Junk Mail

[Honorary Bloke]

An interesting thread from my perspective. In the U.S., no one other than a Postal Service letter carrier is permitted to place any sort of material in your mailbox. If the letter carrier discovers it there whilst making deliveries, he usually turns it over to the Postal Inspectors who deal with the offenders. Even our local neighborhood newsletter being delivered to mailboxes got us in trouble until I made a side-arrangement with the neighborhood letter carrier to look the other way.

It isn't that the Postal Service is protecting us, mind you, but they are adament about collecting their postage for anything that goes in a mail box. You may also be interested (or not) to know that mail box size, height, and distance from kerb are also regulated in the suburbs so that all mail can be delivered without the carrier leaving his vehicle.

[savage]

I caught a middle aged IMBECILE - How can you argue with an imbecilic moron like that ?

Gee, Zed it looks like you may have answered your own question, in that if this person is an imbecile there is a good chance they can not read. So they are told to deliver the "mail" and they do just that!... Just my view, it's a good chance we are both right.

[Iain]

Like Echnidna, we get the Cowpile weekly and other assorted treatments for mysterious bovine ailments.
Once though we had a 4WD pull up, driver alights, opens gate, drives in, gets out, closes gate and proceeds the 60 metres odd up our driveway.
I saw the whole tribe and assumed it was someone coming to inspect a horse, no such luck, they all piled out and announced they were from the Bumpkin Brethren or whatever for a few seconds before they got the short shove.
They are bloody keen to get the numbers up.

[Tiger]

I find the solicitors far worse than the junk mail distributors. At least the junk mailers don't cause much interruption. Try this, next time the distributors of junk mail come, stand outside and once they arrive, grab all the junk mail and immediately tear it up in front of them (with a huge maniacal grin) and ask them if they have any more stuff you can rip up. That particular distributor probably won't come within 50 metres of you again.

Ah, wouldn't it be good if we could recylce the wasted paper back into wood that we could use in the workshop .

[echnidna]

There is always paper mache furniture

don't laugh its been done on a commercial basis.

see here
http://www.antics-nana.com/html_fr/c...duits/p31.html

so maybe junk mail is a resource

[Spittin Chips]

http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/litter/faq.htm contains some further reading about whats legal etc in NSW. Looks like accusing them of littering is about the only redress us private citizens have. Interesting to read nothing can be placed under wiper blades...its littering. Will now search for Vic laws. Chances are they are too busy looking for dripping taps to worry about junk mail

[Spittin Chips]

EPA Victoria has a small section...as suspected

Junk mail
Advertising material must be distributed according to the law. At home, all mail deliveries should be left either under the door or in a letterbox.
If your letterbox has a 'no junk mail' label (or equivalent), junk mail may not be placed in it. Unwanted advertising material should be reported to the Distributions Standards Board (1800 676 136).

[Iain]

Car park drops are illegal too, no crap ubnder wiper blades, doesn't seem to work though.

[Cliff Rogers]

'Tis funny how some things annoy some poeple.

Bin it, ignore it & get on with your life, you'll live longer.