When piles of unsolicited mail and catalogues thud through the letterbox, ask yourself: how do they get your details and how can you stop it?
Do catalogues from companies you have never heard of regularly land with a thud on your doormat? These deliveries of junk mail may make you wonder how the senders got your name and address – and if your personal details are being shared without your say-so.
One Guardian Money reader got in touch after being inundated with unsolicited post which, she thinks, began when she ordered from fashion retailer Boden for the first time. Within weeks she was sent catalogues from more than a dozen other upmarket brands selling clothes, food and furniture, ranging from Me+Em to The Fold, Biscuiteers, Daylesford Organic and Loaf.
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