Posted on 11/30/2009 4:53:10 PM PST by Tango Whiskey Papa
Stop Junk Snail Mail I want to stop my daily Junk Snail Mail deluge from clogging up my US postal box (Not E-Mails). The FTC has a National Do Not Call Registry for telemarketing telephone calls but I am dubious about some of the Do Not Mail websites that I have found: 1. DirectMail.com National Do Not Mail List; https://www.directmail.com/directory/mail_preference/ 2. The Direct Marketing Association's DMAchoice (www.dmachoice.org) https://www.dmachoice.org/dma/member/regist.action Anyone have a silver bullet to stop this junk snail mail?
If junk ‘snail mail’ were eliminated, the USPS would have to shut down.
Ping for later
or once a legit answer is found...
It’s funny that all the environmentalists have never noticed tnemassive amount of paper that goes straight into the trash.
I think you can write ‘em on an individual basis and stop some of it. Or — if you complain, your name may go on some list of people who pay attention to it and they’ll send you even more!
Mrs. Tick shares your viewpoint: she hates junk snailmail and wants to stop it. Me, I HATE junk phone calls, but junk snail mail doesn’t bug me. In any case it’s not worth the hassle of trying to stop it. Some of it I find amusing. We just recycle it all anyway. If I lived in the middle of nowhere, I’d burn it for heat.
Send all junk snail mail to SROH.We appreciate your business.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Turn-newspapers-amp-junk-mail-back-into-logs/
My husband keeps a small junk mail pile.
Every 2 days or so, he sends random junk mail in the junk mail envelope provided off to one of the junk mailers. He never sends off anything with our ID or address.
> Anyone have a silver bullet to stop this junk snail mail?
Here is a potential strategy, which should represent a legitimate form of peaceful protest:
1) Go to Costco and buy a carton of large envelopes
2) Buy a carton of mailing labels
3) Set up your printer with the addresses of your Congress critters
4) Print labels 100 at a time
5) Drop one piece of junk mail into each envelope, affix label and post. Do not affix postage
6) Get all your friends and neighbors to do the same
7) Repeat ad infinitum
IMO it would be a matter of time before Junk Mail was outlawed or the Post Office ceased to accept Junk Mail. This is because one system or the other would rapidly get overloaded with the extra (unprofitable) postal traffic.
Kramer: “Yeah, I’d like to cancel my mail.”
Postal Employee: “Certainly. How long would you like us to hold it?”
Kramer: “Oh, no, no. I don’t think you get me. I want out, permanently.”
The fees for junk mail keeps postal rates down on other mail. It’s what pays the bills.
The three links I used are: PrivacyCouncilOrg, DoNotMailOrg, and Optoutprescreen -the four credit-reporting bureaus: Equifax, Experian, TransUnion, and Innovis - the source of the dangerous credit card offers and much of the other "or current resident" junk mail.
They seem to have gotten the message.
We do the same thing! Don’t know if it does any good but it’s cheap entertainment for me.
I’ve been crossing my name and USPS bar code out, circling the return address and written REFUSED - REMOVE FROM MAILING LIST - RETURN TO SENDER with an arrow pointing toward the circled return address, then dropping in the mailbox at the post office the next time I’m in the area. As to catalogs, you’ll need to contact each one individually and it takes quite a while — a couple of months or more, but it seems to work. You can also e-mail man of the catalog companies, and others have an 800 number.
Yes. Ask your carrier directly.
Mine throws it away before delivering the rest to me. It saves her a lot of weight.
Keep it coming, the postman needs the work.
She will be fired if she is caught throwing it away. I know of one postman who lost his job doing just that.
If junk ‘snail mail’ were eliminated, the USPS would have to shut down.
Yup.
Or it would cost $12 to mail a letter.
LOL and it’s a good way to introduce junk mailers to each other.
If only I could stop the flyers and business cards dropped on my porch each day or stuck in my door. I used to have a front screen door, but they put their junkmail down between the screen and the grill where we couldn’t easily remove it. I don’t see why these folks have the right to come on private property to deposit unwanted advertisements.
In addition, some industrious crooks case neighborhoods by distributing junk flyers to residents. Easy to copy some flyers and have an excuse to go up to people’s front porches.
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