Great sign! I have a much less crafty handwritten one, which worked for a little while. Now (a year later) I get tons of leaflets. My sign seems only to keep away the local newspaper, which I don't really mind getting. Oh well.
That's an awesome idea, I don't find it rude at all, on the contrary, it's very polite!! It's a shame that it wouldn't really work that well for me in the UK, I'd love to stop all the crap that comes through my letter box.
In the UK we have letter boxes, not mail boxes, so mail is posted directly into the house. What's more, leaflets are also given to the Royal Mail to deliver, so there is no choice in the matter, it gets posted in with our regular mail. There is a rule that they are only supposed to deliver no more than 3 pieces of unsolicited mail a week, but I know I've had more than that delivered in the past.
My dog attacks our post, so after I've grabbed the important mail, I let her chew on the junk.
Every now and then we get people delivering Avon magazines, or other magazines selling stuff, and they request that we leave them on the doorstep to collect on a certain day. They soon stopped delivering them when I returned them ripped to shreds... Good Dog!!!
You can opt out of the junk mail from Royal Mail. I had to fill in a form, which I got from their website. Sometimes they still deliver it anyway, but I think I get less now. I'm always tempted to take the junk and put it back in the post box down the road, but my more mature & responsible husband always recycles it before I get the chance.
And I also get fed up with people who leave catalogues and expect to get them back. I have a sign out saying not to leave it in the first place, and you expect me to go out of my way to make sure you get it back?
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