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Canada Post is planning to end home delivery. Here's how community mailboxes will work (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Put a sign in your mailbox saying "No Neighbourhood Mail Please" or "No Flyers Please" and you'll stop getting most junk. You'll still get some government stuff like bylaw announcements from the municipality or occasional notices from your MP or MLA, but it will cut out most of it.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    I don't get regular flyers from Canada Post I already stopped that, but I'm getting things like pamphlets from Rona being sent to previous tenants, so it's got a person addressed on it.

    Edit: and there's like 5 or 6 names of people's stuff like this that keeps showing up.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Ah, that one's tougher. Most of the time the sender isn't paying for return service. For most advertising like that, anyway.

    You can look at the postage on the top right... If it says "Personalized Mail" then it won't be returned unless it says that it will underneath. "Postage Paid" or "Letter Mail," or that extra note under "Personalized Mail" that says it will be returned (I forget the exact wording, but it's obvious when it's there), you can just draw a line through the name and address and leave it for the letter carrier or put it in a red box.

    It's still up to the sender to stop wasting their money, though.

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