Article: Advice helps to avoid junk mail ; Last year residents of the South West received an estimated 331million items of junk mail.

Last year residents of the South West received an estimated 331million items of junk mail.

It is also estimated that an additional 4.5 million pieces of junk mail were sent to dead people in the region.

The figures were released today by data asset management specialists the REaD Group.

The company's chief executive officer, Mark Roy, said: "Whilst the distress caused by these unsolicited mailings to grieving family members and friends is incalculable, these figures do, unfortunately, support earlier research undertaken by us which found that upwards of one-third of direct mail is regularly dispatched by companies without any name or ...

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