How you can help reduce junk mail

About junk mail

In the UK almost 500,000 tonnes of unwanted mail is posted to homes every year. Most of it ends up in the bin. In two easy steps you can help to reduce the amount of Shropshire’s waste that goes to landfill, and save yourself the annoyance of receiving unwanted junk mail.

Reduce your junk mail

For addressed junk mail…

Contact the Mailing Preference Service (MPS). By registering your name and address with the MPS you will gradually begin to receive less junk mail.
The whole process takes up to 6 months to completely kick in and will last for five years. You will continue to receive mail from companies which you have done business with in the past, for example, mail order companies.

For full details and registration form, write to:

Mailing Preference Service
Freepost 22
London
W1E 7EZ
0845 7034599 (local rate)

or follow the link to the Mailing Preference Service website.

For unaddressed regional junk mail…

Much of the junk mail that you receive through your letter-box is sent out on a regional basis to every household. Write to the Royal Mail Helpline and ask for your address to be taken off their database and you will no longer receive unaddressed junk mail.

Beaumont House,
Sandy Lane West,
Oxford,
OX4 6ZZ,

You can also stick a polite notice on your letter box which may help prevent locally delivered material such as take away menus and free papers. However you are still probably going to get some unwanted mail, so remember to recycle it with your newspapers.

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