Permalink Submitted by anon on 14th December 2015.
My postman knocked the door to confirm the form had come from the address.
Oh, hang on, no they didn't.
Royal Mail's opt-out didn't work for me after they confirmed to me this address was opted out. Five times junk mail arrived before enough complaining and escalating wasted so much of their time that they decided the money from the ads wasn't worth running the opt-out as anything more than a PR scam or public image manipulation thing. After lots of denial from RM and claims the spam I was complaining about might not have been from them, and abuses of my personal data by promoting the services of other companies (playing the usual advertiser card of hiding behind "we were only being useful" (AKA the ace of BS)) they did acknowledge that they had failed. Though RM consistently held the postal staff on the street responsible, like it is those staff that make policy and create unwanted services like spamming for businesses. I wonder if the postal union knows management put the public-facing staff in such poor light as a matter of routine?
IMHO the idea behind never stopping spamming is to never ever let us step away from mindless consumerism. Spending for spending's sake. And making sure corporate half-truths and lies are in our faces is essential, and if not overt ads then just brands and logos and colours. And all the things psychologists say about the human mind that be skewed to manipulate our opinions.
One thing though, because RM provides a freepost address for their junk opt-out I use it send on any junk that comes though the door. Menus, phonebooks, god stuff. All as unwanted as what RM dump, but as RM use their wealth and position to force their opinion on the public I will directly abuse their provision of a freepost address. I recommend others do this, no matter the overall effects it will make their scheme cost in the short term. And threatened profits in the next Q make CEOs cry.
My postman knocked the door to confirm the form had come from the address.
Oh, hang on, no they didn't.
Royal Mail's opt-out didn't work for me after they confirmed to me this address was opted out. Five times junk mail arrived before enough complaining and escalating wasted so much of their time that they decided the money from the ads wasn't worth running the opt-out as anything more than a PR scam or public image manipulation thing. After lots of denial from RM and claims the spam I was complaining about might not have been from them, and abuses of my personal data by promoting the services of other companies (playing the usual advertiser card of hiding behind "we were only being useful" (AKA the ace of BS)) they did acknowledge that they had failed. Though RM consistently held the postal staff on the street responsible, like it is those staff that make policy and create unwanted services like spamming for businesses. I wonder if the postal union knows management put the public-facing staff in such poor light as a matter of routine?
IMHO the idea behind never stopping spamming is to never ever let us step away from mindless consumerism. Spending for spending's sake. And making sure corporate half-truths and lies are in our faces is essential, and if not overt ads then just brands and logos and colours. And all the things psychologists say about the human mind that be skewed to manipulate our opinions.
One thing though, because RM provides a freepost address for their junk opt-out I use it send on any junk that comes though the door. Menus, phonebooks, god stuff. All as unwanted as what RM dump, but as RM use their wealth and position to force their opinion on the public I will directly abuse their provision of a freepost address. I recommend others do this, no matter the overall effects it will make their scheme cost in the short term. And threatened profits in the next Q make CEOs cry.