I’m ready to simply accept the demise of letter writing mentioned in your editorial (The Guardian view on sending letters: the writing’s on the wall, 22 December) if it additionally means the abolition of all types of postal advertising.
In an internet age, the obscene environmental price alone of printing and distributing massive volumes of paper materials, 99% of which can go straight right into a recycling bin unread, ought to have induced the demise of this type of promoting years in the past. No one would miss it.
Daniel Owen
Torrington, Devon
Why do charities ship out their Christmas appeals repeatedly to the identical recipients? Throughout October and November, I obtained 10 mailings from Disaster – and presumably I’m not alone.
What quantity of its revenue covers the price of designing, printing, packing and posting these things to probably 1000’s of addresses? And does it imagine it will end in repeated donations?
Marlene McAndrew
London
