In reply to a post by ChrisAO:

I hope you mean chuck it in the recycling

Even worse when people say they will be chucking their routers in the bin as opposed to disposing it at an electrical equipment collection point...

In reply to a post by Oliver341:

In reply to a post by ChrisAO:

I hope you mean chuck it in the recycling

Even worse when people say they will be chucking their routers in the bin as opposed to disposing it at an electrical equipment collection point...

What did the router say as it was thrown in the bin?
"WEEE"

In reply to a post by Oliver341:

Even worse when people say they will be chucking their routers in the bin as opposed to disposing it at an electrical equipment collection point...

Not enforced for home users, corporates get serious fines for breaching WEEE regulations. Not enough councils have electrical recycling points that people know about. I see enough junked broken electronics in communal rubbish bins

In reply to a post by jchamier:

Not enough councils have electrical recycling points that people know about.

Agreed.

In reply to a post by awontroba:

Unaddressed junk mail and leaflets may not be coming via Royal Mail but via some other carrier.

http://www.royalmail.com/personal/help-and-support/h... does say

Please be aware that Royal Mail delivers a minority of the total volume of unaddressed mail items in the United Kingdom. The opt out will not cover any other distributors, who will continue to deliver unaddressed mail items. Opting out of Royal Mail Door to Door deliveries will not necessarily reduce by a significant amount the number of items you will receive, as there are other carriers in the market place.

The Mail Preference Service should work well for junk mail addressed to you, provided you have not given the sender consent, which is all to easy to do.

For unaddressed junk mail delivered by organisations other than Royal Mail, a (polite) sign on the door can work to an extent.

In reply to a post by Andrue:

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Is the "dull as" required?

I'd take that as a complement. I don't want excitement from my ISP. I just want the service to work as it should day after day in a dull and boringly predictable fashion. At the moment that seems to be the case.

Absolutely - for an ISP, "dull as dishwater" is a good thing. It's a bit like an electricity supply - you don't want it to be "exciting", you want it to just work!

I sure want some electrons to be excited on my electricity supply!