Thursday, April 23, 2009
Although she doesn’t count, Mindy Pressman guesses she gets about five pieces of junk mail for every piece of legit mail.
She says that she has used the coupons she gets a few times, but that she finds the vast amount of junk mail she receives a waste.
“I would forego my lifetime savings from junk mail coupons if it meant that I never received another one,” says Pressman, San Diego graduate student. “I don’t use the overwhelming majority of the stuff I get.”
Coupon bonanza: If junk mail is taking over your mailbox, you can get your name off junk mail lists in a few steps.
One option for junk mail is to recycle it like Michelle Kanga does. Kanga, Rockville, Maryland, graduate student, says she recycles all her junk mail. However, recycling does not make up for the energy it took to get the junk mail to her. When you account for the energy it takes to print the junk mail, transport it and recycle it, junk mail seems like a massive waste.
Getting your name off junk mail lists can be time consuming and require you to send out letters of your own. Step-by-step manuals detailing how to stop junk mail from invading your mailbox are available at www.ecocycle.org and www.junkbusters.com.
If you don’t have the time to get your name off the junk mailing lists, then there are companies who will do it for you. Tonic Mailstopper, at mailstopper.tonic.com, claims to prevent 90 percent of junk mail for $20 a year. 41 Pounds, at www.41pounds.org, offers to rid you of 80 to 95 percent of your junk mail for $41 for five years.
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Green it!: Rid yourself of junk mail
<p>www.ByeByeMail.com is only $19.95 to do it yourself and lasts several years vs. the higher fees for the services. I believe even the services still require you to do some work anyway. The Bye Bye Mail fee covers the pre-ordered or created forms and mailing lables in the Kit and easy instructions. They are out of Kansas if you want to support a local small business...Sign in to comment
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