In reply to a post by jchamier:

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.

Oh right, I did not realise it had to be renewed every couple of years, I suppose that makes sense as I may have moved out and someone else may be living here. Royal Mail are the only ones that deliver addressed leaflets around here

In reply to a post by Malwaremike:

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.

Getting older normally makes people more grumpy
To be honest, I normally just chuck it into the rubbish as well, the original post was not meant to be taken so seriously, but it amused me that they don't seem to do their homework.
But I suppose that is normal these days.

It’s probably more expensive to work out who to target leaflets to then just distributing them generally.

So are you gonna sign up or not?

In reply to a post by spile:

Quite. It makes no financial sense for companies who use bulk mailings to not post them to every one. It’s why those living in bungalows get leaflets for stairlifts.

or conservatories when they live in a block of flats. And of course loft installation discounts.

In reply to a post by Alucidnation:

So are you gonna sign up or not?

Hell no. for a couple of reasons.
(1) I am already in a contract with a provider until next year
(2) I vowed not to go back to BT, over 14 years ago.

and maybe one more reason, now I am off the openreach network I want to try and stay off it. the network I am on, seems to be behaving itself now