In reply to a post by FibreBubble:

Marketing works.

We all remember the many months of twists and turns. The agonising toing and froing. The daily and sometimes thrice daily updates and the eventual sign up after you got a marketing letter from zzoomm.

Because of price and the fact that the provider I was with, kept trying to push me to FTTP anyway. I am not saying marketing don't work, as it does, sometimes, but do a bit of research on the city you are marketing to. Sadly, that is the way it is these days, just lazy marketing. Not that I would go to BT at their prices, also the 24 month contract.

In reply to a post by burble:

We get VM leaflets despite being 5+ miles from anywhere that can get it.
I always found it odd that BT, or anyone else, never targeted our area when FTTP was installed under BDUK contract, it's taken couple of years before some households have realised they don't have to put up with the appalling FTTC speeds around here.

BT seems to have gone into over drive since FTTP was available and Zzoomm came, we may have had something through the post once in a blue moon, but now it seems like it is every month, they seem to be the only one, I had a Vodafone leaflet once not long after FTTP went live and a couple of sky ones. Zzoomm was the one, it was every couple of weeks until I got zzoomm, so they seem to be checking who have their service before sending out leaflets as I have not had one since I signed up. I did expect more marketing from different providers now Openreach FTTP is here.

In reply to a post by fredfox:

We get pizza leaflets for places that don't deliver to us

That is crazy. I get leaflets from takeaways and pizza places, but they just go into the bin right way.

you are on about one person here, you. I am on about a whole city.

You speak for a whole city ? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

you are on about one person here, you. I am on about a whole city.

You speak for a whole city ? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Sigh,
There is no way that a pizza place is going to know that you, are a vegi, when they send you a leaflet, but I am pretty sure that BT knows that this city don't have Virgin, if we did have Virgin I expect Openreach would have acted sooner to lay fibre.

They may well do. But the marketing company handed the flyer job do not , a bit like my example of pizzas and my vegetarian diet.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

But the marketing company handed the flyer job do not

Perhaps paying too cheap for the marketing co.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

They may well do. But the marketing company handed the flyer job do not , a bit like my example of pizzas and my vegetarian diet.

I thought it was all suppose to be targeting marketing these days? I realise that targeting one person with leaflets would be very difficult and expensive, but a city? Fair enough if it was a large city with different regions that where some may have Virgin and others don't.

Saying BT told someone down the road we had FTTP here, when we did not. So if their own call centres don't know what is here, then I was expecting a bit much for a leaflet to be accurate. then again, Talk Talk said that fibre was not available here when it was.
These companies really need to sort things out.

looking at this leaflet because I am nosy, and it says together we can reduce paper consumption, well don't send it to me in the first place . They don't know who I am, just my address and Dear Householder on it. A few years ago I put my address on a list that I did not want this stuff, and yet I still get it.

Anyway, it was just an observation,

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

A few years ago I put my address on a list that I did not want this stuff, and yet I still get it.

If delivered by Royal Mail you could try this page to see if your opt out is still active, you have to renew every 2 years.

Other companies also deliver leaflets however, and unless you can find whom they are, hard to opt out.

Edited by jchamier (Sun 19-Nov-23 13:17:36)

About 12 years ago we took a holiday with one of the travel companies. Having declined marketing/junk mail it was annoying to receive this guff every few months even though I told them to remove our details as required by GDPR. I wrote again by recorded delivery but the half-inch thick A4 brochures still kept coming.

One day being extra grumpy I sent a recorded delivery letter to the company secretary stating that we would apply a £25 disposal charge, and by sending such stuff they would be deemed to accept this charge. If necessary I would take court proceedings to collect the £25.

This did produce a reply. It seems that we had been entered twice on their listings having taken two holidays in previous years. These days, being older but no less grumpy, I drop such rubbish into the big blue bin provided by our local council.