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Fiachna50 Wed 18-Mar-20 16:09:59

We wash our hands after taking in mail. I also disinfect my gate handle, letterbox, door handle and doorbell. More to protect the postie as well as ourselves.

Baggs Wed 18-Mar-20 14:33:14

Thanks, nono. I'm oretty sure I did that some years ago. It doesn't seem to last.

Some years ago also I slapped "Unwanted; return to sender" onto every unwanted piece of guff that came to our house and reposted it. Those items stopped coming. Then, gradually, others started to build up again.

Nonogran Wed 18-Mar-20 13:24:02

Hello Bags, you can stop the marketing junk which is delivered by your postman. Go on line to the Royal Mail web page and look for a form you can fill in. You might have to dig deep for it! Memory tells me you might need to print it off, complete it with your details and, pop it in the post! I don't think it can be done on line! I am also signed up to the Mailing Preference list. Junk through my door is vastly reduced. Might take a bit of time, maybe a few weeks to filter through the system but in time the junk should stop. Hope this helps.

merlotgran Wed 18-Mar-20 13:19:37

We're washing our hands after every delivery whether it's postman or courier. Packaging is going in the recycling bin PDQ and not hanging around in the kitchen. I also have a bag for stuff that can't be recycled but can go on the bonfire.

Baggs Wed 18-Mar-20 13:11:24

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Baggs Wed 18-Mar-20 13:11:04

For a long time, many years, a large proportion of what our postman has to deliver to our house is unsolicited and unwanted guff that goes straight in the recycling bin. Since he has to come off road up a steep and, with all the recent rain, washing away dirt track, I once told him he could just bin the guff. He can't. He must deliver it. Job rules.

Given that we don't know who or how many people have touched all this unnecessary guff, we are being thorough about hand-washing after we've touched it, even if it's only to consign it to the bin.

Makes me wonder how much of modern life could be simplified and made less germifyingly less toxic.