Is it legal for them to on sell your details? I made the mistake of trying to unsubscribe from an AD fax service one time, the faxes immediately tripled.

Kiteboydave, I completed a change of address/mail redirection thingy only a few weeks ago I'm pretty sure there is a box that clearly covers passing your details onto 'third party partners', is there any chance you filled the form in without reading it properly?

Chris6791 said..

Kiteboydave, I completed a change of address/mail redirection thingy only a few weeks ago I'm pretty sure there is a box that clearly covers passing your details onto 'third party partners', is there any chance you filled the form in without reading it properly?

I dunno. Looks like an 'opt in' not an 'opt out' option.


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[ ] I am happy for Australia Post to provide my new address to organisations that already know me.

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Kiteboy dave you should write to australia post and post up the outcome! could be very interesting....

ot massive fan cat amongst the pigeons shiraz. do you rate wineman?

myusernam said..
Kiteboy dave you should write to australia post and post up the outcome! could be very interesting....

I'm doing just that. Interestingly and somewhat ironically, filling in the "contact us" form involves all your details (mandatory) and then they have 2 Opt-In marketing boxes that you have to pass by just to contact them. Talk about opportunistic.

Here is Australia Post advertising your details for sale

A sort of similar issue - the last month or so I've received two or three missed calls a day from 08 6228 4014 and 03 9020 2875. When I Google them, there's lots of stuff about scams and telemarketers. I have no idea why I am suddenly on their list. I know it's childish, but I'm freaking well NOT going to answer. I keep hoping they will give up but it's not looking good at this stage. My great strategy at this point is wait until iOS 7 comes out - apparently it will have call blocking. Any idea what the go is or any hot tips? Aside from answer the phone you idiot

I am not impressed by personally addressed propaganda from election candidates either. I guess they have access to the current electoral roll? Or is it only sitting members? If I want to know stuff about how good you think you are, I'll look it up. Why is it so much to ask to be left alone?

It would be interesting to see whether kiteboydave had a brain fart when he filled in the form and accidentally opted in for their marketing crap or whether AusPost have taken it upon themselves to opt him in regardless of his wishes.

As far as telemarketers go I have a 100% foolproof method of screening their calls. If the phone rings I know it's a telemarketer, I haven't given my landline number to anyone, not even family so no-one has it, if the phone rings I can safely ignore it. Works a treat.

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Maybe a complaint to one of the current affair shows may prompt a segment to be filmed. I'd look forward to seeing how far they get with their investigations.

dont go to public !you might get mob lynching by some rich nerds.

busterwa said..

dont go to public !you might get mob lynching by some rich nerds.

Is that Katy Perry?

Tux said..

kiteboy dave said..

I don't watch TT/ACA so I'm not really keen to suffer the loss of dignity involved with actually appearing on one of them

Just ask them to blur your face...last thing you want is Aus Post getting the **** with you...goodbye mail

The only mail I ever get is bills. And some political propoganda at election time. To be honest I'd be better off without the old mailbox.

^ That just screams "we dont care"

My response:



Hi VickyL,

By the sound of your response, you sell users details on an Opt-Out system, is that correct? I needed to have actively ticked a box to opt out? Please clarify if that
a/ was the system a few years ago
b/ is the system Australia Post uses currently.
I would have never ticked an Opt-in check box, so I'm fairly sure an easy-to-miss Opt-out box was hidden in the fine print somewhere.

Referring to this section of your response:
I'm happy to get your details removed from this database for you. In order to do that can you please provide the following information. This requested information is in line with our Privacy Guidelines and is a mandatory security check to ensure the person making the enquiry is authorised to do so.

??? Your nine digit Customer Reference Number (CRN)
??? Your old address
??? Your new address
??? Name of the person who lodged the application
??? Full names of all addressees covered by the service
??? Phone number (as provided on the redirection application)

Once I have this information I will be able to have your details removed from this database.

Please note that this is entirely unacceptable.

I have used mail redirection services a number of times previously, approximately 3, 6 and 9 years ago.

How on earth do you expect me to provide details like a CRN from a form I filled in 9 years and 3 houses ago? That is utterly ridiculous. I can't even remember which moves I used your service for, and some of the addresses involved.

Common sense would dictate that this is not subject to privacy laws - have you ever heard of someone being maliciously removed from a spam marketing list? I'm sure that would really ruin their day.

This seems to me that you're putting unneccesary hurdles in place simply to make it difficult to get off your marketing database.
I have *never* had this kind of imposition put on me to get off a database - and that includes the companies that you sold my details to against my wishes.

Please reconsider your position while I research mine. I will be happy to take this far and wide, as the sheer idiotic bureaucracy involved will ensure that the story has legs.

Thanks
David.