So, last december I decided that instead of giving anyone gifts I'd donate money to an assortment of charitable organizations, mostly in honor of trump (or pence if the organization was LGBT related). It was as much work as buying gifts for individual people, but more satisfying and my company will match 2 to 1 any donations I make, up to $5,000 so I felt like I got a lot of bang for my christmas buck.
Now, however, I not only get a steady stream of junk mail from the 15 organizations that I donated to, I get an even bigger stream of mail from at least a dozen other organizations who have bought my name from the first 15. Every month or so I have to wade through an 8 to 10 inch tall stack of junk mail, shred everything with my name and address on it and compost all the rest. And for some reason the worst of the batch are the environmental organizations. Great big envelopes full of pages and pages of begging and even magazines that I won't ever make time to read.
Before this I had signed SO and myself up for the no junk mail list and our mail mainly consisted of a couple of bank/credit card statements, medical bills for SO, and a few catalogs from places that SO buys from. My question, has anyone successfully solved this problem? I don't and will never read any of it and honestly it's making me rethink whether I want to do the same thing this coming Christmas.