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Help stop unsolicited mail from NTL / UPC

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    #92
    RangeR
    Registered Users Posts: 7,265 ✭✭✭RangeR


    koolkid wrote: »
    The hosting is set up. I am kinda busy also.
    Anyone want to make a start on it PM me.

    I can setup the site but I don't know if I'd have time to maintain the content. The framework shouldn't take more than a day or three.

    Oh, I'm by no means a graphics expert either.

    Maybe WordPress or Joomla, maybe?


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    #93
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users Posts: 9,557 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Great idea.

    Better still, why not send all the mails to the residential address of one of the directors?


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    #94
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    Facebook group??


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    #95
    KoolKid
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 24,789 Mod ✭✭✭✭KoolKid


    I sent you a PM RangeR.


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    #96
    KoolKid
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 24,789 Mod ✭✭✭✭KoolKid


    My letters are back this week.:mad:
    Anyone else?


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    #97
    bcirl03
    Registered Users Posts: 484 ✭✭bcirl03


    Havent had one in ages.....I thought they might have got the message.


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    #98
    parsi
    Site Banned Posts: 5,904 ✭✭✭parsi


    Mine have stopped. So I urge ye to talk to them on twitter and start the ball rolling.


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    #99
    Day2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭Day2


    Well done guys. Is this still ongoing, I have a nice batch ready to go, if the 1st October is still a runner ??


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    #100
    KoolKid
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 24,789 Mod ✭✭✭✭KoolKid


    They are on a role out my way as well.
    I have 4 or 5 now.
    Anyone else?


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    #101
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,555 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    At least with 'the occupier' letters you can throw them in the recycling.

    I get endless amounts of spam from Viking Office Supplies with my name and address printed on a catalogue inside a plastic envelope, so I have to rip off the plastic, then my name, before I can chuck it. I have asked them to stop sending them - not sure but I think I get about 1 a week - I have returned some, and I have closed the account. But still they come - with the account number on! Saving them up would be a good idea, I could put them in a parcel (maybe with a brick :D) and send it with no postage...


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    #102
    KoolKid
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 24,789 Mod ✭✭✭✭KoolKid


    At least with Viking must have registered an account at some stage.
    Can you not log in and change your address?


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    #103
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,555 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    koolkid wrote: »
    At least with Viking must have registered an account at some stage.
    Can you not log in and change your address?

    As I said, I have phoned them and cancelled my account, but it hasn't made any difference. I haven't bought anything other than one lot of paper for around 5 years, and I didn't buy all that much when I had an office.

    I didn't think of changing it on-line, I'll give that a try. I would not mind an occasional brochure, but the rate they send them out is ridiculous.


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    #104
    TheResident
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭TheResident


    koolkid wrote: »
    They are on a role out my way as well.
    I have 4 or 5 now.
    Anyone else?
    I have 5 or 6. Are we still on for 1st October?


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    #105
    KoolKid
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 24,789 Mod ✭✭✭✭KoolKid


    I have enough to send.
    Anyone else?


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    #106
    vandammaged
    Closed Accounts Posts: 166 ✭✭vandammaged


    why the first of may next year ?
    tbh wrote: »
    Howdy chaps, hope it's ok to put this here.

    I'm trying to get as many people as possible to hang on to any of those mails you get from NTL / UPC addressed to "The Resident" @ your address.

    I've tried A LOT to get off their mailing list, with no luck. I'd say I get one letter a week, which normally goes into the green bin, unopened.

    If, like me, you'd like to send two fingers to UPC, I would ask you to hold onto any of these letters, unopened, in the back of a drawer for the time being.

    I'm then going to get as many people as possible to return them on the 1st of May next year.

    To return them, all you have to do is write "not known at this address" on the letter and stick it back in the postbox.

    It's very important that you do not pay for postage

    I'd appreciate it if you think of it, and if you hear any of your mates or whatever complaining in the next six months, maybe you'd point them at this thread.

    keep yourselves nice,
    tbh.


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    #107
    vandammaged
    Closed Accounts Posts: 166 ✭✭vandammaged


    What will sending back them all do ?

    It wont stop them from charging.

    They are making to much money from it.


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    #108
    KoolKid
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 24,789 Mod ✭✭✭✭KoolKid


    vandammaged wrote: »
    why the first of may next year ?
    That was May this year. The original post way 2009:)


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    #109
    vandammaged
    Closed Accounts Posts: 166 ✭✭vandammaged


    so did it work ?

    what happened ?

    I signed up with there broadband but in my terms and conditions it states that I will no longer recieve letters in the post.

    Im mad as hell and Im no goin to take it anymore but I can;t do anything about it.
    koolkid wrote: »
    That was May this year. The original post way 2009:)


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    #110
    KoolKid
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 24,789 Mod ✭✭✭✭KoolKid


    vandammaged wrote: »
    so did it work ?
    It doesn't seeem to have. I am still getting their junk mail.


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    #111
    parsi
    Site Banned Posts: 5,904 ✭✭✭parsi


    So did anyone contact them via twitter ( @weareupc as I suggested) ?

    I did. My junk mails from UPc stopped within a month.

    So why not try this ?


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    #112
    moceri
    Registered Users Posts: 455 ✭✭moceri


    Your address, according to the Data Protection Commissioner is not your own and how it is used is free to all and sundry. This is further complicated by a Company called "DATA IRELAND" which is a subsidiary of An POST who are pimping addresses from their address verification database to companies like SKY and UPC.

    You can ring them on 01 8584800 and ask them to remove your address from their marketing DataBase.


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    #113
    DonJose
    Registered Users Posts: 3,470 ✭✭✭DonJose


    UPC don't service my area, I'd love to get some unsolicited mail from them :(


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    #114
    thesandeman
    Registered Users Posts: 10,514 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    Not sure if it was always there but I dont think so: The letter I got from them yesterday has 'if undelivered please return to PO Box 11279, Dublin 2' on the top corner.


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