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Launton Lines Issue 284 July 2024
The “Junk Mail” question
Following the report in last month’s issue about the email we’d received demanding that we do not deliver Launton Lines to addresses with “No Junk Mail” notices, there was considerable response on village Facebook pages, and from the online survey we set up for readers to vote on the question.
The Facebook response supported our view (If the sender gave us an address we’d stop delivering, but in the absence of an address we won’t stop delivering to all addresses with the notice, and we’d be informed by the results of the online survey). One response said, “I’ve got a ‘No Junk Mail’ notice but please continue to deliver”, and a number said they didn’t regard Launton Lines as junk mail.
The online survey had 27 responses as at 26 June. There was only one vote for “No, don’t deliver it”. The pie chart below shows the results. The survey will remain open for a few weeks more: to vote, go to the following url: https://tinyurl.com/lldeliver
So we will continue to deliver to houses with “No Junk Mail” notices, unless they provide us with an address, and agree to update their request annually.
We are currently working on a larger reader survey: watch out for it later in the year.
By the way, I am even more convinced that the original email came from a spam site. It just doesn’t read like a human is behind it.
Robert Cornford, Editor
