Permalink Submitted by Junk Buster on 14th December 2015.
Freepost Royal Mail Customer Services
I've been running this website for nearly a decade and I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that returning junk mail to senders / offenders is the only way to get the likes of Royal Mail to acknowledge that there should be a little bit of a balance between the rights of advertisers and the rights of the industry's 'targets' (or, worse, 'consumers').
Perhaps a more effective way to return junk mail is by returning it to the senders (in an unstamped envelope). Advertisers worry about their 'brand' being association with junk mail. A couple of months ago Virgin Media – Royal Mail's biggest customer – took the decision to stop its door-drop campaigns for precisely this reason. Sending stuff back to Royal Mail is fine, of course, but the senders will be unaware that their adverts were delivered to people who have gone through the trouble of opting out of receiving such stuff.
Freepost Royal Mail Customer Services
I've been running this website for nearly a decade and I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that returning junk mail to senders / offenders is the only way to get the likes of Royal Mail to acknowledge that there should be a little bit of a balance between the rights of advertisers and the rights of the industry's 'targets' (or, worse, 'consumers').
Perhaps a more effective way to return junk mail is by returning it to the senders (in an unstamped envelope). Advertisers worry about their 'brand' being association with junk mail. A couple of months ago Virgin Media – Royal Mail's biggest customer – took the decision to stop its door-drop campaigns for precisely this reason. Sending stuff back to Royal Mail is fine, of course, but the senders will be unaware that their adverts were delivered to people who have gone through the trouble of opting out of receiving such stuff.
As an aside, I'm hoping to start working on a return to sender website early next year.