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Stop Junk Mail
Fliers, credit card applications, and coupon books aren’t only annoying, they use trees and add to the waste stream. But stopping them is next to impossible. You’d need to contact the Direct Marketing Association, credit bureaus, and catalog distributors individually. Who has that kind of time?
There’s a better way vanquish junk mail. Two new organizations, 41Pounds.org and Greendimes.com, will contact direct marketers and other companies on your behalf and have them remove your name from mailing lists. Both companies also take extra steps to preserve the environment: Greendimes plants one tree a month for each of its members, while 41Pounds donates over half its profits to environmental groups, local schools, and youth groups. Membership fees are modest–41Pounds charges $41 for five years of coverage, and Greendimes costs $36 a year or $360 for a lifetime membership.
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add your comment »We need a Do Not Mail Registry! Support the campaign to get one: http://www.donotmail.org
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The Postal Service delivers 17.8 tons of bulk mail each year, 44% of which goes unopened, according to the EPA. Just 22% of bulk mail is recycled. To stop the flow, visit the Direct Marketing Association, the leading global trade association of business and nonprofit organizations using and supporting multichannel direct marketing tools and techniques, at www.dmachoice.org, and get put on the "do not mail" list. It costs one dollar, but it'll remove your name from the lists for five years. These and many more like it are available on our eco friendly website http://www.karmafarmonline.com. Wishing you all many Grateful days of organic life.
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I made a committment to do no business what so ever with companies who send me junk mail - this includes political candidates. I won't buy anything from companies who solicit my business through mail and I don't vote for anyone who squanders resources in this way. I shred the material and compost it so it does go to some good use.
Gradually, over time, my paper mail has reduced to a small trickle.
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www.catalogchoice.org is free and has an enormous database of catalogs which may be clogging up your mailbox.
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I heard back from Greendimes and they aren't able to stop the post office from delivering the pre-sorted junk mail either...sigh.
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I hear ya, Maxine K.! I have friends that would be fellow environmental activists if it weren't for the paper mailings asking for donations and sacrificing trees in the process. Seems kinda counter-intuitive to me anyhow ~
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For Germany contact the Robinson Liste: www.robinsonliste.de
It's free (only costs the 0,55 Euro postage stamp to send the completed form back).
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The power of junk mail is it's cost that is so easily past down into the total cost of a product simply as advertising. It is in the tens of billions of dollars annually nation-wide with conservative estimates at an industry of $50 billion. This calculates to an annual individual cost very close to $132.50 per man, woman, and child in the U.S. Check out the following website I found at http://www.ecocycle.org/junkmail
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My favorite junk mail prevention is to use those pre-addressed postage paid return envelopes. I always make sure to stuff everything, including the original envelope, any extra info, the sign up page with "please remove me from these lists" in the address label, everything! into that little ditty and then send it back to the owner. It has worked wonders, except for those nasty Wal-mart fliers...
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This is my 2nd comment on junk mail, I recieved lots of interesting comments and useful info. Whats goin on?? theres no cost for the helpyou all gave me?? Since I don't get around much--long story, don't want to bore you, I don't much attentation,info., ideas,etc. Thats why I'm making this statment: Thank you so much, I really appreciated. Have a fantasitic day!
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