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Stop advertisements from coming in the post?

Hi hi, my friend and I were both wondering whether there would be any possibility to stop all of the excessive advertisements from coming in – in our home countries, there are these stickers which say ‘no’ to advertising but I wonder whether this is also the case in Japan, or whether there is any other way of stopping these brochures and pamphlets from coming in? I already went to JP Post, and I might not have understood properly, but it seemed like they ‘could not distinguish between post,’ so I could not request a stop for advertisements. Many thanks 🙂

5 comments

  2. Yes, just buy one of the stickers on Amazon or in some local 百均. Works amazingly well, at least for me.

  3. JP can’t do anything because as they say there’s no way for them to tell if what they are being paid to deliver is important to you or not, even if it’s obviously advertisement.

    As for pamphlets they directly put in your mailbox they do sell “No ads” stickers/magnets here too but there are no blanket law that will penalize those who do. My apartment has a “No ads” sign at the entrance along with a trash bin, as a passive aggressive message to say “Your pamphlet will go straight to the trash” but considering they are distributed by part-timers who’s only objective is to shove the paper in the mailbox it’s completely ignored

  4. Even if you can’t find a sticker at the shop, just write ‘チラシ禁止’ on a piece of tape and stick it on. Other people in my building did it too. Usually don’t get anything.

  5. Or on the flip side:

    Save up all those brochures and burn them during Obon.
    Everyone will be burning stuff then anyway.
    Those brochures burn really well and sometimes make pretty colors.

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