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September 18, 2007
Reduce your junk mail
Challenge Yourself for: 24 Hours
Drowning in junk mail? The earth is too. Most junk mail is not printed on recycled paper and ends up in landfills. In the next 24 hours, contact a few of your most prolific junk mail companies and request to be taken off their mailing lists. If you’re receiving huge amounts of junk, another tactic is to contact the Direct Marketing Association and register to be placed on their do-not-send list.
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I finally called all the companies sending me the freebie-coupon mailers and asked them to remove me from their lists – it has made a HUGE difference in the amount of paper I recycle each week :)
We opted out of credit offers and also use catalogchoice.org to reduce junk mail. If a company doesn’t participate in Catalog Choice, I call them directly and tell them to remove me from their mailing list.
As soon as an unwanted catalog shows up in the mail I call the 800 # and ask to be removed from the mailing list. For the companies that I do want info from, it’s easier to just sign up for email info on their websites.
Now I’m working on getting rid of that “free” newspaper that is always delivered on Wednesday and Sunday. The bag it is delivered in is great for picking up dog poo but I never even unfold the paper…I shudder at the thought of how many people throw it away like I do.
Here is the address (again) to stop junk mail dmachoice.org/mps
100 million trees were cut down last year to supply American households with direct(junk)mail.
registered with optoutprescreen.com, they take you off the prescreened offers for credit and insurance
http://www.catalogchoice.org/
All you have to do is search for the catalogs you want to stop receiving and they will do all the work for you. It’s great for you and for the environment :o)
Go to Greendimes.com! They find all of the junk mail that comes to your house, double checks that you don’t want it and wahlah, NO MORE JUNK MAIL and the LANDFILLS are yelling Thank you!
Oh, boy! This one I REALLY need as I put my name on a billion catalogue requests. I hope to start today!
will do
I have unsubscribed to several companies. Thank you Ariaana for the info.
I unsubsribed to at least 5 companies rather than just deleting them. The mail traffic is slowing down! It really didn’t take that much extra time. Thanks for the idea!
Found myself finally unsubscribing to all the companies I never used before. Hmmm…It looks mighty different in my inbox!
This sounds like a great way to start my journey to a better life. I’ll try to unsubscribe to several of the companies that just never get tired of sending junk my way. The time I spend just clearing the unwanted email I could sure use in a better way.
This is a great challenge. I signed up for an ebill today. I hate paper bills and I loathe junk mail. I will now go after the junk mail senders and eliminate some of that waste from my mail box.