A resident of Christchurch, New Zealand, has collected a year's worth of junk mail. The stack he collected last year is 1.7m high and weighs 70kg.

People are more unhappy with postal services than with banks, broadband providers and mobile phone companies, according to a Which? survey.

Research by the Office of Fair Trading has revealed that 3.2 million adults in the UK fall victim to a scam every year. Scams cost the UK consumer an estimated £3.5 billion per annum.

Most people find spam emails more intrusive and irritating than junk mail landing on their doormat, according to Canadian research.

Abolishing the limit on leaflets distributed by Royal Mail would hurt both the environment and council tax payers, according to the Local Government Association.

It's official: banks and credit card firms are Britain's worst junk mail offenders. Together they are responsible for more than a third of the 3.4 billion pieces of addressed junk mail posted through our letterbox every year.

Norman Baker, Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes, has urged Government to take action to reduce the amount of junk mail posted through British letterboxes.