Junk Mail

[happylabs]

I don't know about anyone else, but I am fed up with the amount of junk mail that comes to this house. Not only do I have to shred the envelope with my name and address, but anymore, they plaster my name on every piece of paper that's inside, so that has to be shredded too.
So I am on a campaign to try to rid myself of this evil. If the junk comes with a return prepaid envelope, I write DO NOT SOLICIT on every piece of paper, put it in their prepaid envelope, and send it back to them.
Maybe, or maybe not, they will get tired of that after a while, and take me off their mailing list.
Anybody else have any suggestions or methods they use to "try" to stop this unwanted junk??

I do the same thing and it does work. I used to get credit card offers, sometimes 2 and 3 a day. I put "remove from mailing list" and returned their crap in their envelopes. Why should we have to try to dispose of all of their junk mail. Think of all of the trees they are killing.

Also, if you get catalogs or requests from insurance companies, etc., and they have a website, you can write to them and ask them to take you off of their mailing list.

I don't stuff the envelope and make it fat either. However, maybe if their junk starts to jam up the machines at the post office someone will do something about all of this crap they send us.

[Karen]

I do the same thing and it does work. I used to get credit card offers, sometimes 2 and 3 a day. I put "remove from mailing list" and returned their crap in their envelopes. Why should we have to try to dispose of all of their junk mail. Think of all of the trees they are killing.

I never did that, but the credit card offers have gotten fewer over the years, I think with the current financial situation, companies are taking less chances on offering credit to random folks.

[Lady's Human]

I don't stuff the envelope and make it fat either. However, maybe if their junk starts to jam up the machines at the post office someone will do something about all of this crap they send us.

Won't happen, as it's a big revenue source for the Post Office.

[RICHARD]

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Blame them!

[Medusa]

Do what I do: I make vision boards of things that I want to attract into my life and I cut out the large words and pictures and paste them on my vision boards. I especially love the ones from insurance companies that say "Mary, here is that second chance you've been waiting for". I love that one! It can be annoying, though, so I get ya but I save the rest and use it to get the fire going in my fireplace in winter.

[KnightOwl]

I'm with Medusa. All that junk mail makes for good fire starter. We do not have a fireplace, but we do have leaves, limbs, and an occasional tree that falls over the fence from the non-caring #%$@ neighbor's wilderness that has to be removed one way or the other. Chuck the unwanted in a rice bag, storage crate, or trash can and be generous when you stoke the latest fire on the back corner of the acre.

Just sayin .....

[Hellow]

It's rather pointless to send anything back to them. The company that receives the mail you send back to them will more than likely just discard it and send you more.

We keep our junk mail and use it for firestarter in the winter.