May 13th, 2005 - Reducing junk mail
Woohoo to Roger’s wife for making him recycle junk mail envelopes! But, how do you reduce them coming in? I write about this earlier, but just discovered that I’d done some incorrect HTML so you couldn’t read the post. So here’s the info again:
You can request to be removed from Direct Marketing Associations lists. Costs $5 to get your name off snail mailing lists online. You can also print out and mail the form. I thought I’d already done this, but I haven’t. Will go do right now….Wait, I did do this. I thought so! We’re still getting junk mail, but I did think it had lessened lately. Note that you need a separate form in a separate envelope for each name–I did three (me, me maiden, Eric). Suppose I’ll need a fourth for Maggie soon…. (What you do is fill out the form on that page then select the button for mailing. The next page is what you print out and mail.)
I also ran across the New American Dream’s online form for creating letters to credit card companies, banks, etc. It just creates the letter and you have to print and mail. But it has a number of popular company’s info preset for you which is cool. I think I need to do a few of these. I never look at the solicitations from our credit card companies. I’ve even requested decreases in our credit lines when they automatically increase them!