How to Stop Junk Mail

June 22nd, 2008 Sammy

Is your mailbox getting a little fat?

Like many others, we’ve always received hordes of direct marketing junk mail. Even more so since we bought a house. One night I thought about starting something profound like a “Green Advertising Initiative.” I ran it by Carrie and she said there are already companies like this in place but a paid membership is required. Why didn’t I already know this?

I Googled “do not mail list” and found the Direct Marketing Association has a list that you can register to be removed from certain mailing lists. I haven’t registered yet but plan to as soon as I’m done with this post. I am involved in internet marketing so I’m fully aware of my counterpart, direct marketing. DMA is in my mind, the authority on direct marketing best practices, they are a very reputable organization. I urge people to register with the DMA Do Not Mail List for starters to reduce the amount of junk mail you receive and reduce the impact of unwanted, excessive waste.

Green Dimes is another “stop the junk mail service.” They offer a few different packages to choose from, the basic package is free….they will actually pay you $1 to register and it is totally safe. You then have to do the data entry through your Green Dimes account to be removed from major junk mail lists. Purchase a package and Green Dimes will do it all for you.

There are several other do not mail list registrations, which like we said, require a paid membership. You’ll have to review each for yourself and decide whether you feel it’s safe to register with any given list, as it could result in even more junk mail if you register at the wrong place.

If you know of other safe “do not mail list registrations” please share/post the information here.



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  • Garetjax Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 6:56 pm

    There is a lot out there to help you stop the junk mail, credit card offers and catalogs and some are even free. I personally use a services of MyJunkTree to Stop Junk Mail and it worked. My house was buried in catalogs, credit card offers and stuff. I talked to my carrier teh other day and she said she does not know what I did but, I get a lot less mail. Best compliment i have had. It is a paid service but, well worth the $20 annual membership.

  • Steven Conley Says:
    June 28th, 2008 at 6:55 pm

    I have use the myjunktree site also and found it very easy to use and the most important think was all the info I needed was on this one site. Save me hours of work just looking up e-mail addresses and phone numbers to stop the junk mail. It was well worth the $20 annual membership fee.

  • Tim Says:
    August 26th, 2008 at 9:18 pm

    I happen to be one of the owners of MyJunkTree and as a new company I search the web to see if we are getting any visibility out there and it seems the word is getting out. Thanks for the support.

    We launched the company because we were tired of all the junk mail we were receiving and we personally did not want to bounce all over the web to contact all the different companies to stop it all. First and foremost we wanted to let people choose what they wanted to let come to their home knowing that some people really do like some of the coupons and catalogs. So our clients choose what they want stopped.

    We also had to provide a service that is different than the other services out there, so here is what we offer:

    1. We have a database of over 1300 catalogs that you can choose to stop.
    2. We have over a 2000 charities/Non-Profits that you can stop solicitations from.
    3. Stop the delivery of the national phone directories.
    4. Stop the delivery of the weekly coupons.
    5. Stop the general credit card offers as well as the ones from your own major bank.
    6. Stop the miscellaneous junk mail from the data brokers.
    7. You can register on the National Do Not Call Registry from the website.
    8. You can order your no strings attached free annual credit report right from the website.
    9. We plant trees with every new membership.

    And, yes we are a paid service and yes you can do everything that we do for free, if you want to do all the research and spend the time contacting the companies yourself it can easily be done. We have just done all of the legwork for our clients and feel there is value in the service we provide.

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