Ok, maybe not the funniest EVER, but pretty darn funny. I love Saturday Night Live and their take on direct mail marketers is hilarious. Sometimes tree huggers need a little comic relief too.
See the video – A Message from the Alliance of Direct Mail Marketers

Laughs aside, this is a funny take on an actual real issue. Junk mail is not as funny when it comes to your door and truly does have an environmental impact. The Center for a New American Dream has some comprehensive facts and figures posted about junk mail, among them.

More than 100 million trees’ worth …read more

Just in case the steps you take to minimize your junk mail don’t catch everything, Alicia from Mental Health Notes shared this great stamp with me.

Green Upgrader did a bit of research on what the post office will do should you actually use this “Return to Waster” stamp and they report:
for Bulk Mail (the things addressed to “RESIDENT”) if you stamp it and return it the Post Office just ends up recycling it, unless the marketer paid a little extra for a forwarding or return service which they do to make sure their lists are accurate and up to …read more

The U.S. Postal Service delivers more than 100 billion pieces of bulk mail every year. How much of that winds up in your mail box and how much of that is something you never wanted in the first place? Leaving you with the task of trying to recycle or guiltily throwing away? For us, it was a lot. And it was beginning to feel like we were being penalized for charitable giving. For every donation we made to one organization, the following week, dozens more donation requests would pile up in our little box. Enough!
A few months ago, my …read more

Want to make Mother Nature mad? Cut down 100,000,000 trees, use 28 billion gallons of water, spew out CO2 to drive it around and then send it all to a landfill. If I were junk mail, I’d be shaking in my envelope.
Production of junk mail consumes natural resources and energy to make the annoying, unsolicited, endless attempts to sell you things you don’t want. And then it’s your problem to sort through and recycle. Not to mention the added risk of identity theft which will cut into the dollars you were planning to send to Sierra Club.
Get Help:

41pounds will reduce …read more