Comments on: Green Post http://headrambles.com/2008/05/19/green-post/ Rambles around the head of an Irish Grandad Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:01:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: june in florida http://headrambles.com/2008/05/19/green-post/#comment-11390 june in florida Tue, 20 May 2008 01:54:12 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/05/19/green-post/#comment-11390 Grannymar had the right idea but go one step further and tear it up first.

]]> By: Grandad http://headrambles.com/2008/05/19/green-post/#comment-11389 Grandad Mon, 19 May 2008 23:40:48 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/05/19/green-post/#comment-11389 Do I take it we all love junk mail??

Paddy – I’m not particularly worried about the junk stuff. I have a box in the porch [Porche?] just for that. It’s the crap that is addressed to me from banks/companies that I have dealings with or who have scraped my address from somewhere.

Walltoall – Have we met before? Welcome! ;) My site is extremely intelligent and obviously assigned a flag based on the content of your site, rather than your lineage? I fell very sorry for your poor postman!!!

Another quirk I love is that Eircom [phone company] insist on sending me an email every month or whatever to say I can read my bill on-line [but I can't access it for some reason] and I always get the bill through the post the following morning.

]]> By: Nick http://headrambles.com/2008/05/19/green-post/#comment-11388 Nick Mon, 19 May 2008 22:45:19 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/05/19/green-post/#comment-11388 Isn’t it funny how computers were meant to bring about a paperless society, but we’re all drowning in more and more junk mail because computers just make it easier to churn out huge quantities of rubbish at the click of a mouse?

]]> By: Baino http://headrambles.com/2008/05/19/green-post/#comment-11387 Baino Mon, 19 May 2008 20:44:01 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/05/19/green-post/#comment-11387 I’m a member of the Australian Conservation Foundation who insist on sending me pages and pages of stuff each quarter about their conservation efforts. Similarly the Cancer Council sends me little stickers for snail mail (which I never use) complementary envelopes and plethora of case studies to convince me to give them $50! The mailing alone would have cost that. Fortunately, we’re on five acres and the junk mail deliverers can’t be bothered waltzing down the street to stuff our mail box so it’s paid mail only for us.

]]> By: walltoall http://headrambles.com/2008/05/19/green-post/#comment-11386 walltoall Mon, 19 May 2008 19:49:57 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/05/19/green-post/#comment-11386 When I’ve sifted the load of post into two bundles, I get on me bike to the postbox up the street and stuff what I don’t need in the slot. It’s max recycling, cause they can deal it out to other suckers and save paper, printing, posties shoe-leather.

And I get that warm glow that comes from putting one over on the bxstrxds.

And I get a bit of much needed exercise on the bike.

And … Why have I got a bloody union flag opposite me name? I ‘m a closet Shetlander

]]> By: Paddy Bloggit http://headrambles.com/2008/05/19/green-post/#comment-11385 Paddy Bloggit Mon, 19 May 2008 17:51:47 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/05/19/green-post/#comment-11385 You can opt out of junk mail Grandad!

Ta daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa:

http://www.dataprotection.ie/docs/A_Consumer_Guide_to_Dealing_with_Unsolicited_Direct_Marketin/288.htm
;)

]]> By: J Adamthwaite http://headrambles.com/2008/05/19/green-post/#comment-11384 J Adamthwaite Mon, 19 May 2008 17:20:13 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/05/19/green-post/#comment-11384 Quite. I’ve had three letters from Virgin Media advising me to switch to paperless bills – all after I switched to paperless bills. And if they’d stop trying to convince me to use their TV package, they’d save a whole lot of trees.

]]> By: Grandad http://headrambles.com/2008/05/19/green-post/#comment-11375 Grandad Mon, 19 May 2008 15:24:00 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/05/19/green-post/#comment-11375 Nick – I am proud to announce that I have never ever set foot in a gymnasium. Nor have I any intention of doing so. I value my health too much.

]]> By: Nick http://headrambles.com/2008/05/19/green-post/#comment-11374 Nick Mon, 19 May 2008 15:16:30 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/05/19/green-post/#comment-11374 Of course you’re not meant to USE the gym, you’re just meant to run there and back. In any case it probably only opens one hour a day when the sun’s directly overhead and they don’t need lighting, to minimise their carbon footprint.

]]> By: Grandad http://headrambles.com/2008/05/19/green-post/#comment-11376 Grandad Mon, 19 May 2008 15:09:45 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2008/05/19/green-post/#comment-11376 Ian – some were in English and as Gaeilge. Even more bulk. And don’t talk to me about these failed campaigns. As if were are to read a pamphlet and suddenly realise that we must realign our entire lives? Hah!

Grannymar – Quite a few of them. All unstamped!

Sam – I like that idea. The only problem is that I couldn’t be bothered to get off my arse and post them.

Johnie – Now that’s more like it.

Actually, I have just taken a stroll down to the landfill. It’s nearer than the Post Office. Also, paper is very good for composting down bodies, or so someone once told me…..

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