I noticed someone earlier thought Royal Mail was as much to blame for these junk mail spams.(posted 7809 days ago)I have registered with the Mail Preference Service - to stop junk mail. Royal Mail sent me a huge survey with loads of tick boxes to fill in (which I presume they intend to supply to the companies you don't want the unsolicited mail from). I sent it back without ticking any boxes and wrote across every single page that I do not wish my details passed to other companies or stored in any way apart from stopping rubbish mail.
The junk mail I get does seem to be reducing, and now whenever I recieve unsolicited mail, I write them a polite letter saying I am registered with MPS and that their mail is unsolicited, I also ask them to explain where they received my details from and to remove me from their records completely, and to send me proof they have done so. I put the letter in their prepaid envelope if they provide one with all the crap they have kindly sent me (to add weight to the postage paid). If they send me more crap, I send them another letter telling them that I am now going to report them to the Advertising Standards Agency if I hear from them again. I put this letter, along with their very useful rubbish, in an unstamped envelope, so they get to go and get the letter from the post office and pay extra for the priviledge.
I rarely hear from anyone twice!
Tracey