Article: Tide of junk mail on the rise; Messages getting through-study

Noticed your letterbox groaning with junk mail lately?

It is not just your imagination or the lead-up to Fathers' Day causing mailbox mayhem.

Christchurch is in the grips of a junk mail bonanza, with more companies bombarding our letterboxes with an increasing array of flyers, catalogues and free samples.

They see the mailbox as a way of speaking one-on-one with consumers, to push their products and influence spending decisions.

We are getting the message, and spending accordingly, if the latest national research is to be believed.

Barbara Anderson, 76, has a love- hate relationship with the advertising junk cluttering her Hillsborough mailbox.

She was provoked into writing a letter to ...

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