Woman spends four years chasing real estate agents who ignore ‘no junk mail’ sign

PHOTO: CHRIS MCKEEN/STUFF Rachel Owens is trying to stem the persistent posting of real estate advertising, one agent at a time.

According to STUFF after becoming frustrated with real estate agents ignoring the “no junk mail” signs on her letterbox, Rachel Owens has spent the last four years tracking down the perpetrators.

It has become something of a hobby for the Auckland data science consultant to find the offending agent, their boss, and if she can be bothered, their boss’s boss, to voice her displeasure.

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She even had one repeat offender donate $250 to a women’s refuge charity as penance after catching him in the act – a memory she said was particularly sweet.

“He had previously said to me ‘oh – it’s the contractor who delivers fliers into the box, they’re not following the rules, sorry about that’,” Owens said.

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“And then one day I heard the dog barking because someone was lingering outside – and here was this guy, this real estate agent, putting his flier into my letterbox. And I was like haha – got you.”

Rachel Owens refers to herself as a “squeaky wheel” but hopes her actions will have some small impact on the amount of real estate advertising dropped into letterboxes labelled ‘no junk mail’.

CHRIS MCKEEN/STUFF Rachel Owens refers to herself as a “squeaky wheel” but hopes her actions will have some small impact on the amount of real estate advertising dropped into letterboxes labelled ‘no junk mail’.