Is That Junk Mail in Your Trunk?
October 4, 2008 · Print This Article
If you’re an American, you are receiving more than your fair share of brochures, catalogs, credit card offers, and coupon booklets that end up in your over-flowing garbage can. In fact, the average American receives 41 pounds of junk mail each year. And if you’re honest with yourself, how much of your 41 pounds consists of catalogs you like to thumb through even though Crate & Barrel, Pottery Barn, and Eddie Bauer have perfectly good web sites where you can view the same content? Uh huh, that’s what I thought.
I recently watched the Overbrook Foundation’s environmental director Daniel Katz on Billy Moyers’ Journal discuss one of the easiest ways to seriously cut down on your junk mail–Catalog Choice.
Even though we at Clutter Love believe that a reasonable amount of clutter in your home proves only that you are not a Real Simple-reading cyborg, we do believe you should take some steps to reduce your environmental impact. And in this case, we aren’t too proud to shame you because it couldn’t be easier to stop most of your junk mail–saving you time and lessening your environmental impact–for FREE. It’s as easy as signing up for Catalog Choice, an online service that will virtually eliminate your junk mail.
You can either contact the Direct Marketing Association and request the “do not mail” postcard (free), pay 5$ to make the request online, or sign up for Catalog Choice to handle it all for you.
Can you believe the DMA actually makes you pay to get on their do not mail list? Talk about nerve.
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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.