Get rid of unwanted catalogs!

Apparently on the Today show (I think the episode that aired today) they gave out a free website where you can stop receiving catalogs you currently get in the mail. It sounded pretty cool. You register with the site, and then choose from the list and you pick which ones you don't want. You need to have the catalog on you for the key code. So the next time you get a junk catalog, one that's not even worthy for bathroom material, hang onto it and enter the key code from the back on the site. Everyone benefits! Saves the companies money from making the catalogs and spending postage, the environment from the excess paper, and my mailman from adding even more crap to my mailbox.



http://www.catalogchoice.org/


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I got this today, and thought I’d add it on to this post … not a bad idea!

Junk Mail

When you get ‘ads’ enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these 'ads' with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.

When you get those ‘pre-approved' letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, don't throw away the return envelope. Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes. It costs them more than the regular 41 cents postage 'IF' and when they receive them back.

It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before the last increase and is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.

One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas:

Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back!

If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them. You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 41 cents.

Help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea!