Poor father’s opening junk mail (4)

I believe the answer is:

bumf

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(Other definitions for bumf that I've seen before include "Boring documents etc" , "pile of leaves" , "Useless printed documents" , "Official documents" , "official papers?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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