Estate Agent Flyers
We are lucky enough to live in a highly desirable area, we've been here 32 years and haven't brought the area down yet!
We have great schools from nursery to senior including 6th form and a college all withinvery easy walking distance. We have selective grammar schools for boys and girls within walking further distance as well as a further selection of schools. We can also
walk into town. Buses have been cut over the years (we no longer have first owners of our houses built in 1930's in our road, but there is one of 103 in a nearby road - many well over 90 and several past 100) as those who used them have moved on, but still
a few a day.
Properties sell very quickly and we are getting fed up with constant bombardment from estate agents in the form of flyers through our door sometimes more than one agent a day
. Are we alone in this or does it happen to others?
Once again today we've been informed we will soon have new neighbours and would we like to sell our property through us? They don't even offer to give a discount should you consider doing so. IF we were selling our property I would certainly
be asking for discounts and playing one against the other to get the best deal. In fact I'd probably go it alone if they go as fast as they seem to - hot cakes are slow compared
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Try a sticker on the door saying "No advertising literature, junk mail of cold callers". You can buy them on eBay.
There again, it's only bits of paper to put straight in the recycling bin and it sounds as if you'll be in a good position to negotiate your own selling terms.
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My sister to lives in a much sought after area as estate agents say, but it's an over 55 no children resident other than grandchildren visit and the odd stay over, she to receives such a large amount of junk mail , but there problem mainly is the Royal Mail
postman she gets at least 2 pieces of junk for every letter he post being in a vunrable age area most are well in there late 60s surely this is very poor judgement by someone in the post office .....no wonder they need those big trolleys we see them pushing
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Our next door neighbour owns one of the market leader estate agents for our area and we get flyers from their company so we shove them through their letterbox.
It's charity bags that pee us off. Sometimes four per day.
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My sister to lives in a much sought after area as estate agents say, but it's an over 55 no children resident other than grandchildren visit and the odd stay over, she to receives such a large amount of junk mail , but there problem mainly is the Royal Mail
postman she gets at least 2 pieces of junk for every letter he post being in a vunrable age area most are well in there late 60s surely this is very poor judgement by someone in the post office .....no wonder they need those big trolleys we see them pushing
aroundWe live in a similarly restricted environment, Ruby, but get very little junk mail.
Royal Mail are paid to deliver the junk so that's what they will do as it's not for them to censor or descriminate who they deliver to.
Isn't there an organisation we can register with along the lines of the TPS but for mail rather than telephone calls?
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Those bags can be invaluable for packing if you're moving house.
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We don't get a lot of flyers other than the ones the Royal mail push through, great living in a village out the way. We do get the charity bags now and again, they seem to come in batches nothing for weeks/months then all of them within days. Nobody seems
to come and collect the goods though, So like others I use them.0 -
Tinwheeler, she has tried MPS with no luck yet , she is hoping to get more in the area as well to join her stop the junk mail campaign,
as for charity bags I love them , we have been paying for bags in Wales a long while now, so when they drop through the door great for us we always manage to fill them with rubbish for the tip or just bin liners
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Estate agents are having to work harder to engage clients since the downturn in house sales following the 2008 crash. Happily things are recovering now, though the forecast of inflation rises following Brexit may make interest rates and mortgage costs less affordable soon. Given that we are all inundated with advertising in newspapers, television, on the side of buses etc (OK they can be a bit rare these days), the Internet and Email, I'm not sure why unsoliced Mail is causing such offence, ditto charities who are working hard to raise funds, not just by begging for money, but by working on recycling and resale. My one major objection is unsolicited phone calls which are an intrusive disruption. Registering for call preference is ignored by too many cold callers. As for unwanted mail, it's easily disposed of as material for the recycling bin.
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Its not something I get exercised about as after a quick glance they go straight into recycling. I am often impressed with the production quality. Anyone who has been on a cruise will really understand about unsolicited mail. Hardly a day goes by without
a flyer from Bolsover or P&O. Not really a problem for us but I wonder how much less the cruises could be if they saved on the price of printing!!! I am much more suspicious of charity bags as most of them, whilst claiming to be in aid of a particular charity
only donate a small proportion of any money they earn. OK its money that the charity might otherwise not get but if things that are put in the bags are in reasonable condition it might be better to take the items to your favourite charity shop direct.David
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Unsolicited mail goes straight into the Blue Bin. As far as the charity bags are concerned, (we get a few every week), we use them as bin liners in the kitchen pedal bin and then put the full bags of kitchen rubbish into the grey wheelie bin. Keeps the grey bin clean and uncontaminated.
Cheers ..........K
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ditto charities who are working hard to raise funds, not just by begging for money
Except when they are passing names and addresses around so that they can beg for more money to pay overprice CEO's and Board Members. I alweays bin unsolicited mail0 -
Guess what the charity clothes collection have a new trick giving up on the bags but now putting a sticky label through the letterbox to attach to your own bags!
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'Trick up their sleeves' Oh! the rogues and scammers, fancy collecting for starving Africans or people living on the streets of our cities and towns. Soup kitchens, a disgrace, the collectors should be shot. Fancy expecting people to donate a bin bag - it's
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Having worked opposite a warehouse which stored the filled collected bags I would recommend that anything good clothes-wise should be taken direct to a charity shop. Your donated bags just end up in mountainous heaps, based on tonnage they are part of a
worldwide clothing trade. See
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