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

[19sixtysix]

Have the sun not got a PO box I can send it back to?

All mail just needs marked return to sender. It's royal mail's problem then. Teach 'em they shouldn't do cheap deals with Murdoch.

 

[Badgers]

Had a bit of a think and I reckon that posting it in the nearest Royal Mail letterbox is the best action

 

[Badgers]

Had a bit of a think and I reckon that posting it in the nearest Royal Mail letterbox is the best action

Edit - Beaten to it:

I'm assuming the paper will not be addressed, just shoved through with all the usual pizza/kebab shit? Anyhow, the private corporation that has taken the contract from the newspaper conveniently has plenty of "drop-off points" where the unwanted rag can be returned.

 

[brogdale]

Edit - Beaten to it:

Yeah, fuck 'em. The posties might just get some overtime to shovel all the shit away...and the corporation might just think about it next time.

 

[brogdale]

No "page 3" in the postal version...apparently. How interesting that they regard it as inappropriate for postal delivery.

 

[Awesome Wells]

No "page 3" in the postal version...apparently. How interesting that they regard it as inappropriate for postal delivery.

So not even good for a wank then?

Over some 18yo wide eyed exploited girl used as a poster girl for wahtever agenda the Scum are pushing that day.

Sophie, 18 from Rotherham says: "Academies are a wonderful idea, and i've got a couple of tips for that lovely Mr Gove! I think glasses are sexy! Howay the lads!"

 

[brogdale]

Postal workers in west Lancashire have said they will walk out if they are made to deliver free promotional copies of The Sun later this week. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-27761336

Good for them. Though there are probably a good many other 'victims' of NI who will be less than chuffed to see the rag pop through their door. Perhaps the paps will be on hand to catch the look of delight spread across the faces of the Dowlers as they open the door to postie and receive their promotional copy.

 

[ska invita]

From a Liverpool forum:
Stick it in a large envelope with something heavy (but nothing wet, dangerous or illegal - slates, bits of brick rubble and household waste are all good) and send it to them unstamped, so they have to pay for the postage.
Return address is:
Customer Services,
News Corp UK and Ireland Limited
3 Thomas More Square,
London E98 1RL

 

[butchersapron]

They can't be hit financially - better to organise and publicise a public burning in a park or something - that way you'll get other papers etc on the case - that's what i'm going to try and get rolling here later today. Make it a social collective response rather than that of a series of individual actions.

 

[19sixtysix]

They can't be hit financially - better to organise and publicise a public burning in a park or something - that way you'll get other papers etc on the case - that's what i'm going to try and get rolling here later today. Make it a social collective response rather than that of a series of individual actions.

But idiots like Royal Mail can. He'll be paying much less than a first class stamp that we are forced to buy if we might just about get something delivered on a day of choice.

Mark it RTS and stick in a post box.

 

[butchersapron]

But idiots like Royal Mail can. He'll be paying much less than a first class stamp that we are forced to buy if we might just about get something delivered on a day of choice.

Mark it RTS and stick in a post box.

So turn an anti-sun action into an anti-RM action? RM are amply covered by their abuse of the freepost clauses - as the UKIP debacle showed. Why spurn the chance of a collective response and the opp to make local links in favour of an atomised ineffective response? Pointless. The sun are practically dropping this opportunity in our laps.

 

[19sixtysix]

So turn an anti-sun action into an anti-RM action? RM are amply covered by their abuse of the freepost clauses - as the UKIP debacle showed. Why spurn the chance of a collective response and the opp to make local links in favour of an atomised ineffective response? Pointless. The sun are practically dropping this opportunity in our laps.

Soz hadn't seen the return address above. Much better

 

[butchersapron]

But the beautiful – that is the ugly – thing is this: that instead of asking for money from the bourgeois class to support it in its pitiless work in its favor, the bourgeois newspapers manage to be paid by...the same laboring classes that they always combat. And the laboring class pays; punctually, generously.

Hundreds of thousands of workers regularly and daily give their pennies to the bourgeois newspapers, thus assisting in creating their power. Why? If you were to ask this of the first worker you were to see on the tram or the street with a bourgeois paper spread before him you would hear: “Because I need to hear about what happening.” And it would never enter his head that the news and the ingredients with which it is cooked are exposed with an art that guides his ideas and influences his spirit in a given direction. And yet he knows that this newspaper is opportunist, and that one is for the rich, that the third, the fourth, the fifth is tied to political groups with interests diametrically opposed to his.

And so every day this same worker is able to personally see that the bourgeois newspapers tell even the simplest of facts in a way that favors the bourgeois class and damns the working class and its politics. Has a strike broken out? The workers are always wrong as far as the bourgeois newspapers are concerned. Is there a demonstration? The demonstrators are always wrong, solely because they are workers they are always hotheads, rioters, hoodlums. The government passes a law? It’s always good, useful and just, even if it’s...not. And if there’s an electoral, political or administrative struggle? The best programs and candidates are always those of the bourgeois parties.

And we’re aren’t even talking about all the facts that the bourgeois newspapers either keep quiet about, or travesty, or falsify in order to mislead, delude or maintain in ignorance the laboring public. Despite this, the culpable acquiescence of the worker to the bourgeois newspapers is limitless. We have to react against this and recall the worker to the correct evaluation of reality. We have to say and repeat that the pennies tossed there distractedly into the hands of the newsboy are projectiles granted to a bourgeois newspaper, which will hurl it, at the opportune moment, against the working masses.

If the workers were to be persuaded of this most elementary of truths they would learn to boycott the bourgeois press with the same unity and discipline that the bourgeoisie boycott the newspapers of the workers, that is, the Socialist press. Don’t give financial assistance to the bourgeois press, which is your adversary. This is what should be our battle cry in this moment that is characterized by the subscription campaigns of all the bourgeois newspapers. Boycott them, boycott them, boycott them!

e2a better give the due-Gramsci.

God, that's hideous sounds like taffboy with a firmer grasp of rhetoric. recall the worker to the correct evaluation of reality - ugh!

 

[nino_savatte]

I'm going to put a sign on my door that reads "Please don't deliver The Sun to this address. It's not even good enough to be used as bog roll".

 

[19sixtysix]

Have the sun not got a PO box I can send it back to?

From a Liverpool forum:
Stick it in a large envelope with something heavy (but nothing wet, dangerous or illegal - slates, bits of brick rubble and household waste are all good) and send it to them unstamped, so they have to pay for the postage.
Return address is:
Customer Services,
News Corp UK and Ireland Limited
3 Thomas More Square,
London E98 1RL

 

[DotCommunist]

God, that's hideous sounds like taffboy with a firmer grasp of rhetoric. recall the worker to the correct evaluation of reality - ugh!

unity and discipline

 

[el-ahrairah]

You don't have to be a LFC fan to show solidarity with them, their wider community, and the class generally.

i fucking hate Liverpool FC as a football club, but i stand in solidarity with their fans when it comes to Hillsborough, class, and community. football allegiances and prejudices should not be allowed to interfere with solidarity and the pursuit of justice.

 

[5t3IIa]

I can't wait to get mine! I haven't read it in years and have no idea what The Sun is up to any more, so it's good to get a free copy for research purposes.

Will there be a wallchart?

 

[juice_terry]

My copy will be getting burned

 

[trabuquera]

If I can't post it back and cost Murdoch some money then I may:
spit on it
kick it around the house
jump up and down on it
get the cat to shred it into 100000000000 pieces
or leave it to rot in the most neglected corner of the garden.

 

[Idris2002]

My copy will be getting burned

Where you start by burning books, you will end by burning people - RUPERT MURDOCH, TO THE BARBECUE!

 

[pesh]

seems like in mid 2012 The Sun gave away a load of dodgy hairdryers and last month it came to light that they may kill you, as such they have been recalled and The Sun announced a freepost address...

The Sun Hairdryer Returns,
FREEPOST, ANG 2640,
Colchester, CO2 8BR.

more details here...
http://www.fifedirect.org.uk/topics...&themeid=774CCC0C-0B1C-4ACC-9520-08DA18BAE94F

2-4kg is the sweet spot for freepost parcels and costs the receiver £9.53 + VAT

 

[Badgers]

Good spot pesh wonder if it is still good to go?

 

[pesh]

it was only announced 3 weeks ago so i imagine it's still good...

 

[DotCommunist]

it was in the Eye last month iirc, early part of. There was details as to the source of the dryers that was dodgy/humorous.

 

[Dogsauce]

It'll probably be the company that made them picking up the tab for that - does the Sun have any base in Colchester?

 

[Wilf]

The public burning is a good idea, in fact the same idea occurred to me. Only thing is is could look incredibly shit if there's only a tiny pile of 'em. It would need a lot of twittering and facebooking over the next 2 days. Maybe bulk the whole thing out with a mass burning of the sun + assorted other junkmail. Not very environmental, but fuck that for one day.

 

[butchersapron]

The public burning is a good idea, in fact the same idea occurred to me. Only thing is is could look incredibly shit if there's only a tiny pile of 'em. It would need a lot of twittering and facebooking over the next 2 days. Maybe bulk the whole thing out with a mass burning of the sun + assorted other junkmail. Not very environmental, but fuck that for one day.

The thing is only a mini-sun as well. It'll be full of full page ads (300 grand for this vs 35 for a normal edition). There's no real financial hit to anyone at all, so we can at least try something else - unlikely to come off, but who knows...

 

[DotCommunist]

The public burning is a good idea, in fact the same idea occurred to me. Only thing is is could look incredibly shit if there's only a tiny pile of 'em. It would need a lot of twittering and facebooking over the next 2 days. Maybe bulk the whole thing out with a mass burning of the sun + assorted other junkmail. Not very environmental, but fuck that for one day.

you only get a copy to burn for warmth if you can do at least one verse from 'God Save The Queen'

 

[Chilli.s]

A free copy of The Sun, tbh would prefer a proper comic like The Beano or Dandy.