Article: Junk Mail: Printed Ephemera and Preservation of the Everyday.

Everybody has received junk mail at some time. Brochures, leaflets, pamphlets, flyers advertising for shops, fitness classes, diets, real estate agents, take away food, local community events, government services, and seasonal events such as Christmas, Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day. They can be stuffed into letter boxes, left under door mats, slipped into the morning newspaper, or jammed under windscreen wipers.(1)

Junk mail is variously regarded as a useful source of information, as something to pin on the home notice board for future reference, or as a reminder to shop at a certain outlet for a bargain. More commonly, however, junk mail is regarded as a ...

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