Name & Shame Junk Mail Campaign
As no one else has done anything about this, Love Clapham has created a three step pro-active plan to tackling Clapham’s junk mail problem including printing ‘NO JUNK MAIL’ stickers out of our own pocket, and they aren’t cheap! If you would like a free sticker, email in with your name and address. Otherwise we’ll be giving the stickers out for free in Clapham over the coming weeks, so follow us on twitter @loveclapham to receive alerts of where and when this will be (they look better in real life… I stuck mine on slightly wonky).
One of the biggest problems in Clapham is the large amount of junk mail that gets stuffed through our letter boxes every single day, and by ‘junk mail’ I mean unsolicited mail like leaflets, local newspapers and magazines. We need to send a message to the delivery companies that this is unacceptable, especially if they ignore stickers like the one above. The only way to do this is if the businesses buying mass flyer deliveries insist it no longer happens. By obliterating junk mail we’re helping all of us, the environment and local businesses by cutting out the junk that annoys people – surely no business wants to annoy customers?!
Name & Shame Campaign
If you have a junk mail problem, follow our 3 step guide to junk mail destruction…
1. STOPWhack a Love Clapham ‘No Junk Mail’ sticker on your door. This should stop all junk mail. 2. SHAMEIf it doesn’t stop it and the flyer people ignore the ‘No Junk Mail’ sign, email us with the names of the company the leaflet is promoting and we’ll add them to our list of companies to ‘name and shame’ on the right. Companies can contact us to be removed after they have proven they’ve spoken to their delivery company to make sure it doesn’t happen again. 3. SHAREWorried that by stopping all junk mail it means you’ll miss out on local newspapers and takeaway menus? Panic ye not, for we live in a digital age and Love Clapham will create pages especially to link to the sites of the companies with menus and the local newspapers. Tell us about your favourites by emailing in. |
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Let's make this a thing of the past...
November 25th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Great campaign!
That bottom picture looks just like my front corridor after we go away for a couple days.
Do you have a jpeg of the sticker available? I’d like to print it out and tape it on to the letterbox.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Thanks Dan!
Yes, I’ll pop a jpeg into this blog post tomorrow.
November 29th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Difficult to say the Wandsworth Guardian is Junk Mail. Granted, it’s unsolicited, but so are all local newspapers. If it was opt in, there would be less circulation, and therefore less advertisers and it couldn’t exist (some might think that’s a good thing perhaps).
Anyway… Jane Ellison MP was giving away Return To Sender stickers yesterday, encouraging the return of junk/unclaimed post to avoid Identity Theft. Kinda similar campaign – except that it has political motivations.
November 29th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Hi Richard, yes, I got some of those stickers too, very good campaign / initiative.
Totally appreciate this campaign will ruffle some feathers of people but we live in a modern society where things like this shouldn’t happen. I would argue that the Wandsworth Guardian does fall into this category because if you haven’t asked for it and clearly request to not have unsolicited post it’s an invasion of your property and wishes. I have access to the Wandsworth Guardian website and only read that version, what’s the point in me receiving a printed version only to throw it away? More than anything it’s bad for the environment even if I do recycle it.
Or as I’d put it, I don’t want it and throw it in the bin, so it’s junk
December 1st, 2009 at 9:35 am
Richard: “Jane Ellison MP”> ??????!!!! You mean “future MP” surely… because currently the MP for Battersea is Martin Linton and Jane Ellison is Conservatives Spokesperson for Battersea
http://www.janeellison.net/
Regarding the sticker, although I welcome the campaign (and I like loveclapham), I must say:
1- I’ve always wondered what is the efficiency of those sticker. I had one on my old door and was receiving plenty of junk mail. I replace the door this year, does not have the sticker anymore, and have always the same amount of junk. Not less, not more.
2- I make a big difference between junk and information, Brightside, Wandsworth Guardian or even political leaflet are information. Pizza, deco and take away are junk.
3- Isn’t it only advertising for loveclapham?
December 1st, 2009 at 11:42 am
Hi Cyril, you’re right about the efficiency, I doubt how efficient they are too, that’s why I’m taking the hard line of naming and shaming companies (I’ll be making more noise about repeat offenders too). This site receives thousands of visits a day, so it’s not in local business’ interests to be ’shamed’ on here.
Regarding the information you mention, this is a personal choice and there are junk mail stickers on sale elsewhere that make the distinction. Personally, I think these are wasteful, bad for the environment and personally I do not want them, therefore – to me – they are unwanted junk.
I put the logo on there, so I guess it is advertising but it is not the reason for me doing this. I’m giving the stickers away for free (I’ve already paid £60 for 190 of them out of my own money) and I want more people to support this campaign, so I felt it was a good thing to do. People can always cut the logo off, I don’t have a problem with that at all. Perhaps they can stick it to the inside of the takeaway restaurants as pay back
December 2nd, 2009 at 11:25 am
Can we have a ‘KEEP CLAPHAM CLEAN’ spearheaded by LoveClapham please. Littering is a particular problem in the area and i’m not sure it is enitrely a council problem, people should not just drop their litter on the streets without a thought and then blame the council for not clearing up after them. it would also be worth putting up keep clapham clean stickers at stretegic points similar to LoveClpaham’s ‘No junk mail’. Would be good to ask the councils for more bins too.
December 3rd, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Love Clapham> You mean that your local borough news is junk? But where do people get any sort of information? Surely you need to feed them in some way or you are encouraging the sort of selfish behaviour (busy life – no time for community – not interested by what happens within the vicinity).
On the other hand, although more people use the Internet nowadays, we have to think of those who do not have access/don’t use it/are unfamiliar with websites.
Ouhaaa thousands a day. Congrats!
Steve>I agree on the “more bins” comment. At least it is easier to shame people if it is possible to point out that a bin is available next to them.
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:47 pm
I agree Cyril – remember, this only applies to people who have actively added a sticker to their door asking to stop unsolicited mail (which includes anything you haven’t asked for like borough news). People without anti-junk mail stickers will still get all of these. All I’m asking is for people to Respect-The-Sticker. Ooh, I might use that phrase more often
January 7th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
I think this campaign is daft. The schleppers who deliver junk (who are often not UK nationals) may not even be able to read it! And by naming the ones that ignore it you are simply giving them more publicity -
January 7th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
I’ve already had a couple of companies contact me because they weren’t happy about being listed and were apologetic. They’ve spoken to their deliver people – it is working slowly. It will never stop all junk mail of course.
January 7th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
OK then, fair enough. Good luck with it.
March 10th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
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March 11th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
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