leaflets through the door

Put up a sign saying No leaflets, junk mail or flyers. I deliver for a political party and woe betide us if we ignore those signs or don't push leaflets all thexway through.

Yes do put up a sign, an open letterbox will let cold air in as you say. You could also try purchasing an electric over blanket, they are not too expensive and with Black Friday coming up you could snap up a bargain. My DH and I both have one, it doesn’t use much electric and means that we can be warm and toasty and dial down the heating.

no, I have a sign, no junk mail, but still I get, lots of junk mail, some even delivered by Royal Mail!!

Royal Mail are paid to deliver the advertising mail. Or the posties are!

Yes I really agree put up a sign saying no junk mail. We keep an eye on our neighbours property when she is away and this has happened on a number of occasions. It does advertise that the occupant is probably on holiday. We normally just push it through the letterbox or pull it out whichever is the easiest. Yes also to much junk mail is also delivered by Royal Mail.

Retroladywriting

Put up a sign saying No leaflets, junk mail or flyers. I deliver for a political party and woe betide us if we ignore those signs or don't push leaflets all thexway through.

So what will happen if you ignore signs ? I'm intrigued Retroladywriting?

Simple answer, check the door a few times a day!

We have a metal post box atrached to the wall outside the front door. The leeter box opening in the front door is sealed up. This was put in place to prevent our always hungry sprocker spaniel from eating our letters, but the same thing would work for you

I too have an outdoor metal box, but all my junk mail just seems to be delivered on Mondays! (Royal Mail).

You’ve all winter in front of you so you may as well put up postbox attached to the wall first as last . Problem solved .

polnan

no, I have a sign, no junk mail, but still I get, lots of junk mail, some even delivered by Royal Mail!!

Royal Mail are contracted to deliver the leaflets according to a postman I spoke to, so they have no choice. But luckily my sign seems to work for just about everyone else.

I got a leaflet from the Green Party one Winter which had been holding my letterbox open all day. I few weeks later thery sent me one suggesting I get rid of my second car. (I dont have a car!)

I agree -how many times have I found a lot of leaflets rammed into the letterbox letting warm air out ?
I bought a no junk mail notice up and it was ripped down a few days later . It damaged the wood on the window sill and it had to be repainted .

The Royal mail also deliver lots of junk mail .

How inconsiderate of whoever posted the leaflets through.

I deliver flyers for a big local charity event, and take a long-handled spoon with me to shove them right through. Another benefit is that I won’t have my fingertip bitten off by a dog, as happened to another volunteer this year.

One thing about the “no leaflets” sign though. One local street is full of them - I think they bought a job lot. As I was walking past them all with leaflets in hand, a woman in her front garden asked what they were. She’d never heard of the event, was keen to go and was upset that it had been held for years without her knowing about it. I got the impression it was all my fault for not ignoring her sign…

You can stop mail that has no addressee here:

help.royalmail.com/personal/s/article/How-to-opt-out-of-advertising-mail

My windowcleaners now use a hosepipe connected to a tank with a pump to wash the windows. One member of the team puts a card with the date and the price through the door through the letterbox - it is ALWAYS sodden and lying in a puddle.

We get the few things delivered with post by the Royal Mail and the odd other leaflet but nothing to bother us .

so someone gets paid to delivery unwanted "rubbish" allows them to deliver? surely the other people who stuff leaflets through our doors also get paid? anyway, they immediately go into my rubbish box, keeps the world revolving I suppose!

Buy a little post box for outside your flat/house .

We too have a metal post box on the wall by the front door which has no letterbox in it at all, solid.

polnan

so someone gets paid to delivery unwanted "rubbish" allows them to deliver? surely the other people who stuff leaflets through our doors also get paid? anyway, they immediately go into my rubbish box, keeps the world revolving I suppose!

The income of the Post Office had fallen because people no longer send each other chatty letters - they send emails and texts instead - so they took ona contract to deliver marketing mail in bulk. That keeps them in business and the postmen paid to keep on delivering real letters as well as the marketing mailshots.

What about a metal or otherwise postbox for inside the door, so that even if the letter flap is left partly open at least the cold draught won't get right through to inside?

loads of those on this page.

www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=55588fd05011d482&rls=en&sxsrf=AE3TifM4riTjdgrgKkXkOctm5MnJpTASIw:1763597662451&q=Inside+front+door+post+box+to+prevent+draughts&spell=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj1zsmhuf-QAxVvV0EAHRAXGhwQBSgAegQIDxAB&biw=1129&bih=609&dpr=2

One tactic I heard about is to put 'Return to sender' on the unwanted material (if there is an address on it) and put in the postbox. Takes a bit of time, though.