Putting An End To Junk Mail

In an average week how much junk mail comes to your home?  For the average American family, with two adults and two children, they could probably weigh their junk mail at the end of any given week to equal the weight of a small animal.  An average American home can get items from; clearing houses, credit card offers, insurance offers, lottery offers, mortgage advertisements and promises of lowering monthly mortgage bills, college fliers from schools all over the United States, entries into contests that had never been entered in the first place, solicitations from charities and the ever present retail catalogs!

Image via WikipediaAlong with the simple fact that all of these items are unnecessary and annoying, the amount of waste they create is drowning the average American family in misused, unread paper.  How can this issue be dealt with and the waste be reduced, or never produced?

The answer to that question is, yes, there is something we can do to stop the madness of junk mail that litters our mail delivery every single day!  There are a couple of groups that can help, and they have all of the information needed to put an end to the junk mail that we are assaulted with in just a few easy steps and with the patience of a few weeks.

One way is to order a Junk Mail Reduction Kit online (usually around $15.00 or less).  Once you have purchased your kit, you simply sign on to the website provided and have the kit activated by clicking on the appropriate link.  It is as simple as entering your name and address and the names of any other people living at your house, even variations of a name that appears on junk mail can be added.

Image via WikipediaAnother good way is to register your name and the names of the others at your address with the Direct Marketing Association Mail Preference Service, which will remove the names from hundreds of mailing lists.  This service is a one time fee of $1.00 per name and along with monthly monitoring to ensure your name remains off of unsolicited mailing lists.  The option of having mail addressed to "resident," "occupant," or even "neighbor," can be done, too.  You can also request, when telemarketers call you, to be removed from both call and mailing lists. Certain companies you deal with, such as credit cards and other companies, also offer the option to be excluded from mailing lists, or from sharing your information with outside marketing companies (sometimes it's in the small print, but if you read closely, you can usually find a number to call and request this exclusion.)

Because the fact that conventional or "snail" mail isn't instantaneous, it will take a few weeks for things to get rolling but in a few short weeks you should receive customized pre-printed postcards to sign, stamp and mail in and your name will be removed from as many lists that have your name in their data base. 

Eventually all of the companies that have your name will be notified and the endless barrage of junk mail will cease.  If a piece of junk mail finds its way into your mailbox, simply sign in to your online account (if you got one of the kits) and have your name removed as quickly as possible.  Just imagine the impact of one house on one street in one town will make and why shouldn't it be YOUR house?

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