Advertising by post: nobody wants this | Letters
Daniel Owen would welcome the demise of postal marketing, while Marlene McAndrew asks why charities repeatedly send appeals to the same peopleI am prepared to accept the demise of letter writing discussed in your editorial (The Guardian view on sending letters: the writing’s on the wall, 22 December) if it also means the abolition of all forms of postal marketing.In an online age, the obscene environmental cost alone of printing and distributing large volumes of paper material, 99% of which will go straight into a recycling bin unread, should have caused the demise of this form of advertising years ago. No one would miss it.Daniel OwenTorrington, Devon Continue reading...
Daniel Owen would welcome the demise of postal marketing, while Marlene McAndrew asks why charities repeatedly send appeals to the same people
I am prepared to accept the demise of letter writing discussed in your editorial (The Guardian view on sending letters: the writing’s on the wall, 22 December) if it also means the abolition of all forms of postal marketing.
In an online age, the obscene environmental cost alone of printing and distributing large volumes of paper material, 99% of which will go straight into a recycling bin unread, should have caused the demise of this form of advertising years ago. No one would miss it.
Daniel Owen
Torrington, Devon Continue reading...
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