\nIn the past 2 or 3 weeks I have received junk mail about parenting or children’s products from three different advertisers.\n<\/p>\n
\nI have never before heard of nor been in contact with any of these companies. All of them have my address in the exact same format, and that is a format that I never use when asked for my address (spelling out the word “flat” and putting the flat number on a separate row). So I can be reasonably sure that my address hasn’t been sold by some unscrupulous company that I have purchased maternity or baby goods from.\n<\/p>\n
\nOn the other hand, the format matches the “official” address for this flat – as used by Inland Revenue, the local council etc. Very fishy. I strongly suspect that the local council has somehow been informed of my pregnancy – probably via the hospital or the clinic – and now they think they’re doing me a service by selling or giving my address details to companies they deem deserving.\n<\/p>\n
\nFurther strengthening this suspicion is the fact that the junk mail has been for one parenting magazine, one children’s book club, and (the latest) a language course for children that is somehow associated with the BBC. All “worthy” educational stuff, just the kind of thing that the local council would push in the belief that they know better – especially in a part of town with a high concentration of immigrants.\n<\/p>\n
\nAs most junk mail, the fact that it has been pushed to me without any request from my side is annoying enough. It is even more annoying that all these products are completely irrelevant to me – heck, I don’t even have a baby yet, even less one who’s old enough for book clubs! And if this is what I get before the baby has been born, how many will they send me later?\n<\/p>\n
\nI replied to the first two and asked them to remove me from their mailing lists. It looks like that is pointless; if this is to stop then I’II need to go straight to the root and find out where they got my address from. Which they will probably refuse to tell me; and if they do, and it’s the local council, they will probably ignore me completely. I foresee an endless flood of junk mail for as long as I live here…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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