September 13 at 10:29am

Decrease Your Junk Mail

Back in June, we told you how to stop credit solicitations. In August, it was how to opt out of  both credit solicitations and phone sales.   Now is your chance to do the same with junk mail. It’s only in it’s Beta stage, but ProQuo is here to save your day — and a few trees. Did you know:

Each year, 100 million trees are used to produce junk mail in America. That’s the equivalent of deforesting the entire Rocky Mountain National Park every four months.

Americans receive nearly four million tons of junk mail each year.

More than 28 billion gallons of water are wasted to produce and recycle junk mail each year.

Check it out. It’s pretty simple.  They also have a good list of 10 Creative Ideas Of What To Do With Your Junk Mail here.

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  • MyJunkTree

    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 4000 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.

  • William

    And don't forget to sign the petition for a national Do Not Mail Registry at donotmail.org! We need a large showing of popular support in order to get a long-term solution to the problem of junk mail.

    Junk mail's 20th century business model will not help us meet the challenges of the 21st century.

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