{"id":153,"date":"2004-10-02T15:41:31","date_gmt":"2004-10-02T14:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/02\/labour-party-dont-believe-in-mail-preference-service\/"},"modified":"2009-01-25T14:33:28","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T14:33:28","slug":"labour-party-dont-believe-in-mail-preference-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/02\/labour-party-dont-believe-in-mail-preference-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Party don&#8217;t believe in Mail Preference Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been registered with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpsonline.org.uk\" target=\"NewWindow\">Mail Preference Service<\/a> for some time now, and yesterday I received a piece of junk mail propaganda from the Labour Party. They obviously don&#8217;t believe in the legal requirement to check the MPS opt-out list before sending unsolicited mail. I will be reporting this breach. We will see whether they get fined.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I received a reply from MPS, saying that they do not &#8216;get in the way&#8217; of communication between people and the Government or Political parties. Fair enough on the Government side of things, but as far as I&#8217;m concerned a political party (whichever party) peddling it&#8217;s political opinion is no different to a company peddling unwanted goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been registered with the Mail Preference Service for some time now, and yesterday I received a piece of junk mail propaganda from the Labour Party. They obviously don&#8217;t believe in the legal requirement to check the MPS opt-out list before sending unsolicited mail. I will be reporting this breach. We will see whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}