Am i the only one who is getting annoyed by the endless takeaway menus that are being posted through letterboxes??? . We had one popped through our door at 9.20am on sunday morning! up at sunny St Rads we are getting a silly amount on a weekly basis. I understand there is a recession on and businesses are fighting to make ends meat but really ive had enough of being pestered in my own home .
We get loads up here in Kearsney too.
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You get used to the Indian Chinese Pizza Kebab etc leaflets but I was surprised to get one from a long established fish and chip shop recently. There must be a printer doing the rounds of the take aways and doing a good job in getting work.
I don't mind these so much, at least you can chuck them into the recycling without further thought. It is all the unrequested stuff you get that has your name and address on it 3 times in different places, so it takes you all your time to tear them off, then it takes about an hour once a month to shred just those little pieces. And yes, I do use an electric shredder for bank accounts and such like (and those annoying charity things that send you 150 labels with your name and address on), but I prefer to go the more environmentally friendly route and hand shred what I can. And can anyone clarify, is it true that you have to take the clear bit out of business envelopes, and the staples out of magazines, before you send them for recycling?
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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You should have seen the amount of junk mail we got from Charlie Elphicke in election week! In the last 10 days when post was delivered before the General Election, we got the same leaflet evry day. And I didn't vote for him!
True friends stab you in the front.
Junk mail is just a part of life i to got lots of conservative leaflets mine gt recycled without being read , sadly some people read them and even more amazingly believed them , even the liberals .
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Melissa, in Germany there is a law, if you put in front of your letterbox a sign saying: no junk-mail, in German of-course, then you will receive no junk-mail!
Melissa, I wanted to ask you a question. I never managed to find out how it went with those orange lights you wrote about. Because about a week after you wrote it, I saw one just as you described from my kitchen window at two minutes to nine in the evening, for about 30 seconds. Could you let me know if you managed to find out what these light are? Thanks!
Alexander never got an answer to what them lights were sadly and my sister also saw the same lights ova Maxton couple weeks ago and got video footage to.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Thanks Melissa! If it really is a super-natural manifestation, then that light I saw wanted me to see it! because I walked right into the kitchen, where the window has no curtain, just then as it was flying over! The window in my room has a pull-blind, and at night, I always keep the blind down. So I wouldn't have been able to see the light from my room, hence, I must have got up to go to the kitchen because someone wanted me to see the orange light!
Well there you go then Alexander x
Alexander on your recent post how about i buy a BIG dog and put a sign around his neck saying no junkmail or else?
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Junk Mail came in handy in the past when we had rabbits before the fox took them, as when shredded it made comfortable bedding.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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anything sent through the post has to be delivered to the address stated.
the royal mail would be breaing the law if they did otherwise.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm sure that the Royal Mail receive a substantial amount of cash to delivery unsolicited junk mail
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Barry, sometimes it comes from parties... unsilicited
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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posh did concur with your point alex.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Strangely enough I did not mean anything of a political nature.