How To Stop Unwanted Mail
Below are some of the resources available to help stop the flow of unwanted mail before it even comes into the house. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or would like a more customized plan to deal with your mail abundance.
· Credit Card Offers
o (888) 5OPTOUT (888-567-8688)
· Direct Marketing Association (DMA)
o Home Page: www.dmaconsumers.org
o Mail Preference Service: www.dmaconsumers.org/cgi/offmailinglist
o (This will remove your name from national mailing lists for five years)
o Deceased Do Not Contact: www.ims-dm.com/cgi/ddnc.php
o Caretakers Do Not Contact: www.ims-dm.com/cgi/dncc.php
o Elderly & Sweepstakes: www.thedma.org/consumers/olderconsumers.html
· AARP
o 1-888-OUR-AARP (1-888-687-2277)
· Catalogs
o Call the toll free number on the back of the catalog to get off their mailing list.
o Unsubscribe from hundreds at 1 time: www.catalogchoice.org
o Be diligent about recycling the old catalog as soon as the new one arrives
· Newspapers
o If you get the newspaper daily, but don’t read it daily, call the paper and reduce your delivery to only the days that you read.
o Recycle newspapers at least once a week.
· Magazines
o The average person can only read at most 3 magazines a month. Keeping this in mind, try to limit your subscriptions to only the magazines you love.
o To decrease the clutter in your home, remember to recycle the old magazine as soon as the new one arrives.
o If there is an article in the magazine that you love, tear it out and keep it in a binder with other articles you love. This way they are all together and you don’t need to hang on to a magazine full of articles that are no longer of value to you.
· Charities and Nonprofits
o When you make a donation, add a note asking to be removed from their mailing lists.
o When you donate online, look for a box on the site that you can check to indicate that you do want to be contacted in the future
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Time February 20, 2010 at 12:00 pm
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