Has anyone used the Mailing Preference Service (MPS) to limit the amount of advertising mail they receive? If so was it successful

I have used it and it has stopped the unrelated rubbish except Monday's unaddressed pile via the Royal Mail delivery.

However, I am fed up with the pile I get on Mondays. But not today when I have received no mail at all.

I also use the system that stops telephone calls. However, some callers just ignore this anyway.

No I haven't but I may well consider it if others say it is worth doing....get so much junk mail and it all goes in the recycling bag...an absolute waste!

I told my parents about it and they looked into it. They haven't seen a change though to be honest. My mum gets really fed up with the silly adverts and spam constantly coming through the door. I'm with Frenchwoodgirl though, it's such a waste of paper, it all just goes back into the recycling box where it takes time and money to print the same garbage!!

Yes I used it a while ago and found a slight improvement it doesn't stop the local snow flurry every week though. I also find that you have to renew your request from time to time to get the best out of it.

We did the same thing and certain mail still slipped through the net. We haven't complained about it because it the companies that have this control not the MPS.

Now we just for some reason only receive mail that isn't addressed to our names or "To the householder"

It works for a while but the rubbish gradually creeps back in.

I have to say i havent tried it with the post, have registered with TPS though. Sometimes we dont get any post for 2 or 3 days and when we do its usually bills! We do get some junk but nothing major. Sometime we get things from companies offering things - like LLoyds TSB did - they were asking for me to take out a new credit card that i didnt want so i took out the info with my details and posted all the other stuff back to them - if enough people did it - it might stop them sending it out. Plus they open it thinking they have got someone signed up when all they get is the leaflets that were originally enclosed!

I signed up to the Telephone Preference Service, but haven't signed up to the Mail one.

The TPS has done nothing. I still get just as many scam/sale phonecalls, and even telling people that you're on the TPS doesn't deter them.

I am not inundated with junk mail surprisingly but I am registered with the TPS as I hate being disturbed with stupid questions and sales people when I am doing something. Even so a few do get through. I have a sticker on the door but people still knock and try to sell me something, usually utilities.

Yes I have. Still get some mail from royal mail themselves! I also registered with TPS and that has seemed to work. We dont get any sales calls from the uk, every now and them we get one from abroad, but thats not covered in the tps

I registered with TPS several years ago and was pleased with the result, any odd call coming through I very quickly informed them that I was registered with TPS and wished to be taken off their database, and it worked for me. You do though have to re-register again after some time to be call free, well almost!