No flyers please?
 

...would putting a note like that on my mailbox have any effect? Or will I just incur the wrath of the delivery person :eek:

I helped with a paper round in Germany as a kid and "no flyers please" stickers were taken very seriously there...I dared not have offloaded my junk on one of those :scared:

Suppose the easiest way to find out is to try it, just wondered if any particular wording works better than others, etc?!

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For the free newspapers a call to them will stop the flyers or the whole delivery. My daughter has standing instructions for several houses on her route

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Make it a big sign nothing worst than getting all the way to the door to see a small print No flyers. - My kids only have to see the sign once and you never get them up your path again.

p.s kids get paid for not delivering to you if you use a sign - if you tell the newspaper they don't get paid.

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We kind of like some of the flyers actually, it means we get hold of things like discount coupons for places like linen 'n things, and other stores.

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Canada Post will honour it and not deliver any "unaddressed mail" (junk mail) that they are contracted to deliver - I think it's one of their rules... and the postie borgs are pretty anal about following their rules. The stuff delivered by Joe Blow and his kid... just depends on them but usually it will be respected if they see and can read your note. In Victoria I kept having unwanted stuff delivered by an elderly Chinese woman so I got a friend to make a note in Chinese characters... but she still delivered the junk anyways! :D

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I MISS my FLYERS

they are so harmless , just recycle

i thank god the day , i will be there to receive our flyers on a saturday morning as we did during the summer....... FOR GOOD !!!!

small meaningless things mean sooooooo much eh
:rolleyes:
sharon xoxoxo

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I recommend:
The monthly newsletter that our community association distributes actually has useful information in it. I avoid a sign that is so aggressive that it dissuades the delivery person from popping the community newsletter in our mailbox.

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I ignore the "no flyers" and "no junk mail" signs when I deliver the community newsletters. Our newsletters are not junk mail therefore you WILL receive it!

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Warning - pet peeve coming! We get tons of flyers in our mailbox, mostly for gyms and home improvement places like window or flooring companies. The peeve is the lazy, slobby, neighbours who take them out of their mail and just stuff them in the slots on top of the mailbox station. (ours is one of those large banks of boxes at the end of the street and there are slots in the top between the banks of boxes) Would it break their damned arms to carry it home and dump it in the recycle bin? I got so sick of seeing stacks and stacks of mail up there so I put a recycle box there for people to put their junk in. It took a couple of weeks to get them to put the stuff in the box instead of on top of the mail boxes. Gee, they couldn't be bothered to bend over and put it in the box? Grrrrr! It seems that nobody on the street cares if the mail box area looks like a pigsty except me. Lets not even talk about the a$$holes who put their doggy doo bags in the recycle box!

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Our regular jink mail comes in the form of our local newspaper wrapped reound all the advertising crap. I have bought houses that have had a 'no flyers' stuck ont he inside of the mailbox lid and it works well here but then the paper is our only local method of communication and some of the sales crap is useful. There's very little else in our neck of the woods....hicksville maybe :zzz:

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Thanks all :)

Mr B says I'm a mean old bag if I don't give the delivery person a Xmas tip for bringing 20 tonnes of waste to my door throughout the year (!) so I'll put my carefully worded note up after then.

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Does anyone tip the flyer boy? I have never even considered it. I dont think his mum would be too pleased with me either.

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Flyer boy? Ours is about 50!

I quite like getting our twice-weekly "publi-sac" (that is sooo close to being rude).

I'm never happier than when I'm leafing through the Home Depot, Reno Depot, Rona or even CT stuff looking at all the toys.

Come think of it, we got our dining suite bcause of a flyer. We'd been looking for one for ages with no joy. I'd got to the stage of considering making one. Then we got a flyer from a local store. Bingo.

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Our route is shared between a couple of siblings - they are 8 and 14. "Boy" was the correct word in my case.

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Which makes this post all the more perplexing:

Perhaps I've been reading too much about Gary Glitter.

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Clearly my "boy" is in serious need of some extra cash. Maybe I should tip him.

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When I first came to Vancouver I used to see loads of signs on people's front doors that said, "No Courier Please". I couldn't understand what they had against couriers since they're usually delivering something! Then I found out that there's a free local rag called Vancouver Courier! Doh! :o

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Most of our ad flyers for the local stores come in the 3 times a week "free" local paper. While the paper is free you do have to pay the delivery kid $6/month to deliver it. They only use kids from 12 to 16 in age and they give you a sheet of coupons for local restaurants when you pay. I do use these flyers to plan my grocery shopping for the week, so we pay our kid (a boy who lives 4 houses up the street) when he comes around.

All the really annoying flyers come in our mailbox rather than the paper or delivered to our door.

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No - you are reading too much into the fact that I didnt give you all of the information you needed. Perhaps I should have said "their mum" - happy now?

What has Gary Glitter got to do with it? :confused:

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I surely won't be giving mine anything other than a clip round the earhole. I collected up my stuff and found my mail soaking wet as he'd left the lid up and we has a bit of rain last week...er twice coz minutes after I collected it he's delivered again and left it open again and he was watching me as I talked to me about closing the lid :( (we have two deliveries a week!!)

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It's not at all clear why the mother of the child or children who deliver the paper would be unhappy at your providing them with a monetary reward. Thus I wondered if you meant something else by "tip".

Gary Glitter was a British pop singer in the eighties. He's still famous as his name is rhyming slang for rectum and he has been much in the news lately.

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I'm probably going to regret asking this one but.....

how on earth does GG become rhyming slang for rectum....perhaps I'm out of practice but I can't think of anything that rhymes.....:confused:

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HWP is absolutely correct in this regard.

Here is a link to a letter to the editor written by a Canada Post spokesperson in July of this year.

Cheers
Steve

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Actually I love the flyers, I sit down on Wed and Fri nights with a nice cup of tea and a stack of flyers to go through... yes, it's like that...

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Shi**er.

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I know this post is a little late....

how about putting your recycling box under (or near) your mail box so the waste goes straight into it (rather than junk being brought into the house)

or you could even put a note saying that if people insist on delivering junk to your home (in order to get paid) then could they please deliver it straight to your recycling bin :-)