How to stop junk mail being delivered to my letter box

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#279516 20-Oct-2020 15:59

I have started receiving junk mail again in my letter box when it is clearly labelled: No Junk Mail and Addressed Mail Only.

It has been good for about 4 years since I first put on my labels.

According to CAB I should email Reach Media (no help) and Ovato (still waiting for a response)

I have tried a direct email approach with New World and they say they are looking into it.

Very difficult to find contact details with the advertisers.

The Bottle-O was clear to understand on the phone intially but as the complaint progressed an overseas accent developed and became impossible to understand.

So far I have received flyers from:

New World groceries

New World alcohol

Super Cheap Auto

Hammer Hardware (Mitre10)

EIT

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The Bottle-O

The Baby Factory

Pizza Hutt.

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#2589415 20-Oct-2020 16:06

i found having a chat to the delivery guy was easiest, we too have a no junk mail sticker. When i spoke with him he mentioned being so distant in his headphones he doesn't even notice the stickers but was happy to stop posting them.

Might be the quickest way rather than each company?

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#2589417 20-Oct-2020 16:10

We get it here all the time too, i kinda just go if they really want to waste their money on it. oh well.

my partner however, she takes an avid dislike to it. Between emailing, Calling and hunting down the postie, Yet to see an end to it - certainly has reduced though.

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#2589418 20-Oct-2020 16:10

hsvhel:

i found having a chat to the delivery guy was easiest, we too have a no junk mail sticker. When i spoke with him he mentioned being so distant in his headphones he doesn't even notice the stickers but was happy to stop posting them.

Might be the quickest way rather than each company?

How do you catch them?

We have not been home when the flyers were delivered.

Also we can't see the letter box from the house.

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#2589420 20-Oct-2020 16:18

hio77:

We get it here all the time too, i kinda just go if they really want to waste their money on it. oh well.

my partner however, she takes an avid dislike to it. Between emailing, Calling and hunting down the postie, Yet to see an end to it - certainly has reduced though.

There are a few problems....

There is no room in my letter box for regular mail that we want.

I don't want the flyers sticking out of my letter box when we go away for a few days.... It is a security issue.... because it is an indication that no one is home to clear the flyers...

It is not the postie that delivers the flyers... so far weekends and non postie days....

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#2589423 20-Oct-2020 16:22

I had no SPAM / No Junk mail all over a letter box of mine and it was still delivered so I called the companies to come and collect it

The companies quickly call the delivery company of the junk mail and it stopped

The companies can also be fined for this!

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#2589425 20-Oct-2020 16:25

I collect them to wrap up rubbish also to put on the garden under mulch to suppress weeds or add to planters underneath the mix. Less stress and gleefully enjoying that I’m burying their intrusion.

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#2589444 20-Oct-2020 16:52

Gordy7:

hsvhel:

i found having a chat to the delivery guy was easiest, we too have a no junk mail sticker. When i spoke with him he mentioned being so distant in his headphones he doesn't even notice the stickers but was happy to stop posting them.

Might be the quickest way rather than each company?

How do you catch them?

We have not been home when the flyers were delivered.

Also we can't see the letter box from the house.

Presents an issue i suppose, im pretty road front and the delivery guy cruised past when i was washing the car one afternoon

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#2589445 20-Oct-2020 16:55

Eva888: I collect them to wrap up rubbish also to put on the garden under mulch to suppress weeds or add to planters underneath the mix. Less stress and gleefully enjoying that I’m burying their intrusion.

I might train some worms and snails to clear junk from my letter box 😀

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#2589449 20-Oct-2020 17:16

by the junk mail mentioned it is Ovato who have the contract and they do follow through as my son, who does a run, gets complaint forms all the time and it is usually from people who dont get the free paper , which is now classed as junk mail, because they have junk mail on their mail boxes. it is in the contract they get given that they cant fill up the mail box . if it is full they are meant to ignore it. But you have to remember they get paid nothing for the work they do . if my son only has one pamphlet to deliver he gets paid from $1.20 to $2.49 and it will take him nearly an hour to 2 hours of his time to deliver it.

Common sense is not as common as you think.

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#2589453 20-Oct-2020 17:40

I have sent 2 emails with diffrent lists of flyers to residentialenquiries@ovato.co.nz and have had no feedback.

I have just found another possible contact and have sent off an enquiry...

enquiries@pmpdistribution.co.nz

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#2589461 20-Oct-2020 18:00

vexxxboy:
But you have to remember they get paid nothing for the work they do . if my son only has one pamphlet to deliver he gets paid from $1.20 to $2.49 and it will take him nearly an hour to 2 hours of his time to deliver it.

Probably at his age I was spending an hour cutting my cousin's lawns for 2/6. That translates to about $9.70 today.

I wonder what the adult rate is? The delivery guy here can't be making much, he never gets out of his car if he can get close enough to reach the box through his window.

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#2589484 20-Oct-2020 18:54

vexxxboy: the free paper , which is now classed as junk mail

I only just realised that I'm no longer getting the free paper! (which was going straight in the recycling anyway).

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#2589518 20-Oct-2020 20:32

I like the free paper (Kapiti-News). I never read it, I just save them all up for starting my fire during colder months. Junk mail doesn't get read either it goes straight in the recycling. Like Gordy7 I'm never around when the stuff gets delivered and am set well back from the road so can't see my letterbox either. But even given that, I don't think I'd bother speaking with the delivery person anyway. As has been pointed out the kids who actually stuff the letterboxes get paid bugger-all so having more to deliver helps with their pay packets. Or if it doesn't, it helps with their exercise so it's a win either way :-)

Like many other people they're just trying to get ahead so I see zero point in stressing about it. As for junk mail being delivered whilst the family is away for a period of time, that's one of the myriad reasons we maintain good relations with practically everyone in our street, but especially our direct neighbours.

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#2589684 21-Oct-2020 10:40

We had a PO Box for years and very rarely got junk in that because the people who put the mail in the boxes just filtered it out!

Since moving we have a normal postbox and rural delivery. The first day or so we were here, the RD chap came up the hill (the boxes are at the bottom) to introduce himself, give me his contact details, explain what and how it all worked etc etc. so we just let him know we were fine with the local rag but no pointless supermarket flyers etc.

I cannot believe they even still print that rubbish in the 21st century. All that effort just to tell us that broccoli has 50c off? Pfft.

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#2589688 21-Oct-2020 10:58

Geektastic:
We had a PO Box for years and very rarely got junk in that because the people who put the mail in the boxes just filtered it out!

Since moving we have a normal postbox and rural delivery. The first day or so we were here, the RD chap came up the hill (the boxes are at the bottom) to introduce himself, give me his contact details, explain what and how it all worked etc etc. so we just let him know we were fine with the local rag but no pointless supermarket flyers etc.

I cannot believe they even still print that rubbish in the 21st century. All that effort just to tell us that broccoli has 50c off? Pfft.

having moved out urban, I do miss rural delivery.

The guy that services the family lands is great!

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