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

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?!

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

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.

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.

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!

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

sharon xoxoxo

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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.

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!

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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

Which makes this post all the more perplexing:

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