Who Hates Junk Mail? ME!

            Getting the mail is often a frustrating experience for me. There is no need to send so much junk mail because I am not buying. The sad fact is that it is relatively inexpensive to send bulk advertisements, so even though the rate of return might be small the cost to businesses isn’t great. Those rejected bulk advertisements result in piles and piles of paper that I am often not quite sure what to do with. I try to recycle as much of the content as I am able to, but wouldn’t it be a lot easier if I just didn’t get stuck with the junk in my mail box?

            While at a previous address I decided to do something about the unsolicited messages. I signed up with 41Pounds.org for help in stopping the problem. The organization took my money and then contacted the many distributors of junk mail to have my name removed from their lists. I gave them a list of the catalogs I received that I do not want and they also contacted these organizations. I had sweet relief for a year until I moved elsewhere. The volume of junk mail sent to me at the next address was also not great. 41 Pounds had given me some tips to help keep my mailbox free of unwanted garbage. Do not register with the Postal Service for a permanent address change. Doing so will result in the Postal Service selling your information to solicitors of duct cleaning, personalized return address stickers, and carpet cleaning. Instead, fill out a temporary change of address and make sure you notify all of your accounts of your change of address within the time period that you have the temporary change on file. An additional tip is to never use your address when entering contests or signing up for frivolous services. They do not need your address and only want it so they can send physical spam to your mailbox. I greatly recommend using 41 Pounds or another service to rid yourself of the waste. Relief will come from not having to sort through a pile of mail with only one relevant item and from knowing that you’ve helped save trees and more. Here are the listed benefits on the 41 Pounds website:

Time — No credit card offers to shred or unwanted catalogs.
Trees — Keep 100+ million trees in forests, cooling the planet.
Water — Protect 28 billion gallons of clean water.
Climate — Junk mail produces more C02 than 9 million cars.
Planet — We donate to your favorite charity when you sign up.