Deceased Preference Service - Useful or not?

[Martin Brown]

Does the "Deceased Preference Service" have any teeth?

http://www.deceasedpreferenceservice.co.uk/

And are there any organisations in the UK that actually honour it or is
it yet another useless toothless quango come chocolate fireguard?

My late father is still getting his full quota of personalised junk mail
three months after registering and the worst offenders by far are
charities and supermarkets. I won't name and shame them just yet.

Is there any enforcement available? It is getting pretty annoying.

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Regards,
Martin Brown

[Max Demian]

"Martin Brown" <|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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Can I register myself to stop the Post Office putting crap through my
letterbox, or will they stop delivering mail altogether?

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Max Demian

[Martin Brown]

Assuming that you are still alive you want this one called MPS:

http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/

It is supposed to stop some of it.

ISTR a Postie was disciplined for explaining how to do it to customers
on his round so it must be at least partially effective. Here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/5381606.stm

No idea if it is any better than the DPS as I have a solid fuel stove
and the junk mail comes in handy as kindling (although it generally
contains a bit too much kaolin for my liking).

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Regards,
Martin Brown

[Mike Scott]

I doubt it. nearly 11 months after the fact, I'm still returning vast
quantities of my dad's junk mail as 'deceased'. And yes, pretty well all
charities. None of whom now appears on my 'approved' list. Oh yes, his
name was registered with the DPS within a couple of days.


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Mike Scott (unet2 <at> [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk)
Harlow Essex England

[Peter Burke]

"Max Demian" <max_d...@bigfoot.com> wrote in
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> Can I register myself to stop the Post Office putting crap through my
> letterbox, or will they stop delivering mail altogether?
>

If you mean the unaddressed mail that Royal Mail are paid to spam you with
then they have an internal opt-out procedure. They send you a form which
you fill in and a marker is put on your pigeon hole in the mail rack
telling the sorter not to bloat your mailbox.

They try to discourage you from doing this, telling you that you may miss
out on important local gorverment or health related info that is also
delivered in this way.

This site sets out the pro's and cons, and describes the simplest ways to
contact them for an opt-out:

http://stopjunkmail.org.uk/guide/door_to_door_opt_out.php

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Pete

[Max Demian]

"Peter Burke" <n...@none.invalid> wrote in message
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> "Max Demian" <max_d...@bigfoot.com> wrote in
> news:cbel26...@mid.individual.net:
>
>> Can I register myself to stop the Post Office putting crap through my
>> letterbox, or will they stop delivering mail altogether?
>>
> If you mean the unaddressed mail that Royal Mail are paid to spam you with
> then they have an internal opt-out procedure. They send you a form which
> you fill in and a marker is put on your pigeon hole in the mail rack
> telling the sorter not to bloat your mailbox.

If an item (such as a leaflet) doesn't have an address, how does the postie
know which pigeon hole it's come from?

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Max Demian

[Martin Brown]

Most of the unaddressed stuff stamped "delivered by Royal Mail" which I
presume if given to them in bulk at the sorting office one per
household. The rest is addressed to the individual and their address
which is the most annoying problem for relatives of the deceased.

It is particularly annoying that some of the charities that deal with
the elderly are amongst the worst offenders. Although I accept it is
entirely possible that they prepare all their Xmas mailings at Easter.

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Regards,
Martin Brown

[Peter Burke]

"Max Demian" <max_d...@bigfoot.com> wrote in

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I'm not too fussed about the precise mechanism they use but you now know
the procedure they employ should you choose to use it.

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Pete

[Max Demian]

"Peter Burke" <n...@none.invalid> wrote in message

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I'm interested in the mechanism as I would be sceptical about a system with
an unknown mechanism.

I'm not personally bothered as I just recycle the junk.

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Max Demian

[bruce...@gmail.com]

I realise this thread is pretty ancient, but... "The Deceased Preference Service" is one of twenty companies that appear to be run by Matthew Ian Howells. I am currently - without success - trying to contact one his enterprises "The Indepenent Trust Corpration" to recover the original of my mother's will. My research strongly suggests that the whole of Howell's group is probably a scam. Certainly in my mother's case significant money was paid to ITC without any discernable benefit and has produced an unrecoverable will. I suspect that enrolling with the DPC will simply put your name and details onto other scammers lists. Beware!
Bruce