Stop Junk Mail
Everyone is plagued by junk mail. It is constantly there and constantly unwanted. So how do you get rid of it? Yesterday I signed our house up for a few different options to have our junk mail stopped! This will save paper and the environment!!!
GreenDimes is the organization I want to mention first because it specifically relates to my theme with this blog. They stop 90% of your junk mail guaranteed and make sure that you only receive the mail you want. There is a free option as well as a premium option. The premium option is $20 a year. Not a bad price at all and with the $20 they plant 5 trees!! If you decide to sign up for either option, there is another plus. First, you get to choose how you want to redeem your dollar FROM (your not paying a dollar) GreenDimes, just for signing up. Do you want them to use your dollar to plant a tree on your behalf, keep your dollar and send you an issue of Plenty, the magazine for green living, or mail you a check for $1?
After you verify your account and sign in, you have 3 steps.
- Choose the catalogs you no longer wish to receive
- Remove your name from common junk mail lists using the methods below
- Track your progress toward a junk free mailbox
GreenDimes looks up the junk mail that typically comes to you house and gives you a list. Click on “read instructions” next to each direct marketer and it will tell you how to get off their list. Then on the pop up window click “take action”, it will immediately open a window to that site and you just fill out your address. Once you take the steps to one site, go back to GreenDimes and click that you did it. This will add it a completed list and help you keep track of what marketers you are blocking.
If you want to visit a couple more sites to get a rid of junk mail, they are below.
ValPak – According to their site, ValPak is mailed to 45 million houses in North America. Does that make anyone else cringe?? That pack they send out goes straight into my recycled paper pile and I’m sure it happens the same way with the majority of those 45 million households.
The DirectMail.com National Do Not Mail List – Uses their direct marketing expertise to get your name off of those lists for you. The mail-order companies don’t want to waste their money sending mail to people who don’t want to receive it. So they will take you off their list as long as you ask them too. Scoll down the page to fill out the form.
Opt Out – Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the opt-in and opt-out. Choose Opt-Out for 5 years or permanently.
Also, if you are getting mail from someone who previously lived there, instead of throwing it out, write “Return to Sender/Not at this address on the envelope and drop it in the mailbox.
I wanted to get rid of our junk mail and help the environment in the process, so I signed up for all of them. It only took me 15 minutes and they are all FREE!
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Well Ill be darned….. That is quite wild!!! I am plagued by this crap and am glad that my favorite blogger has finally found the solution to my problems!
@Ben Waugh: Thank you very much!! Happy reading!
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.
@Tim: Well thank you very much for your interest in my blog and comment. I will definitely check out MyJunkTree. I know junk mail is a hassle, but it is also very wasteful, so I appreciate what you are doing to help the environment!
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!