Estate Agent Flyers

Estate agents are having to work harder to engage clients since the downturn in house sales following the 2008 crash. Happily things are recovering now, though the forecast of inflation rises following Brexit may make interest rates and mortgage costs less affordable soon. Given that we are all inundated with advertising in newspapers, television, on the side of buses etc (OK they can be a bit rare these days), the Internet and Email, I'm not sure why unsoliced Mail is causing such offence, ditto charities who are working hard to raise funds, not just by begging for money, but by working on recycling and resale. My one major objection is unsolicited phone calls which are an intrusive disruption. Registering for call preference is ignored by too many cold callers. As for unwanted mail, it's easily disposed of as material for the recycling bin.

Its not something I get exercised about as after a quick glance they go straight into recycling. I am often impressed with the production quality. Anyone who has been on a cruise will really understand about unsolicited mail. Hardly a day goes by without a flyer from Bolsover or P&O. Not really a problem for us but I wonder how much less the cruises could be if they saved on the price of printing!!! I am much more suspicious of charity bags as most of them, whilst claiming to be in aid of a particular charity only donate a small proportion of any money they earn. OK its money that the charity might otherwise not get but if things that are put in the bags are in reasonable condition it might be better to take the items to your favourite charity shop direct.

David

I think that is what most people do David, we support the local to us charity shops by taking goods to them. I'm afraid the plain white van man gets nothing from us.

Guess what the charity clothes collection have a new trick giving up on the bags but now putting a sticky label through the letterbox to attach to your own bags!

Unsolicited mail goes straight into the Blue Bin.  As far as the charity bags are concerned, (we get a few every week), we use them as bin liners in the kitchen pedal bin and then put the full bags of kitchen rubbish into the grey wheelie bin.  Keeps the grey bin clean and uncontaminated. 

Cheers ..........K

ditto charities who are working hard to raise funds, not just by begging for money

Except when they are passing names and addresses around so that they can beg for more money to pay overprice CEO's and Board Members.  I alweays bin unsolicited mail

Guess what the charity clothes collection have a new trick giving up on the bags but now putting a sticky label through the letterbox to attach to your own bags!

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'Trick up their sleeves' Oh! the rogues and scammers, fancy collecting for starving Africans or people living on the streets of our cities and towns. Soup kitchens, a disgrace, the collectors should be shot. Fancy expecting people to donate a bin bag - it's an appealing affront to middle England.

Having worked opposite a warehouse which stored the filled collected bags I would recommend that anything good clothes-wise should be taken direct to a charity shop. Your donated bags just end up in mountainous heaps, based on tonnage they are part of a worldwide clothing trade. See here