Junk mail leaves me in the cold

By Anna Heywood on Sep 18, 09 11:54 AM

Junk mail -It's bad for the environment but not just in the way you'd think.

Felled trees for paper use, inks and then waste were all issues highlighted by a neighbour of mine, Anne Cohen, a few years ago when we lived in Sidney Grove, Fenham.

She made an amazing tower of all the hand delivered junk mail and was featured in the press for her efforts. You can read about it here.

The most irritating part of hand delivered junk mail is the fact that my gate is very rarely re-closed and why is it that the delivery agent seems unable to fully push the leaflet through the door? A great advert to potential burglars that I'm not in AND a huge gap of cold air enters the house making it feel like a freezer - a waste of the energy being used to heat up the house prior to our return home.

Sometimes I telephone these companies to complain about it, but today readers I am declaring war on junk mail - think of all those houses with open letter boxes having cold air blown through their houses. How much energy is being wasted through this?

Pro-Clean UPVC Cleaning Specialists and Walker Taxis: today I name and shame you - please get your delivery agents to make sure letter boxes are closed.

I would love to hear of any other companies whose agents are guilty of this.
Please feel free to post their names here.

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