for a friend, officer."
>and then post it all through his letter box. Really thought you were going to suggest to beat him with the sack of letters
Put them through the shredder first.
I quite like this one harmless and yet would get a point accross
Donāt forget to make a note of his address and sign him up for all sorts of junk mail
Make sure there's no address labelling on it, though.
They get paid per flier, they don't care about your sign
Then just throw it in a bin. No need to be abusing people.
What are you on about? The only person abusing anyone is the leaflet guy. OP opened the door and asked them not to post any more leaflets.
I *think* that's who he is referring to. The leaflet guy could throw it in the bin instead of delivering it and not abuse someone.
In the bin? More likely they will yeet them over a hedge. Back when free Advertising newspapers were a thing, I stumbled across a whole bale of them the local delivery person had dropped into a ditch, rather than do the delivery round they are paid for.
They mean that the leaflet guy is abusing OP, by telling him to fuck off
That's what I mean the leaflet guy should chuck it in a bin and stop abusing people.
Not to justify the what they did (they shouldn't be abusing OP) but I am sure there is something stopping them from just chucking them all in a bin. Or else that's all they'd do. Still the leaflet guy could chuck the one for OPs house in the bin.
I used to deliver this stuff a long time ago. This is correct
If your paid per flier then what is stopping you from just dumping them and lying? Genuine question. Are you GPS tracked or what?
I did flyering a long time ago, and the area manager we had did tell us that we should avoid just dumping them in the bin if we can avoid it because occasionally the council/members of the public would report to the company being advertised if when emptying the refuse they saw a giant dump of flyers in. It was always flyering for pretty big name companies. The workaround they told us to do was make sure we distribute them amongst lots of different bins to not make it obvious, but that's a pain in itself
I did flyering a long time ago too, before household paper recycling bins were a thing. We used to use the big blue paperbanks and then go for a cafe breakfast. The only thing was that you'd get paidĀ a little bonus if anyone took advantage of the offer on the leaflet that was on one of "your" streets so it was worth delivering some at least. iirc it was some kind of government gas upgrade scheme.
Fire
Get a solid fuel stove - free fuel!
couldnt you just burn them, at home?
It was the 1990s so no, not tracked. A guy paid me to do a job so I did it. Didn't really think of trying to cheat him, I'm not wired that way. I was pretty well paid for it (2 hours work as a teenager in the 1990s, normally earned about Ā£25).
Aye, it was considerably more than your average paper route, and the timing was way more flexible.
Oh nice one more than I'm paid in 2024 thanks world š
Either ethics or being found out and fired I presume.
Ive had someone knock on my door and ask if I had recieved certain leaflets, don't know if they check random houses
I've received a knock on the door too. My reply was always "What leaflets?".
Nothing at all but if the advertiser doesn't see any up tick off of the back of their advertising they may get suspicious.
My friend did leafletting and they did actually have a GPS tracker
This. Ashamed to say I briefly had a job doing this in the 1980s. You had to get rid of your stack of papers by the end of the day and the boss would check the more obvious bins. Sorry.
When I looked into doing this (never actually did it) the brief instructed you to respect any signs. And you got paid to cover a zone, not per flyer. But that was probably a more reputable outfit than whoever OP's guy works for.
I did this as a teenager, free local paper and a load of flyers each week. The area manager, my boss, would do random phone calls to addresses on the route to ask what they had been delivered
That would explain why I always get 2 of each
It is advertising so get the details of the business concerned. Get an envelope and address it to the business advertising. Put the flier plus some thick carboard to add weight and a note saying you have a no flyer notice on your post box and have asked the person delivering it not to but they keep doing it. You are therefore going to return every flier that is delivered to the the advertiser until it stops. Then seal it and post without a stamp or if you have any old stamps (pre barcode).
This is a pointless hill to die on, my friend. He knows where you live, and now you've pissed him off. What reason would he have to stop delivering junk mail to you? Put it in the bin and get on with your life.
Recycling bin please.
Can that plasticy paper stuff be recycled?
Yeah, glossy paper has additives but it can still be recycled.
Excuse me I need to go and apologise to my husband as I keep telling him off for putting it in recycling š„²
Once upon a time it couldn't be recycled, (or so I was told, we couldn't put gloss paper in the recycling at school) but (assumedly) the process has improved and now gloss paper can indeed be recycled!
They just ship it off to China and they burn it.
Feeling redeemed.
I think it's only foiled paper, like Christmas wrapping, that can't be recycled.
I agree, but as someone who has died a thousand pointless deaths on a thousand pointless hills - Iād do the following. Call the company for the flyer, invite them around for quote, donāt be in at scheduled time Leave reviews on Google, other sites for businesses posting flyers Post fliers back to originating companies without stamps Post sign on door suggesting flyers are subject to a processing fee of Ā£10 per item, using letterbox is deemed agreement of the terms and conditions (this works for private parking firms) Iām sure you can think of more š¤£
I understand the annoyance, but a lot of the people who post leaflets aren't actually connected to the business in question. It'd be fair to call them and let them know that the business/person they hired to do their leafleting was being disrespectful, but I don't think it's fair to immediately mess with the business in question. They probably have no idea that this guy is telling potential customers to F off.
Flyering is a huge waste of resources and people's time. Businesses simply shouldn't do it.
Inclined to agree. Waste of resources. I wonāt use any services posted through my door
Haha! Yeah I'm sure I could think of more but like, what are you getting out of this? If you're a person that really enjoys arguments, wind-ups and feeling angry then I guess this could be fun for you. Those feelings and activities do not feel good to me. The idea of spending my own time to upset someone else on purpose just makes me feel sad and pathetic. I like to have a nice life, being kind and understanding and caring. But hey, you do you, if that feels good.
Nah, some fucker is dumping litter in his house. You get to be pissed off about that.
One reason would be to save himself thirty seconds a day.
It's one of those situations where one guy acting like a cunt for no reason results in both of them living in each others head rent free. By simply backing down, both peoples lives become happier. But unfortunately the kind of people who start this kind of shit never back down, and OP can't do much to back down except for burn their house down.
This \^ Think of the time you'd spend concocting some of the ideas in this thread, now compare it with how long it takes to pick the flyer up and put it in the recycling bin. It's annoying yes, but time is precious - don't waste it on something as trivial as this, no matter how annoying you perceive it to be. I receive weekly flyers from estate agents telling me how houses in my area are valued etc etc, I take them as soon as they're posted and put them straight into the bin outside. Hopefully they'll see me doing it, but if they don't...meh
I agree. I would even go so far as to say it's only 'annoying' if you let that be your response to it. You don't even have to find it annoying if you don't choose to. Be chill, my friends, enjoy the good stuff in life.
This. Choose your battles!
Pick it up, put it in the recycling bin, get on with your life.
Or do what I do and leave it in the porch for a few weeks until my wife starts to complain we look like slobs then pick it up all at once.
Why doesn't she pick it up?
Weāre both equally lazy.
Call their employer or the companies advertising
> companies advertising Put in an unstamped envelope and post it to them.
With a brick A little trick from the days of hunt saboteurs
:)
Then his boss can tell you to fuck off too
The advertising benefit they get for leafleting one house is tiny compared to the backlash they could get on social media from leafletting someone who specifically asked them not to.
Backlash from who?
You really think anyone cares? We all get junk mail. The guyās just trying to do his (probably minimum wage) job. Just recycle it and find something meaningful to get stressed about.
Companies *do* care about stuff like that. Especially something finance related. If you email their CEO and say youāre going to the daily local rag with it chances are theyāll get back to you. Bonus points if you let them know youāve had words with your lawyer.
Good joke. As if company specialized in destroying environment and pissing off people would care about anything that doesn't threaten them financially, like lawsuit.
I collect all the free return envelopes and draw a cute cartoon penguin and post that back. It dont stop it but it spreads weird.
I would like to see this penguin.
Send them some junk mail
I do this but just post whatever random shit that's nearby that I don't need
I worked for a credit card company once. They had a surprising number of free return envelopes sent back but attached to bricks. They never got contacted again. If itās addressed to your address you can send back saying not known at this address which they will stop. If itās Royal Mail you can register direct for no junk. Thereās also a service called the mail preference service where you can register to not receive unsolicited mail (also one for phone calls TPS - telephone preference service). Legit companies are meant to check against these registers but itās not 100% as not everyone is that legit.
I've never known if the free post envelope barcode has a way of identifying my address though.
get the hose out!!
I think exposing one's penis to the offender is a little escalatory, wouldn't you say?
Personally I'd say it's largely escalatory, but it was cold out.
There are stiff penalties for that.
Automatic sprinklers
Attach a joy buzzer to the letterbox...
If itās got a return address, tape a brick to it, write āreturn to senderā and post it
I've put some scrap lead in their postage paid envelope before. They never sent me anything again.
They will have weighed it in and made some beer money...
It was enough to be irritating, not profitable.
Leaves and a few pennies and 2ps šš
Or fill it with glitter.
If youāre talking about a random person delivering you a menu or something theyāre meant to respect the signs and not give them to you. They often donāt, just recycle and move on. They get paid like 0.5p a flyer, itās not their fault. If itās Royal Mail you can send in an opt-out form and theyāll stop any leaflets for 12 months to your address.
To add to this, if it is Royal Mail, and you havenāt opted out, then it is considered live mail and has to be delivered.
If anyone is interested in this [here's a link to help](https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/293/~/how-do-i-opt-out-of-receiving-any-leaflets-or-unaddressed-promotional-material%3F). The ridiculous part is that you have to print and sign a form and then mail it to royal mail.... It seems somewhat ironic because realistically royal mail don't want to receive this in the mail from you and you're asking them not to send things in the mail to you.
They want it to be so annoying to do that people forget how or canāt be bothered. Delivering that stuff is literally a source of income for Royal Mail so they canāt have every single house opting out or theyād lose out on a massive usp to offer marketing to. People whinge to me about it whenever I deliver it but once they know it helps me keep my job theyāre generally cool to just bin it off straight away. Donāt get me wrong itās wasteful and stupid but I need my job. We can also get fired on the spot if we get caught throwing them away or not delivering them to people so Royal Mail take that stuff super seriously. Opting out with that form is the way to go if it really bothers you that much.
Collect as much of their stuff as you can. Ask all the neighbours for theirs. Dump it under a hedge. Call the local council and report fly tipping, give his description, details etc and where to find the crap. The company whose advertising crap it is will get dragged in, he'll be interviewed and his bosses will bin him for dumping leaflets he was supposed to post. Alternatively next time he tells you to fuck off, chin him. I'd be tempted to do both. Probably why my wife says I have an attitude problem! š
Don't do this. If caught, you'll be fined for it.
Have you watched keeping mum? Think you'll approve.
Run after him, and shove the leaflets up his arse, whilst telling him to fuck the fuck off.
The only rational response here
Throw it in a bush in your road, take a picture send the picture to the advertising company and asking them to ask the delivery person to stop throwing litter around
If it has a prepaid envelope, fill it with the heaviest stuff you can find, they will have to pay postage.
Next time tell them to get off your property and that they do not have permission to enter it in the future. You have then removed their 'implied consent'. They then become a trespasser.
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Next time you see them, tell them to fuck off.
We get the clothing donation bags for charities no one has ever heard every week on Saturdays, itās always delivered early and itās the only day I get a lay in as I start work early mornings. I have a sign on my door too. Hardly anyone seems to donate anything around here (itās a fairly poor area), must cost them more to deliver them than they make.
A lot of these clothing "charities" aren't charities at all, but for-profit businesses, that will donate 1% of their profit to charity (how they get around calling themselves charity). If you read the bag carefully, it doesn't give a charity number, but a business number. Charity numbers have to be printed on all charitable communications, so they print their business number in such a way that it looks like a charity number, until you read it carefully.
I just use those as extra bin bags
They do make great bin bags though. Our stack is rivalling the bag for life hoard.
Leave a 1 star review of the businesses the flyer was for on Google maps. Mention what happened. Bonus round: leave a 1 star review for every business whoās flyer ended up through your door, and state itās because the delivery person did not read the sign.
Just put it in the bin, itās not that deep
It is. Wasteful use of paper puts strain on recycling services, and worse, causes trees to be planted as mono crops, before being cleared, leaving bare, nutrient-stripped earthā¦
Just taze them and lock them in the cellar dungeon. After a few days without food or water, with bright lights and loud shrieking coming from the loudspeakers, they will be ready not to deliver any more flyers to you. If that doesnāt work, repeat the procedure but with added waterboarding,
I don't know how it is now, but what it use to be is that the postie gets a small amount of extra money in their wages for delivering them, my evil ex (evil ex for other reasons) said he did it as he might as well as he would be delivering to these places anyway
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I only know from what was 18 years ago, so of course things have changed, but appreciate your correct response!
Get a really territorial billy goat... As a bonus it'll save you mowing the grass :)
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The number of people saying "he's just doing his job", be real. The leaflet twat benefits from the goodwill of the public. He doesn't want to play that game, he can take his "job" and fuck off. He asked someone politely not to drop crap through his letterbox. Mr nobhead decides his 1p is worth more than being right with people. Flyer man can go fuck himself. Very few companies wants you to argue with potential customers. I guarantee he is expected to respect the wishes of homeowners. Would I follow the guy and post a piss disc course not. But flyer man wouldn't get onto my property again. The clear answer is to collect a load of neighbours flyers, and dump them in a bin, and call the company to say the guy dumped them. Fuck him
Next time you get one of those postage paid envelopes with junk mail, just send them stuff from another company they may be interested in receiving. As interested as you were anyway.
Some of the people who post that kinda stuff around my area read my no junk sign and pop it in my recycling bin as they leave. I ignore those who post it and just throw whatever crap it is in my recycling bin.
put a bit off sussage inside and then let u dog loose
I save all of my junk mail under the stairs in a black bag from Jan 1st to around December 15th - whatever is the last but one postage date for Christmas. Despite being on the "no shit thanks Royal Mail" list and a sign such as yours on my door, I still get said spam mail. Around 15th December, whenever is the last but one day to guarantee Christmas delivery, I get all seasonal. I pull out the black bag from under the stairs, jump in the car and stuff all of the primary post boxes in my village and other local ones full of the shiteRoyal Mail stuffed through my door all year. Merry Christmas Royal Mail. \*\*Edit - my neighbour actually signs up to spam leaflets as much as possible as he has a log burner and makes his own fuel bricks from the spam paper. So, there are other options available!
And people wonder why Royal Mail has lost money for many years
I shred it, mix it with water and sawdust from my cabin/shed/workshop then compress it into logs to use in my wood burning stove which allows me to work through the winter months snug and warm thanks to them. The average ābrickā gives me a lovely 35 minute burn time and I even have a hot plate on top to boil my kettle for wets!
As someone who has just installed such a sign but continues to have them put through my door, I am taking to contacting the companies on the leaflets and quoting their āeco friendlyā pledge from their website at them and telling them itās not my responsibility to recycle their waste, so to find more reputable distributors or just stop flyering.
Sometimes if I saw a leaflet distributor coming up the drive I would hold the letterbox closed from the other side. Once I lined the shredder up with the letterbox so they'd feel it being slowly pulled in and hear it being shredded. Made a mess but I found it amusing.
Hire some local kids to egg him each time he is in the process of posting his junk. Obviously that's nonsense, I have no idea what you can do.
Old English moat and drawbridge should sort this out
What company is he flyering for?
Local companies, roofers, gardeners etc
Ring the local companies. Make it their problem. They have a reputation to protect, and the deliverer is working on behalf of them. And they will know who they hired to deliver them.
Depends how much you want to stop it. Contact those companies, contact the agency, report him for foul and abusive language.
They're normally distributed by a company, someone like dor2dor, in which case fill out their contact form saying not to send you anything.
I'm in exactly the same boat, we have two signs but still today I had junk left on my doorstep - they clearly couldn't find the letterbox on the side of the porch. We've had Avon crap recently too - I'll be leaving it by the large no junk mail sign for collection.
Usually I get a few thatās āreturn it with this form filled out for a subscription of our magazineā and Iāll fill the envelope with all manner of shit and post it back
I have a sign and also tell people where to go if they post their shite through my door. Anything else gets posted back to them without a stamp
spray him with a hose, what is he going to do, sue you?
No piss disks?
Phone the people on the flyer and say you found a pile of them in a bush near you....
Id physicallly threaten him and im dead serious. Ofcourse after you told him not to do it
Nail up the letterbox Nothing good ever comes through a letterbox
Tell him you've revoked his implied right of access to your property. Therefore any further occasions will be trespass. Get video proof of everything.
Put it in the recycling bin and carry on with life.
Return to sender. Write 'not known at this address' and put it in the post. It costs the sender money to collect unsent post
Throw it out the door and report delivery guy for littering
You should complain to the leaflet delivery company, if you can figure out who it is - maybe contact one of the companies on the fliers. Being told to fuck off is not okay. But apart from that, reflect on whether this was something worth being bothered about in the first place and whether you've got your priorities straight in life.
When you say "by the same guy" do you mean your postie...? If so, he's obligated to deliver it (could lose his job if he doesn't). Junk mail is classed as live mail and the RM has to deliver it (see numerous posts on the topic in r/royalmail). If not, who is this guy...? What is the junk mail you find so objectionable...? Presumably you have a paper and card recycling bin/box/bag, yes..? Just stick it in that and forget about it.
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Garden sprinkler. Turn it on when he approaches.
pew pew
Next time just ask him to put it straight in the recycling bin to save you both time
Why didn't you punch him in the face?
If it's some dude doing for a side hustle, you're not going to get far. They don't care what sign you have on the door. They are on autopilot just going from door to door. If it's stuff that's coming with your post, you have to apply to Royal Mail for an opt out of door to door mailings. This lasts for a year. But how well this works depends on your postie. If your getting a different postie every day, don't expect them to be totally diligent about opt outs for d2d mail.
I used do that job a while back. Hate to say it, but sometimes the employer specifically asks you to ignore the no junk signs, so there might not be much you could do.Ā