Rejected petition Make cold calling and junk mail illegal during COVID-19 pandemic

We need a new law making cald calling and junk mail illegal. A second wave of Covid-19 might be here soon and we need to act now. The public can only opt out of receiving Royal Mail's junk mail, but there are still a number of private junk mail deliverers out there that put our lives at risk

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After finding junk mail in our mailbox almost every day, we realised this is a real health hazard. Watching a few junk mail deliverers over a few days we saw how they were delivering leaflets without using PPE (gloves, face mask or visor etc). A junk mail deliverer will touch hundreds or even thousands of mailbox doors and leaflets. They are putting the public at risk every day

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Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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You may wish to sign some of these petitions:

Make it illegal for companies to be able to cold call: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/329688

Prohibit companies from delivering leaflets to houses until the lockdown ends: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/308690

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