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• Advertising by post: nobody wants this | Letters

  29-12-2025 18:44
  Daniel Owen would welcome the demise of postal marketing, while Marlene McAndrew asks why charities repeatedly send appeals to the same peopleI am prepared to accept the demise of letter writing discussed in your editorial (The Guardian view on sending letters: the writing’s on the wall, 22 December) if it also means the abolition of all forms of postal marketing.In an online age, the obscene environmental cost alone of printing and distributing large volumes of paper material, 99% of
  
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• Gambling firms spent nearly £5m to advertise on TfL since London mayor’s ban pledge

  29-12-2025 06:00
  Sadiq Khan’s office blames delay on lack of government guidance on links between gambling ads and harmGambling companies have spent nearly £5m to advertise on the London transport network since Sadiq Khan pledged to stop them from doing so, amid a prolonged impasse between the mayor’s office and the government.Khan said during his 2021 mayoral election campaign that he would order Transport for London (TfL) to extend a ban on junk food ads to cover online casinos and bookmakers
  
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