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A white hardcover book titled “Hate Mail” lies flat on a grey surface. The cover features a sketch of a hand typing on a keyboard and a quote describing the work as “gorgeous and funny”.

We've got nothing but love for Mr Bingo's brilliant new book of Hate Mail

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Date
9 October 2012

When he’s not recruiting Twitter trolls to go after his many plagiarists, Bingo is taking full advantage of the “here is a ten-minute window to buy something…GO!” technique. For a small fee, Bingo will take an old – usually quite hilarious – postcard, and on the back inscribe a brief, insulting message, often containing some sort of horrible picture which is then mailed to whoever coughs up the cash. I myself have succumbed to the charm of Bingo’s Hate Mail, and you know what? The day a postcard arrived for me calling me a “Total Bastard” kind of made my week. Now he’s made about 400 of these insulting pieces of post fodder, they have been collated in book-form in a publication that Bingo describes as “A book about telling strangers to f*ck off” and has to be the best stocking-filler ever created.

When asked if he had ever received any hate mail of his own, Bingo told us: “It’s not strictly hate mail, but when I was in halls of residence in my first year of university, someone wrote ‘F*CK YOU’ in permanent marker on my bedroom door. I never found out who it was!”

Catch up with the wonderful man himself at his book launch and signing at Camden Town Brewery on October 25 and if that isn’t enough to tempt you, Bingo will be serving his own Ltd Edition Hate Ale, made with Camden Brewery. More details here.

A person smiles as they hold a paintbrush over a wooden table. The table is cluttered with coloured pencils, markers, a glass of beer and a small piece of paper that reads “YOU’RE A FIT”.
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Mr Bingo: Hate Mail

A hand holds a postcard against a red postbox. The card features a line drawing of three figures and the handwritten message “Dear Clare, Cardiff is a shit-hole”.
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Mr Bingo: Hate Mail

An open book shows a photograph of a brutalist concrete building on the left page. The right page features a postcard with a 3D illustration of the letters “GIT” built from green and red blocks.
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Mr Bingo: Hate Mail

An open book shows two contrasting postcards. The left page features a traditional postcard of “Royal Residences”, while the right page shows a bold, typographic postcard that reads “Fuck You”.
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Mr Bingo: Hate Mail

An open book shows a photograph of a harbour with boats on the left page. The right page features a postcard with a simple line drawing and a handwritten address to “Claire Jones” in Cardiff.
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Mr Bingo: Hate Mail

An open book shows two postcards side by side. The left page features a landscape with a white cottage, while the right page shows a postcard with a portrait and the text “YOU WILL NEVER BE AS GOOD AS PETER ANDRE”.
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Mr Bingo: Hate Mail

A hand holds a postcard over the slot of a red post box. The card features bold, 3D typography in red and white that reads “YOU WILL NEVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING”.
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Mr Bingo: Hate Mail

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Liv Siddall

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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