Junk Mail

If you want to stop receiving junk mail, put a ‘NO JUNK MAIL’ sticker on your letterbox. These are available free of charge from Council's Help and Service Centre or from the Distribution Standards Board.

To stop junk mail that is addressed to a household resident, register with the Australian Direct Marketing Organisation.

If you still receive advertising mail you don’t want, call the Distribution Standards Board.

Australians receive an average of 8.2 billion unaddressed pieces of printed advertising in their letterboxes each year. By reducing junk mail we can reduce the production of high gloss paper.

Phone Directories

Each year 20.9 million phone directories are printed and distributed in Australia. Due to the increased use of online directories many of these are no longer needed and get thrown out. 

In Australia it is possible to request that phone directories are not printed and delivered to your house. If you no longer use hard copy telephone directories (Yellow and White Pages) and you would prefer not to receive them, you can cancel future book deliveries on the Directory Select website.

Cancelling 480 phone directories achieves the equivalent reduction in emissions as removing one car from the roads permanently.