Junk Mail: Enough.

The mail box can't hold it all.  I'm tired of these 15 years or so of my mail weighing more than a new born baby, junk junk junk. The 19 billion catalogues mailed to Americans every year consume 53 million trees and who knows how many tons of paper.  I hate it.

With a four month sack full of junk mail, I sat and registered more on Green Dimes, sent off signed notes to data base managers (Green Dimes provided the verbage) and have respectfully said ENOUGH.

Have a child get married and gifts delivered and wham, you are getting every catalogue imaginable.

I'm tired of supporting the U.S. Postal Service by passively accepting junk mail and wasting time with junk I don't care to see.  With the help of Green Dimes, I'm saying no. Enough.  No more.

Comments

[MotherPie]

But christmas cards are an exception. I never consider them junk. Pls keep sending...

[Kathy]

Quel coincidence! I've also had it with junk mail, and since Tuesday I've been keeping a spreadsheet of how much I receive in each category. Stay tuned for a blog posting about it next Tuesday or so...

[Jennifer]

I signed up on Catalog Choice and you wouldn't believe what a difference it has made in my mail. Or should I say in my lack thereof. Those folks (and the ones at Green Dimes) are doing the world a great service.

[Janet]

I had managed to get rid of all my catalogues. Then I got married, which meant moving and changing my name. They found me again, though not as badly. Then I had a baby. I get TONS of toy catalogues. This time of year is truly awful though. We get 6-7 catalogues a day. I actually registered on one of those websites, but I haven't yet sat down and registered the catalogues. (I do actually order from some of them, since we don't have real stores here. Something about buying Christmas gifts at Walmart doesn't appeal.)

[Tim]

I happen to be one of the owners of MyJunkTree and as a new company I search the web to see if we are getting any visibility out there and I post n relevant Blogs.

We launched the company because we were tired of all the junk mail we were receiving and we personally did not want to bounce all over the web to contact all the different companies to stop it all. First and foremost we wanted to let people choose what they wanted to let come to their home knowing that some people really do like some of the coupons and catalogs. So our clients choose what they want stopped.

We also had to provide a service that is different than the other services out there, so here is what we offer:

1. We have a database of over 1300 catalogs that you can choose to stop.
2. We have over a 5700 charities/Non-Profits that you can stop solicitations from.
3. Stop the delivery of the national phone directories.
4. Stop the delivery of the weekly coupons.
5. Stop the general credit card offers as well as the ones from your own major bank.
6. Stop the miscellaneous junk mail from the data brokers.
7. You can register on the National Do Not Call Registry from the website.
8. You can order your no strings attached free annual credit report right from the website.
9. We plant trees with every new membership.

And, yes we are a paid service and yes you can do everything that we do for free, if you want to do all the research and spend the time contacting the companies yourself it can easily be done. We have just done all of the legwork for our clients and feel there is value in the service we provide. So check out MyJunkTree and make difference in your mailbox.

[Tim]

If you want to do more than just Stop Junk Mail that comes to your home, this site might also be of interest to you. Stopping Free Papers. It is a free service and they help you stop the delivery of all the free papers that are thrown in your driveway. The site is sponsored by MyJunkTree and it is totally free!