how the hell do i stop getting bulk snail mail? any of you have success?

[evident]

Im so sick of going through my mail and having to throw away tons of catalogs like Dr leonards and valuepacks, crap that i've never bought from before. the valuepacks are ok sometimes, but these catalogs with overpriced as seen on tv junk need to stop getting mailed to me!

i found this website http://www.obviously.com/junkmail/ and it seems like alot of my stuff gets mailed from the "carol wright" company, but that number is disconnected

so how successful are you guys getting reduced junk mail? credit card offers bother me too

 

[Newbian]

Brick up your mailbox.

 

[JohnCU]

well as long as its not popping out of your AC

 

[Baked]

I throw them in the recycle bin at the end of the week.

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Yeah, I get an immense amount of the stuff too. It's really annoying.

 

[JDMnAR1]

Whenever it includes a postage paid reply envelope, I like to share the wealth. I will take that unsolicited credit card offer from Chase, remove the application and any identifying information, and put it in the reply envelope for the unsolicited offer from Bank of America. Rinse and repeat with any other junk mail that includes a postage paid envelope so everyone gets to both open crap they didn't ask for, and pay for return postage on it.

 

[evident]

Originally posted by: JDMnAR1
Whenever it includes a postage paid reply envelope, I like to share the wealth. I will take that unsolicited credit card offer from Chase, remove the application and any identifying information, and put it in the reply envelope for the unsolicited offer from Bank of America. Rinse and repeat with any other junk mail that includes a postage paid envelope so everyone gets to both open crap they didn't ask for, and pay for return postage on it.

problem with that though: it wastes my time to do that if i was still in college or something i'd probably do that al lthe time, but i dont even feel like throwing out my shit at the end of teh week. it just gets annoying sorting it all!

 

[Pepsei]

Originally posted by: JDMnAR1
Whenever it includes a postage paid reply envelope, I like to share the wealth. I will take that unsolicited credit card offer from Chase, remove the application and any identifying information, and put it in the reply envelope for the unsolicited offer from Bank of America. Rinse and repeat with any other junk mail that includes a postage paid envelope so everyone gets to both open crap they didn't ask for, and pay for return postage on it.

i love doing that... seems like capital ones send me 2-3 every week. i end up sending them stuff from my recycle bin.

An astute chain-breaker, Laryn (of larynandjanel.com) spoke with a local post office representative, who explained how business reply mail works. In Laryn's words:

"It is possible that bulk mailers who send in such high quantity can get a $0.02 mail-back fee for their business reply envelopes, but this fee is added on top of the regular first class postage rate.

"So while it may cost them a penny to mail you the junk, it'll cost them at least 40¢ to receive it back... On top of this, I wanted to double check that adding additional papers into the envelope would increase the amount that they pay, since I've heard conflicting versions of that, too. It will."

 

[MadAmos]

Follow steps one and two as outlined here I did several years ago and my junk mail volume decreased by 90%. the optoutprescreen has stopped the credit card offers 100%

 

[HappyPuppy]

I welcome all the bulk junkmail I get. At least it isn't bills!

 

[shortylickens]

My biggest problem is I just moved to back to Virginia so I could live at home and go to school full time.

Virginia and Maryland are insane with the politics. If you register to vote you will be added to all parties mega-lists of junk mail.
I get one thing from each candidate every day between August and December.
The stuff after election day is all their leftovers. They dont want to put it all in landfills because that looks wastefull. So they mail the fuckers out which instantly go into landfills.

Even worse are all the cocksuckers knocking on the door. I think I'll start a new thread on that.

 

[boomerang]

http://www.junkbusters.com/junkmail.html

I used item #4 on Capital One credit card offers. Worked like a charm. Read it, it's deliciously evil and legal!