Chuck it...don’t even read it.
Don’t you have a recycling bin for paper products? No one is forcing you to waste time opening these; just chuck ‘em in the bin.
If you want enough junk mail as fuel to keep you warm in the winter, join the NRA. Forests must have fallen to provide them with the paper nessary for all their “contests” and pleas.
Place the request, along with a note readin,”Remove this name from all direct marketing (mail and telemarketing) lists immediately,” and mail back in postage-paid envelope. If the sender has to pay for many such returned requests, they will remove you from lists.
A very effective technique for ANY junk mail: Make the spammer pay for receiving his own junk back.
Stuff the pre-paid business reply envelope with all of the other papers that came with the junk mail (you may even add other unrelated junk mail), and return it to the sender.
If you have time and are as vicious as I can be... I’ve taken the postage paid return envelopes (PPRE) and filled them with pennies, washers, etc.
Except for AARP... I took their PPRE and attached it to a nicely wrapped BRICK... funny, tho ... I haven’t received anything from AARP in Quite a long time.
If there is a pre-paid return reply envelope I take the part that has my name on it and write on it with a Sharpie marker, “Please take me off your mailing list!”. 98 times out of 100 that junk mail never appears again.
If there is no return reply envelope I just get my own envelope and send my reply back to them on my own dime.
I get very little junk mail these days.
See if there is a fax number, then fax them 10 sheets of black paper with a normnal cover letter asking to be removed from their list.
Add to Spam
One of my relatives had a heck of a time getting the NRA to stop sending things to her deceased husband. He had been a lifetime member and earned that by winning a shooting competition many years ago.
Call, letters, all to no avail.
Then she tried a new tactic and sent them a “change of address” with the new address being Heaven. That worked.
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs4-junk.htm#MPS
There are a variety of strategies you can use to get off direct marketing lists:
Mailing lists of the major national marketers
If you want to be taken off as many national mailing lists as possible, your first step is to contact the Direct Marketing Association’s (DMA) Mail Preference Service (MPS). You must re-register after three years.
•Register for the Mail Preference Service by mail. Send a letter plus a $1 check or money order to:
Mail Preference Service
Direct Marketing Association
PO Box 643
Carmel, NY 10512
Click here for our simple mail-in form, www.privacyrights.org/Letters/jm1a.htm.
When you register, your name and address are placed in a “do not mail” file which is updated monthly. DMA members are required to update their lists at least quarterly, and some do it monthly. Businesses who are not members of the DMA may also take advantage of this “do not mail” list, so registering with the DMA will reduce much of your junk mail.
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs4-junk.htm#MPS
•Register online. You may also sign up online at the DMA’s website. There is no fee for online registration. Visit:: https://www.dmachoice.org/dma/member/regist.action DMA says this option is quicker than by postal mail.
•Register names of deceased: The Direct Marketing Association also gives you the ability to register the names of deceased loved ones with their Deceased Do Not Contact list (DDNC) at: https://preference.the-dma.org/cgi/ddnc.php. Click on the Continue button at the button of the page to get to the form.
I roll it up and bind it and take it to the beach to burn in the fire pits
Every couple months I get a solicitation to contribute towards W’s Presidential library - no clue how I got on that mailing list.
They will use the voter registration lists. Public information. I resent the phone calls. No use trying to get them to stop. The illegitimates gave themselves an exemption from the law on the do not call list.
Invest in a fireplace or wood stove if you don’t already have one. Your junk mail will supply the tinder.
I wish the most pressing issue in my life was too much junk mail.
A do not mail registry affects the for profit mailing lists, those which are for non-profits aren't under the same obligation to remove your name simply because you've requested to have your name removed from mailing lists, however, almost every company has a self imposed requirement to remove names at request.
Call one of the smaller organizations which is soliciting your help, and ask to talk to the fundraising coordinator. They'll be most likely to give you the answer where they got the list, and the contact information for the company. Most times, these companies have a simple online form you can fill out to purge your name from their lists, however, understand that it does it once. You'd be best served to use this form after each election.
And trust me, I'm in California, I know your pain, got 85 mailings before the last election. I just keep a trash can near the mailbox just to toss these mailings away.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)