Junk Mail

Parent Cafe
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<p>Any one have any idea how to stop junk mail? My parents stayed with us for a couple of months when their new home was under construction, they forwarded their mail to our address.</p>

<p>Now that they have moved on, and forwarded to the new address our box is jammed with every charitable request known to man. Should I return to sender or is there something else I can do?</p>

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<p>Here’s one place you can opt out that I’ve used myself and can vouch for:</p>

<p><a href=“https://www.catalogchoice.org/[/url]”>https://www.catalogchoice.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>You can also try this site - it’s the Direct Marketing Association’s opt-out page:</p>

<p><a href=“https://www.dmachoice.org/MPS/proto1.php[/url]”>https://www.dmachoice.org/MPS/proto1.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>At least junk mail is less invasive than its evil cousin - telemarketer phone calls.</p>

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<p>I haven’t had much luck with catalog choice. I had put over 50 catalogs on their list last winter, kept getting them and updating the list, but now when I check only 12 say confirmed. And one of those I received a catalog from today. I call directly, and some claim I am not on their list, others agree to remove me, but I still get them. I don’t think there is anything you can do about charities, but there is a number to stop receiving unsolicited credit card offers.</p>

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<p>Sometimes I think it works even better than spam. The more you try to get off a list just indicates to them that there’s a real person there and they keep sending.</p>

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<p>And the sponsor ad on the side of the page says
“Stop credit card offers, catalogs, and junk mail! Sign up for FREE and GreenDimes will PAY YOU $1 Sign up!”</p>

<p>(I want a free monkey.)</p>

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<p>And now the sponsor ad at the top of the page says
“STOP PAPER JUNK MAIL!
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<p>(a free llama would do)</p>

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<p>you guys crack me up- free monkey, free monkey- I absolutely never notice the ads, I totally tune them out, like subconscious fingers in my ears and saying lalalala, i just don’t see them
But now I’ll watch for the monkey :D</p>

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<p>Back to the original topic – get a recycling bin and make a stop by there on your way into your home. I pre-sort mail at the bin and it saves a lot of clutter in the house. It does not – alas – keep us from getting unwanted third-class mail.</p>

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<p>Same here. Straight to recycling bin outside front door. Even right in front of postman. Postman: “That’s cold”.</p>

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<p>Even better WAdad, I put in in a basket for my parents, never know when Gpa might want one of those solicitations!</p>

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<p>“Return to Sender” will not work if the pieces were sent by bulk mail, which is generally used by non-profits. Only first class mail (I think) will be returned by the postal service. Since most of the mailings probably used purchased mailing lists, I doubt that contacting the organizations would even help with future mail.</p>

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<p>Okay - add to this list - unwanted phone books from various companies including different kinds of ‘Yellow Pages’ from everone other than the phone company. I get multiple of these littered onto my property by these companies per year. I drop them in the recycle on the way back to the house but they’re still a pain. I’ve contacted them to stop them but it doesn’t work.</p>