I don’t like anything in general that is wasteful. Junk mail is nothing but wasteful. It wastes the paper that it was printed on, it wastes postage to send it, it wastes labor and energy along with about at least half a dozen other things I didn’t mention.
Most of my junk mail comes from the financial industry. Our household gets an average of a credit card application each day of the week. We get just a little less junk mail from the insurance companies and we still get a couple of pieces a week about refinancing our house.
So considering the state of Wall Street, I am wondering if all the junk mail is going to come to a stop, or at least a sharp decline. Besides all of the wasteful items I listed above how much actual money do you the financial industry spends to send out this junk mail?
Stopping junk mail and turning off the lights isn’t going to fix the mess they are in. But both are at least a place to stop wasting money and energy.
Tim said,
October 9, 2008 at 3:28 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 I post n relevant Blogs.
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 5700 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. So check out MyJunkTree and make difference in your mailbox.
liajo said,
October 9, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Thanks for the commet. I can understand why you charge a fee for the service. I’ll certainly check it out and probably but a link on the blog.