What will you do with your free copy of The Sun this Thursday?

[yardbird]

I am tempted to get a budgie and cage for two reasons.
#1 - So that I have someone to talk to.
#2 - So that I can use the bottom of the cage to put offensive material to good use.

 

[maomao]

There's something wrong with that Freepost address. E98 1XY is slap bang in the middle of the old News International site which is boarded up and being demolished atm, redevelopment into "London Dock" residential, bars and restaurants underway. 3 Thomas More Square are offices just off Thomas More Street, a short walk away but definitely not that postcode.

As far as I know all E98 stuff gets handed over to the same post room and the physical location of the second part of the postcode doesn't matter to the post office so it doesn't tend to get updated on maps. E98 postcodes have always been a bit confusing for working out geographic locations.

 

[Chilli.s]

Got my free copy!

In the end was really looking forward to it, it's been years since Iv seen it.

What a disappointment 30 seconds of flip through the 6 or so sheets. It has nothing to offer, brings nothing new or exciting. Trash.

The only good thing is they spent loads on this to show their irrelevance to everybody.

 

[eatmorecheese]

Now, this could be interesting...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/12/the-sun-world-cup-2014-_n_5488031.html

Labour MP Tom Watson has launched a campaign against the paper's promotional efforts. He told the Huffington Post UK that he has been left "overwhelmed" by the support he has received.

The MP for West Bromwich East has now contacted the Royal Mail and Attorney General highlighting a possible breach of the Printers Imprint Act of 1961 and the Newspapers, Printers, and Reading Rooms Repeal Act 1869, asking for further investigation of the issue.

According to a letter sent by Mr Watson, copies of the paper apparently lack a legally required imprint which shows basic address and contact details of the Sun’s printer – with 22 million copies at up to £50 fine per copy, that’s a fine of up to £1.1 Billion.

Things never quite work out like this, but it would make my decade if it did

 

[maomao]

The only good thing is they spent loads on this to show their irrelevance to everybody.

Doubt it cost them that much at all. The advertising space in a paper that went out to 20 million homes must have been rather lucrative.

 

[J Ed]

Now, this could be interesting...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/12/the-sun-world-cup-2014-_n_5488031.html



Things never quite work out like this, but it would make my decade if it did

It might be old news now but I 100% recommend Tom Watson's Dial M for Murdoch, I think it's actually more incredible to read now that things have returned to the status quo between Murdoch and the politicians.

 

[8ball]

I thought I hadn't got one but found one in the recycling. Might try the Freepost anyway since it still hassles the now private 'Royal Mail'.

 

[Guineveretoo]

Well, it's now the third day, and I didn't get one, so it looks like something worked

 

[Frances Lengel]

I didn't get one either. Bit gutted TBH - I was going to pretend to be really impressed by it to the extent that I was going to place an order with the local paper shop on the strength of it.

 

[eoin_k]

Has anyone posted this one yet?:

 

[brogdale]

Courtesy Mr Bone...

 

[GarethG]

Merseyside postcodes excluded, we're all getting a copy of The Scum through the post on Thursday. I have no plans to read it, but just as Foxtons' 'for sale' boards have been put to good use and made into plant boxes, I'd like to hear alternatives to it going straight into the recycling bin. Perhaps we could build the world's biggest paper effigy, depicting Rupert Murdoch, and set it alight?

A fucking waste of paper and energy anyway.

Send it back, free, to Royal Mail Door-to-Door, with a covering letter telling them how angry you are (feel free to adapt the text below). If you didn’t receive a copy of the Sun or you’ve thrown it away, you can still use the Freepost address to complain. The address is:

Steve Taylor, Operational Administrator
Freepost RSTR-YCYS-TGLJ
Royal Mail Door to Door Opt Outs
Kingsmead House
Oxpens Road
OXFORD OX1 1AA

You can also phone them for free on 0800 169 1194 – ask for Steve Taylor, or make a complaint to whoever answers. Be firm and polite.

My letter said:
“Dear Steve

Oh dear! I am in possession of a promotional copy of the Sun, which was delivered to my house by your staff.

I really like my postman and the other Royal Mail delivery staff that I meet, so this is not a complaint about them. It is a complaint about your organisation.

I’m not sure what the Sun is; is it actually a ‘newspaper’? To my mind it is misogynistic, sexist, right-wing rubbish. The organisation that produces it, News International, is rightly reviled by many thousands of people for its page 3 crap, its lies after the Hillsborough disaster, and of course for hacking a dead schoolgirl’s mobile phone. I certainly don’t want this copy of the Sun, so I’m returning it to you.

When you create business relationships with vile organisations like News International, you have to accept that people will respond, complain, and of course go elsewhere when they’re looking for couriers and delivery companies. My eBay sales will now go through a different courier, not through Royal Mail, so that’s one long-term customer you have lost because of this.

With best wishes,

etc etc”

 

[weltweit]

Mine was collected this morning along with the rest of my recycling.

 

[kebabking]

we didn't get it. tragically. perhaps Worcester sorting office has a selection of new, giant papermaché dinosaurs....

 

[stethoscope]

I've not checked my post box since middle of last week

It's just been used to cover the floor whilst I re-pot a plant.

 

[nino_savatte]

I gave mine back to the postie with a curt "I don't want this".