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Nice! So announcing "Keine Werbung" on my letter box becomes now also a legal binding? I also wonder about all the announcement on t-shirts. Hmm.

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It always has been already for a long time.. (a "Keine Werbung" sticker is enough to indicate you don't want it)?!

https://dejure.org/gesetze/UWG/7.html

Sure, theory and practice and sueing offenders are all different things, however most obey that here I'd say?

In practice, "Keine Werbung" means "No advertisements except for moving services". These are the only ones that don't give a shit.

In my experience, it's food delivery services.

Outside Zürich, I see small-time car dealers, small-time precious metals dealers, delivered pizza and kebab from neighboring villages.

Perhaps advertisement is only something big companies do? /s

I wonder if there is a way to make them give a shit. A pizza place in my area is a serial offender, and I'm wondering if an Abmahnung and the threat of a fine would get them to stop.

Is is legally binding since the 80s in Germany. Just mostly nobody bothers to protest a occasional error and it would mostly affect the teenager who delivers the ads anyway.

https://dejure.org/dienste/vernetzung/rechtsprechung?Gericht...

> would mostly affect the teenager who delivers the ads anyway.

If their job is to litter, then tough luck.

It typically gets me some remorseful response and they actually manage to honor the signage for a year or two.

I also send nasty letters to parties who consider themselves exempt from that before elections (they're not).

It should … the “no ads” mailbox stickers are legally binding in Belgium. In fact, you can’t send mail spam to people without opt-in consent.

They are? Sure doesn't stop people from randomly dropping garbage ads in your mailbox.

You can at least dry out your shoes or lit fires with those ads. Unless the paper quality is too high ...

> So announcing "Keine Werbung" on my letter box

What pisses me off is that they advice to do the same in my country when I complain about leaflets from Lidl, Kaufland, Rossmann and others. Take your silly practices back to Germany, I don't need to label my postbox NOT TO RECEIVE your spam over here. "No spam" is the default without any label.

So you guys put stickers "hey I want spam" instead? The German practice doesn't look silly compared to that.

That's how newsletter subscriptions work on the internet.

Or, you know, you could just not have spam. Not in boxes with a label, not in boxes without a label. Just stop spamming. No "but what about ...", just stop spamming.

Oh god someone understands me, I have a climax.

What's silly about that? They go next to the "hey I want theft", "hey I want fraud", "hey I want arson" stickers.

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