Sightline board chair and bane of Yellow Pages Jeanette Henderson wrote in about junk mail rules in the Netherlands. We can’t post photos in our comments section, so we’re adding it here.
“Your blog on junk mail . . . reminded me of the stickers I saw on postboxes in Amsterdam last year. . . . Here is one example.
Almost all postboxes have these stickers, from what I saw while we spent a few days there. I was fascinated. The stickers are either “Nee Ja” or “Nee Nee”. . . . Nee means don’t leave any general junk mail, and Ja means do leave the local community newspaper (and the second Nee means do not leave it).
Clearly we aren’t alone in our desire to curb junk mail.”
Hi Alan, Thanks for posting this!
I saw the stickers, too, and was curious. I translate DUTCH poetry, so it kind of a language thing….
“NEE-NEE-sticker: u krijgt geen reclamedrukwerk en geen huis-aan-huisbladen in uw brievenbus.”
NO-NO stickers: You will not receive UNADDRESSED commercial printed matter, and you will not receive UNADDRESSED advertisement newspapers.
“NEE-JA-sticker: u krijgt geen reclamedrukwerk in uw brievenbus, maar wel huis-aan-huisbladen.”
NO-YES You will not receive UNADDRESSED commercial printed matter, and you WILL receive UNADDRESSED advertisement newspapers.
IF THEY HAVE your address, however, you still get the junk mail.
Well, even in happy AMSTERDAM they manage to make living simply complicated… 🙂
Greetings from the WALLOWAS. [I work in Amsterdam, too.]
Cliff