Does your letter box fill up with junk mail?

Bretrick

Bretrick

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Location
Perth Western Australia
90% of the junk mail I receive is from Real Estate agents.
It all goes straight into the bin.
How to stop this proliferation of waste?
Junk mail in Australia alone uses 240,000 tonnes of paper ever year.
The water needed to produce this amount of paper will fill 8,000 Olympic size swimming pools.
Sure, one might say, display a "No Junk Mail" sign. This does not work because the majority of people do not do that.
I think I will write to the environment minister to express my views.

I remember years ago there was a conversation about reducing packaging of all sorts. That went nowhere. Since then I estimate packaging has quadrupled, especially the hard plastic uses in supermarkets, for delicate cakes and the like.
Seems we are not really serious about stopping the degradation of the environment. Plus we come up against complacent governments who dither, saying to implement such practices would cost too much, take too long, and they would have to go up against some very powerful lobbyists.
Saddens me that corporations have so much power over us all.
 

Every week at least 3 letters from various charities asking for donations. I usually would mark the envelope "Return to Sender" and it was back again the following week. Now I just tear them up and put it in the trash bin.
 
oscash said:
Every week at least 3 letters from various charities asking for donations. I usually would mark the envelope "Return to Sender" and it was back again the following week. Now I just tear them up and put it in the trash bin.
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You can make an official complaint to the Distribution Standards Board in your area. You can go to their social media site and make a complaint.
Complain to the company directly.
 

When you make a purchase using a card and when you enjoy that discount, offered by the store for using their loyalty card, you and your purchase have been recorded on a profile. Your spending activity, along with millions of others, is so valuable that it more than negates the discount that you received when you had the loyalty card scanned.

Your profile is then bought and sold so that you can be targeted for future spending. It's that buying and selling of personal information that is so insidious. You can get around though, forget the plastic and remember when cash was king. Mind you, I have been seeing a trend towards cash not being accepted, it's only a small number of retailers but, watch this space. Then watch your junk mail, whether that be a hard copy or email, it will become a huge industry.

How to build a customer profile for effective marketing.
 
horseless carriage said:
When you make a purchase using a card and when you enjoy that discount, offered by the store for using their loyalty card, you and your purchase have been recorded on a profile. Your spending activity, along with millions of others, is so valuable that it more than negates the discount that you received when you had the loyalty card scanned.

Your profile is then bought and sold so that you can be targeted for future spending. It's that buying and selling of personal information that is so insidious. You can get around though, forget the plastic and remember when cash was king. Mind you, I have been seeing a trend towards cash not being accepted, it's only a small number of retailers but, watch this space. Then watch your junk mail, whether that be a hard copy or email, it will become a huge industry.

How to build a customer profile for effective marketing.
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Luckily I have no loyalty cards and as such am not subject to those cards terms and conditions. I only ever receive unsolicited junk mail.
 
To be honest, the only thing keeping most snail mail post offices from folding is junk mail. We are in an era when snail mail like the pony express is ending.
Really which would you rather not post here, your mailing address, or your email address?
 
No. I get no junk mail. Sometimes I look in my junk mail and find emails there. I guess my email system is working well
 

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