They are useless (at least my mailbox is always full to the brim with reklammen, so…).
Well depends on your postal guy, but political papers they are obligated to throw into everyones box, as they are not “publicity” but political “toilet lecture” as i call it
Political mail is not junk mail. Do you want a functioning democracy 🙂
I think that the postman respects your sticker and doesnt throw in those bs pamphlets. Most of these publicity junk is thrown into your mailbox by the restaurants and companies themselves… its really annoying. Plus it creates a whole lot of waste because nobody reads it…
Political advertising is exempt from certain regulations.
For the same reason, you can have billboards on the roadside for parties where no other advertising is allowed and why on tv and radio, political ads are always presented with a disclaimer beforehand telling the audience that this is in fact a political ad. So the ‘no commercials’ sticker only applies to actual ‘commerces’ so to speak, not political parties etc.
The balcony of my previous apartment used to face our postbox.
I saw persons just driving in with a bunch of papers (usually on weekday afternoons) and putting them into every post box not even looking for the resident’s name/keng reclammen stickers or anything else for that matter.
Usually, they were done dumping their crap into the postboxes (around 20 in the apartment) within <5minutes, and would move to the next block to do the same.
It’s only the post person who has to respect that sticker, for other people it’s merely a suggestion. They don’t care because they don’t think that you’re going to take them to court because of a single leaflet.
I agree that it’s a nuisance. That and the small card car dealers put into your car window. IIRC that’s even illegal.
Decoration
What annoys me more is that they misspelled “Paella”…
Probably need to leave shaming stickers on my mail box next.
“Don’t leave spam”
“I will trash your spammy adverts”
“Yes you”
“You’re still leaving them? For shame”
It depends on what is defined as information and what is considered advertisement by your mailman and even then, private citizens can just throw stuff into your mailbox so yea, the sticker doesn’t do much
Pamphlets are most often not distributed by the postman and not classified as ads. I’m active in the Scouts and used to be with the firefighters. Things like flyers for the Buergbrennen or bags for old cloths collections get distributed by volunteers and don’t count as advertisement but as public announcements, thus they land in every mailbox.
Complain to the CNPD – they also handle these complaints.
I mean, missing that paella party would have been sad
Only if more people knew what ‘keng reklammen’ meant. I only started to learn Luxembourgish recently and got to know what it is.
#FreeFood is not Reklamm
I register everyone who puts “reklammen”, dispite 2 Stickers, in my mailbox, on porn and viagra sites.
Revenge of the little man
Captain here. Both distributors (not only Post, but anyone) and editors have to comply with this sign.
There is a major exception for municipalities, government, non-profit, political and other non-commercial entities. What is strange is that this exception is not in the law but is in some contextual documents that you can find in the website of the chamber related to this law.
Also strangely, for purely commercial stuff, such as restaurant menus or fitness clubs, violating this article has no consequence from the regulator (ILR).
check article 43
The only way out is to go to court and ask for compensation. You can claim 1 euro, but it’s easy to win the case and the company will have to pay the judical fees, and maybe learn a valuable lesson.
Better question yet, where or how can i get such a sticker?
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They are useless (at least my mailbox is always full to the brim with reklammen, so…).
Well depends on your postal guy, but political papers they are obligated to throw into everyones box, as they are not “publicity” but political “toilet lecture” as i call it
Political mail is not junk mail. Do you want a functioning democracy 🙂
I think that the postman respects your sticker and doesnt throw in those bs pamphlets. Most of these publicity junk is thrown into your mailbox by the restaurants and companies themselves… its really annoying. Plus it creates a whole lot of waste because nobody reads it…
Political advertising is exempt from certain regulations.
For the same reason, you can have billboards on the roadside for parties where no other advertising is allowed and why on tv and radio, political ads are always presented with a disclaimer beforehand telling the audience that this is in fact a political ad. So the ‘no commercials’ sticker only applies to actual ‘commerces’ so to speak, not political parties etc.
The balcony of my previous apartment used to face our postbox.
I saw persons just driving in with a bunch of papers (usually on weekday afternoons) and putting them into every post box not even looking for the resident’s name/keng reclammen stickers or anything else for that matter.
Usually, they were done dumping their crap into the postboxes (around 20 in the apartment) within <5minutes, and would move to the next block to do the same.
It’s only the post person who has to respect that sticker, for other people it’s merely a suggestion. They don’t care because they don’t think that you’re going to take them to court because of a single leaflet.
I agree that it’s a nuisance. That and the small card car dealers put into your car window. IIRC that’s even illegal.
Decoration
What annoys me more is that they misspelled “Paella”…
Probably need to leave shaming stickers on my mail box next.
“Don’t leave spam”
“I will trash your spammy adverts”
“Yes you”
“You’re still leaving them? For shame”
It depends on what is defined as information and what is considered advertisement by your mailman and even then, private citizens can just throw stuff into your mailbox so yea, the sticker doesn’t do much
Pamphlets are most often not distributed by the postman and not classified as ads. I’m active in the Scouts and used to be with the firefighters. Things like flyers for the Buergbrennen or bags for old cloths collections get distributed by volunteers and don’t count as advertisement but as public announcements, thus they land in every mailbox.
Complain to the CNPD – they also handle these complaints.
I mean, missing that paella party would have been sad
Only if more people knew what ‘keng reklammen’ meant. I only started to learn Luxembourgish recently and got to know what it is.
#FreeFood is not Reklamm
I register everyone who puts “reklammen”, dispite 2 Stickers, in my mailbox, on porn and viagra sites.
Revenge of the little man
Captain here. Both distributors (not only Post, but anyone) and editors have to comply with this sign.
https://legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/loi/2012/12/26/n6/jo
check article 13 (2)
There is a major exception for municipalities, government, non-profit, political and other non-commercial entities. What is strange is that this exception is not in the law but is in some contextual documents that you can find in the website of the chamber related to this law.
Also strangely, for purely commercial stuff, such as restaurant menus or fitness clubs, violating this article has no consequence from the regulator (ILR).
check article 43
The only way out is to go to court and ask for compensation. You can claim 1 euro, but it’s easy to win the case and the company will have to pay the judical fees, and maybe learn a valuable lesson.
Better question yet, where or how can i get such a sticker?
http://shop.meco.lu/produkt/keng-reklammen-w-e-g/