How To Stop Unwanted Mailed Catalogs
The Buffalo News recently ran an Associated Press article highlighting websites that will help stop all those unwanted catalogs from entering your home. Kind of a DO NOT CALL registry for the US MAIL. Here's where to go for specific needs. Good Luck...I'll be logging onto some of these too!
The World Privacy Forum has developed a how-to list on opting out of mailings titled the “Top 10 Opt Outs” that’s posted at www.worldprivacyforum.org . Consumers also can write to the DMA at Mail Preference Service, P.O. Box 643, Carmel, N.Y. 10512-0643 to get off mailing lists. A $1 fee applies.
The other major source of unwanted mail, prescreened credit and insurance offers, can be addressed through the Web site www.optoutprescreen.com or calling the toll-free number 888-5OptOut (888-567-8688).
The Ecology Center in Berkeley, Calif., has its Catalog Choice site at www.catalogchoice.org . Consumers indicate which catalogs they don’t want to receive, and the service for free notifies the companies to stop mailings.
Another ecologically minded service is www.41pounds.org , based in Ferndale, Mich. It takes its name from the estimated weight of the junk mail each household receives each year. Households pay $41 for a five-year membership, and some of the profits are shared with environmental groups.
posted by Rob Lucas @ 4:18 PM
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4 Comments:
Great post on Catalog Choice
I wanted to give you a heads-up on another great Web site that I thought your readers would find interesting and help them de-clutter their mailboxes and simplify their lives.
Its called ProQuo.com, a free, easy-to-use site that gives you the ability to remove yourself from the most commonly used marketing lists in a matter of minutes!
Who knew that Americans receive nearly four million tons of junk mail each year and the average consumer can be on thousands of marketing mailing lists at any time? We are flooded with unwanted advertisements, credit card offers and political propaganda, which can bury the mail we are looking for…not to mention create a drain on the environment.
Take care,
Carly VanDyke
PainePR
There are a lot of ways to Remove Junk Mail from your mailbox. I personally use MyJunkTree. It is one stop shopping. I stopped the miscellaneous junk mail, credit card offers, weekly coupons, and of course the catalogs. What I liked best was that I get feedback directly form teh catalog companies letting me know I am off thier list.
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.
If you want to do more than just Stop Junk Mail that comes to your home, this site might also be of interest to you. Stopping Free Papers. It is a free service and they help you stop the delivery of all the free papers that are thrown in your driveway. The site is sponsored by MyJunkTree and it is totally free!
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