photo by squeakymarmot
There is nothing worse than coming to home to a full mailbox that’s devoid of anything useful. From supermarket flyers to catalogs to credit card offers, I’m inundated daily with mail that hits the recycling bin without being read.
ForestEthics is a non-profit dedicating to shaking up the paper industry and protecting the environment. They make it easy to empty your mailbox the easy — getting taken off major junk mailing lists.
Fill in your address on their site and generate a personalized PDF for you to download and print. The document includes addressed forms to 14 different junk mailers. You’ll need 14 envelopes and stamps. Take ten minutes out of your day and save a tree from the paper mill.
Economy got you down 
Cut off those unsolicited credit card and insurance offers as well. The Federal Trade Commission gives two thumbs up to OptOutPreScreen.
Check out optoutprescreen or call them at 1-888-5-OPT-OUT. You can opt opt in 5 year intervals or permanently. Should you ever want to receive offers again, you can opt back in.
August 7, 2008 at 12:28 pm |
The website you reference works like a champ, but only for offers from companies in general, not someone you do business with already. I use the services of MyJunkTree and stopped it from both sources. I use these guys to Remove Junk Mail
and teh credit card were a bonus. I stopped teh misc junk mail, catalogs, weekly flyer’s and even teh phone books. Quick and easy system that produces results.
August 26, 2008 at 3:45 pm |
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 it seems the word is getting out. Thanks for the support.
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 2000 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.
August 29, 2008 at 4:17 pm |
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