All this recycling, I mean businesses keep shoving things in the letter boxes, we have to depose of packaging and the likes, and it all seems like it is left to us to take care of an issue that we the end user is not causing. Why not put a tax or some charge on excessive packaging, and unnecessary junk mail. I know the cost and how to administer, but the dream is in the right direction.
hako said
08:28 PM Aug 4, 2017
Remember you are in control.
Just buy a "No Junk Mail" sign for $2 from the local $2 shop to stop unwanted junk mail, and for excessive packaging, unpack it at the shop and just take the product - we've done this a few times when in the van and don't have a yellow recycling bin.
Good Luck.
JayDee said
10:07 PM Aug 5, 2017
We live in a security estate where they are not permitted to enter and deliver junk mail.
So the real estates get around this by sending us advertising via A.Post z( Snail mail)
We probably miss out on some bargains, but the estate rules are rules.
Jay&Dee
iana said
11:37 PM Aug 5, 2017
Yes we get junk mail in the guise of community newspapers (from three so called communities), each page is 75% advertising, the last 2/3 of the papers are 100% advertising. These papers are delivered free, so you get them whether you want them or not. I liked it when we were living in Naracoorte SA, and we had to purchase the local paper.
macka17 said
11:56 AM Aug 6, 2017
You probably knew my Daughter and her family?. Michel. Graham, and 3 girls. Lived out of town on farm. Supervisor in Woolies for yrs.
Came here around 10\12 yrs ago.
-- Edited by macka17 on Sunday 6th of August 2017 11:57:41 AM
iana said
02:01 PM Aug 6, 2017
We were south of Naracoorte, at a place called Wrattonbully, I worked for Wynn's winery. The wife new many of the farm folks.
RustyD said
05:05 PM Aug 9, 2017
My elderly neighbour put the NO JUNK MAIL on her letterbox. One day she was visiting us when she spotted the DAN MURHPY catalogue. She liked the odd sherry, port, whisky or three.
Wanted to know where I got it.
"In the mailbox."
"Wish someone would put that in my mailbox"
"But it's junk mail and you have a NO JUNK MAIL sign on your letterbox"
"Bugger".
All this recycling, I mean businesses keep shoving things in the letter boxes, we have to depose of packaging and the likes, and it all seems like it is left to us to take care of an issue that we the end user is not causing. Why not put a tax or some charge on excessive packaging, and unnecessary junk mail. I know the cost and how to administer, but the dream is in the right direction.
Just buy a "No Junk Mail" sign for $2 from the local $2 shop to stop unwanted junk mail, and for excessive packaging, unpack it at the shop and just take the product - we've done this a few times when in the van and don't have a yellow recycling bin.
Good Luck.
We live in a security estate where they are not permitted to enter and deliver junk mail.
So the real estates get around this by sending us advertising via A.Post z( Snail mail)
We probably miss out on some bargains, but the estate rules are rules.
Jay&Dee
You probably knew my Daughter and her family?.
Michel. Graham, and 3 girls.
Lived out of town on farm. Supervisor in Woolies for yrs.
Came here around 10\12 yrs ago.
-- Edited by macka17 on Sunday 6th of August 2017 11:57:41 AM
Wanted to know where I got it.
"In the mailbox."
"Wish someone would put that in my mailbox"
"But it's junk mail and you have a NO JUNK MAIL sign on your letterbox"
"Bugger".