Madam, – A few months ago, in an effort to stymie the cascade of unwanted slips and brochures that was coming through my door each day, I placed a simple note on the outside of the letterbox that reads “No junk mail”. The effect was immediate; the flow of junk mail was stemmed almost entirely and I was delighted to have erased this one tiny problem from my life.
Alas, my air of self-satisfaction at resolving this niggling issue has only lasted until this week, when the scourge of junk mail has once more raised its ugly head in a new and more malicious form: electioneering brochures. In the past few days I have received half a dozen brochures from election candidates that are addressed to neither myself nor my place of residence, something that in my mind sets them out as junk mail.
If these politicians cannot understand and comply with the most basic wishes of their constituents such as “No junk mail” how are they to be trusted to represent slightly more complex instructions such as, “Stop giving all our money to the flaming banks!” – Yours, etc,