Junk Mail: Addressed to "The Owner"

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I have received 2 letters from Hibernian Insurance with my morning post. They are offering House Insurance and are signed by the manager of the local office. The letters are addressed to "The Owner" and then my address but not my name. They are offering a free coffee set with every new home policy. I think these letters are the same as junk mail on my email account. Are there any laws out there to protect us from this junk mail.
I have yet to get to speak to the manager.
I have my house and car insured with Hibernian but not through this office but when it is due for renewal I will have to reconsider if I will do business with them again.
I had this posted in Insurance but now think it is a consumer issue.
 
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ClubMan said:
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As I said in my post my name did not appear on the letters. They were addressed to "The Owner" and then my address.
If I had my name removed for unsolicited I dont think that would have stop me from getting these letters.
 
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I would have assumed that the IDMA would allow you to request the removal of your name and address from their lists?
 
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How do you know they're for you?

I'd write 'unknown at this address' on the envelope and throw it back in the post...
 
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One cannot blame An Post for delivering this mail. They get quite a lot of mail addressed to ''The Owner'' or ''The Occupier''. If there is a specific address on it and the item is paid for, An Post must deliver such mail -unless officially instructed otherwise by a recognised body.
I would not endorse it ''not known at this address.'' Better to be up front about it and mark it ''refused, return to sender.''
 
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Megan, Sorry to hear about this terrible event. Maybe you should ring the manager when your renewal comes up and ask him for a quote for your house insurance which may be lower than your own. If it is not tell him not to send you any more letters. Then relax and try to get over this saga.
 
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Dont worry money man I am a very relaxed person and I wouldnt think of it as a saga. Just posted to see what people thought about this type of post.
Why do you assume the manager is a man?. The manager is a woman.
 
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Sorry Megan. You sure cant catch a break. It was just a slip of the keyboard..ask them!!! ......relax
 
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Nice word Clubman.Yes i was. Going to try and drop it into conversation today at some point so someone might make the mistake of thinking im clever!!
 
Im not sure there are any regulations concerning junk mail addressed to "The Owner" or "The Residents". An Post themselves address some TV licence demands to "the resident". There was a thread here a few weeks ago concerning a postman in England who advised all the people on his route that they could opt out of Royal Mail delivered junk mail. He was suspended. Link.

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If the junk mail includes a pre-paid envelope, try saving up a large pile of your own junk mail and send it back to them (just sellotape the pre-paid envelope onto your large pile, which will hopefully be too big to fit in the little envelope) with a note asking them to remove your address from their mailing list. They'll be hit with the postage costs of the returned items, which might encourage them not to mess with you next time round.
 
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money man said:
.....someone might make the mistake of thinking im clever!!
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I doubt they'd ever make that mistake.

(If you only have 'smart' answers to offer the OP why bother getting involved?)
 
Why not just throw the offending paper in the bin. I get lots of junk mail, I throw it in the bin and I then get on with living my life.
 
I once had a temp job working in an insurance company and one of my many mind numbing jobs was to put different leaflets advertising home insurance or similar in to envelopes and post them out. When I enquired as to where they got all these names and addresses (my junk mail came complete with name) I was told that they were able to get the names and addresses of people who had recently secured planning permission and that they were entitled to do so under the Freedom of Information Act.

These names were supplied to us from somewhere else, they were not sourced in the office and so anybody who called the office to ask that they no longer receive such mail were effectively wasting their time.
 
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