Comments on: A great way to stop junk mail

By: Suzie

Suzie — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:33:27 +0000

I love the arts and crafts idea! Of course I don’t have kids yet but I’ll keep that in mind, thanks. In the meantime, there are several websites out there that make it easy to take your name off of a bunch of lists at once. Some are free, others you have to pay for the service but they plant trees or donate a portion of the proceeds to environmental organizations. ProQuo.com and CatalogChoice.com are both free and stop junk mail and catalogs. GreenDimes.com charges $20 but plants 10 trees. I’m partial to ProQuo, 1 because its free and 2 because I work for them! Honestly though, there are at least half a dozen websites that offer the same type of service. I registered for ProQuo, CatalogChoice and recently with GreenDimes. It takes a while but it really does work. I registered back in November and I finally started seeing a difference in the amount of junk mail I get a couple of weeks ago.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:30:39 +0000

Wrapping paper?

By: Dave Storm

Dave Storm — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:44:59 +0000

I give the kids our junk mail which they use for their craft activities, such as colouring and cutting.
Can anyone else think of great ways to recycle this troublesome and unwanted mail?

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:35:40 +0000

Ahhh… never mind. You provide your CC (which i still don’t like to do) for identity verification, at which point a temporary charge MAY appear on your statement.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:30:26 +0000

You have to pay $1 to get your name removed from direct mail marketing? I know it’s only $1, but it still burns me up. So then I either have to pay by check and mail a form, or give them my credit card for $1!!!!????

By: Bobby Indigo

Bobby Indigo — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:26:12 +0000

Thanks for that. Its great to know that there are real ways to tackle this problem instead of sending all of my random junk mail back to credit card companies with their pre-paid envelopes.