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CathyA
10-19-16, 8:58am
It was bad enough receiving mail from every insurance company out there for Medicare from about age 65, but now they will be sending it every year around this time, in hopes of us changing our choices for supplement, and prescription........and for DH and I separately.

I fill a grocery bag full of junk mail every week to take to recycling. I tried to quit my local newspaper service years ago. I quit paying.......but they still send me the paper free 2-3x a week. I've called local various dentist/insurance/etc. businesses and told them to take us off their mailing list, but they keep sending the junk.
But this time is worse because of the Medicare stuff. Poor trees. They don't stand a chance here in the U.S.
Rogar
10-19-16, 10:03am
My local paper kept dropping off free Sunday papers a couple of Sundays a month. The second time I complained I threatened to report them for littering. It was probably an idle threat, but the second call worked.
Tammy
10-19-16, 12:02pm
Every once in a while I gather up all of my junk mail, and instead of simply recycling it, I use their own postage paid envelope to send back the address label portion of the junk mail. I write on it "please remove me from your mailing list".

This usually works. It costs them something and I keep doing it until they remove me. 😄
iris lilies
10-19-16, 1:48pm
I am so mad at a company that sends DH tons of "professional" journals. Things like Pet Food Industry News and Food manufacturng professional and Packaging World and on and on. They call to "verify his address" and I tell them no, stop sending these things, he hasnt worked in that indistry for 30 years, but they just keep coming. I have tried to stop them online, no luck.DH may be circumventing me here, dont know. He wants one of them but not all of them, but I suspect it is one mailing list. The publishers basically sell advertising and want to be able to brag on the number of "subscibers."

i was successful several years ago in ridding our household of clothing catalogs. They are starting to creep in again.
Rogar
10-19-16, 1:55pm
In the past I've been able to discontinue catalogs by calling the 1-800 number most of them show for ordering and customer service. My catalog mail has been creeping up too. It can get bad over the holidays.
jp1
10-20-16, 8:50pm
Is it really that simple to stop the catalogs? SO buys a lot of gifts from catalogs. He never looks at the ines that come in the mail. He goes online and picks out his purchases, so i'd really like to stop the mail. I just put them all straight in the compost bin so they can be turned into wine. (Much of our compost is bought by the grape farmers north of the city.)
iris lilies
10-20-16, 9:20pm
Is it really that simple to stop the catalogs? SO buys a lot of gifts from catalogs. He never looks at the ines that come in the mail. He goes online and picks out his purchases, so i'd really like to stop the mail. I just put them all straight in the compost bin so they can be turned into wine. (Much of our compost is bought by the grape farmers north of the city.)

I dont have a factual answer, but I do think that once you start buying from them online, they blast you with printed materials. I suppose that the policsy of each company differs.
Rogar
10-20-16, 9:53pm
It takes just a minute or two to try. It's worked for me in the past but isn't 100% and I've had to call twice to some.
freshstart
10-21-16, 5:45pm
isn't there a list where you can sign up to stop junk mail or is that only for unwanted telephone calls?
CathyA
11-1-16, 1:50pm
I've registered on an online site to stop getting junk mail, but it continues. I've called some local places and it's easier for them to just destroy trees than remove my name.

This society makes it much too easy to destroy nature. It makes me so mad.

Almost ALL our mail is junk. Yesterday we got mail from local insurance companies, the NRA (why?), reminders to renew my one magazine that doesn't expire until late next year, Kroger coupons of things I've never ever bought, etc., and of course that local newspaper that I don't want, but it keeps coming. I wish we could leave everything in the mailbox we didn't want, and it would be returned to the company. ....like that would ever happen. I'm just so danged frustrated at there being no expectations for people to take care of the earth. Why? ........'cause that would be trampling on individual's rights. Or "they" are waiting for people to do the right things. Forget it........they ain't gonna. :devil: