Can you believe the amount of junk mail you receive every day?
When I get home from work, I walk to the mailbox. I usually have a smile on my face and some pep in my step. I open the mailbox, and to my dismay, I discover a heaping pile of wasted paper.
A few months ago, I began renting a PO box from the local post office. I never put the address on anything and never used it. I was curious a few weeks later to see if there was anything in it. I walked into the post office and opened the PO box. The thing was jam packed full of more wasted paper. Needless to say, I am returning the key to the box.
On a trip to Home Depot earlier this week, I was listening to NPR (National Public Radio). As far as I am concerned, that is the only intelligent conversation on the air today. They were talking about the “National Do Not Call Registry.” I think the DJ’s words went something like this: “Back when you signed up for the Do Not Call list, I’m sure you didn’t realize that your actions were contributing to the clear cutting of forests to make paper for more junk mail.” Of course, that’s from my poor memory. They were talking about how much more junk mail there is now that companies can’t call so many people.
I was talking last night about how much junk mail I get. Do you know that I probably get about five credit card offers a week? Most of them are from the credit card company I already have a card with!!!
If you are getting fed up with this, like I am, what can you do about it? I found some pretty good websites that talk about it.
– Do-it-yourself: Stop junk mail, email and phone calls
– Stopping the junk mail tree killers
– Greendimes.com – Restore your sanity and our planet
Something really has to be done about this. Where we live, our recycling is picked up every two weeks. Every two weeks, we have an entire 32 gallon garbage can filled with paper and more that won’t fit. Every two weeks. I would say that 80% of this paper we didn’t ask for. That’s just crazy.
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I use the site http://www.myjunktree.com and it has help me get rid about 90% of the junk mail. I found it to be a very easy site to use and it take no time at all to get the job done. They plant trees with each order and a big plus is that they can help stop the un-wanted telephone books also.
I use the services of Myjunktree and was able to stop most of the misc junk mail i was getting and all of the credit card offers even teh ones form my own bank. The also stopped all the weekly mailers I was getting and the best part they stopped the wasteful phone books I never used. It’s a great service check these guys out.
Well… Here’s one way of looking at it…
Here’s another one for your list of junk mail things
http://www.dearbulkmailer.com/
Here’s a great way to ditch your junk mail. It’s free, and gives you helpful instructions. Junk mail isn’t just annoying, it’s a tree killer!
http://c3.newdream.org/campaigns/c3/register/8b1ca30a55ac2947851d6a218658a303/
You’re very welcome. In general in life, you don’t have to accept “presents” that you don’t want.
Thanks Peter.
This is good information. I didn’t know that you can give your junk mail back to the people who give it to you. Nice.
You can also just Refuse the junk mail and let the post office worry about getting rid of it. Maybe it’ll eventually send them a message.
http://www.refuseyourmail.info/
Most post offices have a junk mail recycling bin. That is where I start. I also make sure that if I fill out any one line forms, I am sure to check I do not want to receive promotional materials if asked. This is a sure fire way to get on mailing lists for all sorts of unneeded junk.
The bank credit card offers just keep coming. I get on average two a day. I have tried to get them to stop, but nobody is listening. I suppose if I had bad credit, they wouldn’t send me any. Or who knows, maybe they would.