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Petition update, 08 July 2008

More details from petition creator

At present, the good people of Britain have to do at least six different things to reduce the amount of unwanted advertisements they receive. Years of self-regulation by the direct marketing industry has not made it any easier for people to stop junk mail and the amount of junk posted through people’s letterboxes is increasing year by year.

The British Government should therefore ‘go Dutch’ and introduce a simple and effective system of opting out of junk mail, similar to the highly successful scheme introduced in the Netherlands in 1994. In Holland, people register with the Mailing Preference Service to stop all (and not just some) addressed advertisements and to put a stop to all unaddressed junk mail the Dutch can get a readily available ‘no junk mail’ sticker.

Introducing such a system will put an end to unwanted advertisements, reduce waste and save trees.

Current signatories

Robert Rijkhoff, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Richard Stretton
• L MacDonald
• J RICHARDS
• Lesley Giggins
• John Talbot
• G. Bolgar
• Philip Horsley
• Anne Tyndall
• Carol Ackroyd
• John Wood
• K Stanley
• brian pearson
• Dick King
• S King
• Eric Hartup
• Stephen Talbot
• Ernie Couchman
• Richard Pelling
• John Smith
• Andrew Main
• Lucy Handley
• Mary Locke
• Gino Mendoza
• Katie Hall
• Frank Oxley
• peter chacksfield
• D Newman
• D Smart
• wendy parkinson
• Steve Bassett
• Matt
• jacky ryan
• Ben Parish
• David Fish
• Georgia Havers
• Peter McDade
• Allan Spencer
• Arthur Priest
• Nick Glover
• Ray Robertson
• Myk Williams
• Georgina Summers
• Eloise O Hare
• Andrew Lewis
• Mr. R. T. Griffiths
• Kim
• Geoff Long
• Sophie Scozzi
• David M Yardley
• James Wilson
• Penny Bartlett
• PHIL BARKER
• meraline acton
• Robert Miles
• Josephine Pridmore
• sandy wrigley
• SOLVEIGA LIEGIS-JOHNSTON
• Jean Kay
• Susan Laidlaw
• Sue Bithell
• AGNES MOODIE
• Brenda Clarke
• M. J. Nobbs
• Christopher Winton
• Simon Abbott
• Hannah Cooper
• Maralyn Marlow
• Fiona Elliston
• Morwenna J. Morgan
• Christopher Nicholls
• Bharat Chandra
• Dawn Farnes
• Jeanette Dellow
• Barry Hilton
• Judy McKay
• Timothy White
• ian bisset
• richard nutt
• Margaret King
• Thomas Norrell
• Ian Proud
• Cllr Philip Booth
• Grant Malcolm Burgess
• Ian Johnson
• Martin Wimpenny
• carol palmer
• derek swabey
• isobel smith
• DAVID KINGE
• clive bishop
• Steven Gabb
• Katy Garlington
• stacey sweet
• Geoffrey Wilcox
• Ray Spicer
• Sally Nunn
• Marion Dawson
• Ericka Tazi
• Karen Etherington
• antony trimikliniotis
• Michael Harper Bsc
• Stephen Cunningham
• Andrew Sabourin
• Paul Fitzgibbon
• Eric Allen
• jo glass
• Nathan Seinen
• Nanette Nielsen
• Duncan Mackay
• Ashley Thomas
• Sarah Follmann
• Joe Connor
• Kirsten Miller
• Wendy Malocco
• Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
• Laura Vesty
• Jenny Lilleyman
• Peter Lonton
• Paul M Furley
• heather colville
• Sean Dunn
• Roz Carr
• ela kotecha
• Howard Wilkinson
• Susan Lees
• Cheeragi Patel
• Antonia Page
• Natalie Dillon
• Chris Clarke
• Helen Higgs
• Ralph Higgs
• E Sanders
• paul paddison
• Adrian Game
• Mandy Thomas
• Paul Rydzyk
• Tim Evans
• Aram Simonian
• Nicholas Philipps Jones
• louis johnson
• S Simpson
• Peter D'Silva
• Anastasia Bird
• J. Spencer
• Michael Liversedge
• Theresa Bates
• Karine Allison
• Tony Lord
• Anthony Stevens
• Tracey Stevens
• Richard Parker
• Aideen Whelehan
• Chris.Forster
• Steve Fountain
• Dionne Russell
• Richard Henderson
• Sharon Jacobsen
• merle prewett
• LINDA CLELLAND
• Margaret Qualters
• luc clayton
• Matt Chapman
• Lesley beale
• Lesley Bailey
• Fiona M. McKenzie
• Catherine Douglas
• Ryan Briggs
• jane mccracken
• miss c adams
• Martin Smith
• meg hailes
• David Foster
• Daniel Weir
• R Walker
• Richard Seamon
• michael john
• C Jackson
• Charlotte Dew
• lisa sayer
• David Navin
• Sheree Scott
• Richard Hart
• Patrick Cleary
• John Harvey
• stuart robertson
• E.Sipoviciute
• rosie hemsley
• dave hemsley
• Paul Gladwin
• John Chivers
• Joshua Pringle
• Kate Eyre
• A Travis
• Lisa Burch
• Nick Street
• Tendai Nyabango
• Paul Smith
• lynda briggs
• Jacqueline Ball
• S Meyer
• Amy Beardmore
• John Malby
• Siobhan Bodin
• Karin Chilton
• Susan Shah
• Jonathan Preston
• Neil Finlayson
• Alison Smith
• Shona Docherty
• Zoe Bastin
• Tim Hartley
• Edwina Dunn
• Matt Gardner
• Sue Robinson
• John Holden (petitions.pm.gov.uk/Thereisnogod)
• Scott Moran
• K Miles
• Elizabeth Pattinson
• John Mitchell
• Amanda Rothwell
• Lynda Edwards
• Sara Jane Ingram
• Reece Brown
• Audrey Walton
• vinod vasan
• David Brennan
• Jennifer Sibley
• John Challis
• Ian Jolliffe
• Dave Dunford
• Nalin Raichura
• A Petts
• Dan Caldon
• Nigel Freeman
• Beryl Freeman
• Guy Aust
• Christine J Smith
• Amy Town
• t r healey
• Thomas Spencer
• Liz Freeman
• Laurie Wright
• Yorkie
• Stuart McKears
• JENNIFER LENTON
• Robert T Aston
• PETER HOWARD
• Peter Burkimsher
• Andrew Sowden