say goodbye to affordable postage

[jaysay]

To be quite honest most of the stuff the postie puts through the letter box these days in unsolicited junk mail, even though I've signed up to say I don't want it

[cashman]

Originally Posted by jaysay

To be quite honest most of the stuff the postie puts through the letter box these days in unsolicited junk mail, even though I've signed up to say I don't want it

Perhaps thats cos nobody likes yeh?

[Margaret Pilkington]

Me too, John.
If I am feeling peevish....I put it back in the post box down the road.
I know this takes more effort than putting it in the paper recycle bag, but as I say, when I am feeling peevish/exasperated, it helps me to vent my spleen

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by cashman

Perhaps thats cos nobody likes yeh?

shut yer face you

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Me too, John.
If I am feeling peevish....I put it back in the post box down the road.
I know this takes more effort than putting it in the paper recycle bag, but as I say, when I am feeling peevish/exasperated, it helps me to vent my spleen

nice one

[Margaret Pilkington]

I have to admit having just a twinge of guilt for the poor chap who has to empty the stuff out.
We claim to be a country who is keen to nip waste in the bud, yet we waste time, paper ink, and man hours on something that very few of us actually want.

Then we have to fill our recycling sack with something we would much rather not have.

It is like tha magazines who slip advertising pamphlets, catalogues and such between their pages.
If I am buying a magazine, I give it a shake to dislodge all this bumf, and I leave it in the shop.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I have to admit having just a twinge of guilt for the poor chap who has to empty the stuff out.
We claim to be a country who is keen to nip waste in the bud, yet we waste time, paper ink, and man hours on something that very few of us actually want.

Then we have to fill our recycling sack with something we would much rather not have.

It is like tha magazines who slip advertising pamphlets, catalogues and such between their pages.
If I am buying a magazine, I give it a shake to dislodge all this bumf, and I leave it in the shop.

i do the same if i buy a newspaper.

[shillelagh]

Originally Posted by cashman

i do the same if i buy a newspaper.

does that mean you only get to read the front page and the back page cashy?

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

does that mean you only get to read the front page and the back page cashy?

No he only looks at pictures

[Gordon Booth]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Me too, John.
If I am feeling peevish....I put it back in the post box down the road.
I know this takes more effort than putting it in the paper recycle bag, but as I say, when I am feeling peevish/exasperated, it helps me to vent my spleen

Margaret, doesn't that mean they'll deliver it to you again? After a couple of weeks his bag could get quite heavy.

[Margaret Pilkington]

No Gordon, there is no address on them.
Sometimes if I feel really peevish I put them in an unstamped(big) envleope and send them back to the advertiser.

[Gordon Booth]

Naughty-but a good idea.
In a similar vein, do you get plastic collection bags(nearly every day) asking you for your cloths,shoes etc. Some, not many, from charities, most from commercial companies who quite often don't even claim a link to a charity. There must be money in it.
They'd have us walking round starkers if they had their way.
Iit wouldn't be so bad if you could use the bags for something else but the're useless.

[Mancie]

There are other ways to post by private firms but they cost.. some are trying to break the monopoly Royal Mail have on letters but there is no way they can compete on the under 50p to anywhere in the UK RM have .. when Royal Mail does get privatised the price of a simple stamp for a letter will go out the roof .. we will be told that competition is best for the consumer.. but we all know it is not .. take a look at gas, electric, trains, water... all were privatised and we are not better off!

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

Naughty-but a good idea.
In a similar vein, do you get plastic collection bags(nearly every day) asking you for your cloths,shoes etc. Some, not many, from charities, most from commercial companies who quite often don't even claim a link to a charity. There must be money in it.
They'd have us walking round starkers if they had their way.
Iit wouldn't be so bad if you could use the bags for something else but the're useless.

Yes Gordon, I do...but I only give to the British Heart Foundation and Sense.
I used to take things to the Cancer Charity shop too, but they have closed in Accrington.
I do not fill the bags for those companies who say they give the clothes to the poor in the third world. I am sure I read something somewhere about it being a scam, and that they actually sell the stuff.

[shillelagh]

i get them bags shoved thro the door regular ... and keep em for when i run out of bin bags .. i wont fill em them and leave em outside .. because im sure it was on watchdog or something they take em and sell em to the people theyre supposed to help ..