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About the Stop Junk Mail Campaign
The Stop Junk Mail Campaign started as a local campaign under the name 'Think Green' in Norwich in 2004. The campaign was set up by Robert Rijkhoff, who is also the co-ordinator of Stop Junk Mail.
Having worked as a postman in the Netherlands for many years, Robert got so fed up with the amount of rubbish posted through his front door that he decided to start a campaign for a simple and effective system for opting out of junk mail, similar to a highly successful scheme introduced in the Netherlands in 1994.
The Dutch only need to do two simple things to stop junk mail. People register with the Mailing Preference Service to stop all (and not just some) addressed advertisements and use a readily available 'no junk mail' sticker to stop unaddressed advertisements and/or free newspapers.
The 'No/Yes', 'No/No' stickers we introduced in the UK are similar to ones used in Holland and many other European countries. They stop unaddressed junk mail and give people the option whether or not to receive free local newspapers. The first 1200 stickers produced in 2004 were sold in a matter of months. Because there was a growing demand for the stickers from people living in other parts of the UK, we launched the national Stop Junk Mail Campaign in January 2007.
Apart from advising people how they can reduce the amount of junk mail they receive and selling junk mail stickers, Stop Junk Mail continues to campaign for the introduction of an easy and effective opt-out system.