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O/T junk mail and how to deal with it any ideas?

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havvey

08-10-2007 08:06:41

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we have all been there go to mailbox and we need a wheelbarrow to bring mail in. Most of it is cataloges you don't want or buy from. Latly I have bben calling them and removing my name seems to help a little. Some will give you a hard time. The post office will not return it only first class. any ideas on this? yes it has been going on for years. The do not call list has helped on the phones a lot. Thanks to all

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ozarker

08-10-2007 15:02:38

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Re: O/T junk mail and how to deal with it any ideas? in reply to havvey, 08-10-2007 08:06:41

Contact the Direct Mail Marketing Association. They have a do not mail list similar to the do not call list. It won't get rid of all of it but you will see a major decline in 6 months or so. Ozarker

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havvey

08-10-2007 16:56:44

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Re: O/T junk mail and how to deal with it any ideas? in reply to ozarker, 08-10-2007 15:02:38

thanks that was the most sane reply so far.

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Kevin Meier Iowa

08-10-2007 14:18:42

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Re: O/T junk mail and how to deal with it any ideas? in reply to havvey, 08-10-2007 08:06:41

If it has a return self addressed stamped envelope I cut the papers up into little pieces inside and put them in other junk mail addressed envelopes and mail them back. Just as well get something back. After all they paid for it.

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georgeky

08-10-2007 11:23:10

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Re: O/T junk mail and how to deal with it any ideas? in reply to havvey, 08-10-2007 08:06:41

A friend of mine told me he ask his mailman to stop putting it in his box. The mailman told him he had to, so Doug just kept leaving it in there and he claims that after a couple months he did stop putting it in there as there was no room for it.

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RVS

08-10-2007 11:07:09

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Re: O/T junk mail and how to deal with it any ideas? in reply to havvey, 08-10-2007 08:06:41

We have a box in the corner by the hall,we fill it up and then it goes into the outdoor furnace to heat the house.I fyou keep all the paper through the summer months you would be suprised at the pile you have by fall. I just consider it BTU's as I walk back from the mailbox.Somehow I haven't been able to stop the bills from coming either.Oh well some day.

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Gorilla

08-10-2007 10:56:27

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Re: O/T junk mail and how to deal with it any ideas? in reply to havvey, 08-10-2007 08:06:41

I agree that junk mail is annoying but one consolation to getting junk mail is that it helps keep our postal rates one of the cheapest in the world. The postal service is usually already delivering to that box anyway no matter if it is one piece of mail or 10. The companies get bulk rate most of the time but their mail usually comes "presorted" so it is real easy for the post office. I dont know how we stand now but our postage used to be about half of what it is in great britain.

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John (MO)

08-10-2007 09:27:25

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Re: O/T junk mail and how to deal with it any ideas? in reply to havvey, 08-10-2007 08:06:41

I make sure and send something back to them in every prepaid return envelope I get. I chuckle to myself every time I do it. Cheaper than therapy!

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dan hill

08-11-2007 05:08:21

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Re: O/T junk mail and how to deal with it any ideas? in reply to John (MO), 08-10-2007 09:27:25

A flattened dog food can makes a good return item for prepaid envelopes.

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Steve Crum

08-10-2007 09:12:37

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Re: O/T junk mail and how to deal with it any ideas? in reply to havvey, 08-10-2007 08:06:41

I told the local postmaster to order a dump truck to deliver my mail. I told him I was going to build a junk mail fired boiler to heat my house and 2 shop buildings. Then I would get on every mailing list I could, and the post office could be delivering my heating fuel free. For some reason he didn't seem real keen on that idea, must live in town or something.

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Bus Driver

08-10-2007 08:55:47

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Re: O/T junk mail and how to deal with it any ideas? in reply to havvey, 08-10-2007 08:06:41

The output of a cross-cut shredder makes wonderful garden mulch. Even severe winds will not move it much. That's where our junk mail goes.

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Dave from MN

08-10-2007 08:41:31

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Re: O/T junk mail and how to deal with it any ideas? in reply to havvey, 08-10-2007 08:06:41

We send old coupons, sunflower seed hulls, and when I am bored I write enough to make it look like it is a legitimate response, then I make a few good swipes with a glue stick, put it in the envelope, rub it down good, and send it back in their postage paid envelope. On the days I am an Adult, i have a "do not contact me, do not share or sell my info, and remove me from your database" type of letter. That last one works everytime and even have gotten confirmation letters with an apology.

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Jimmy King

08-10-2007 08:31:19

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Re: O/T junk mail and how to deal with it any ideas? in reply to havvey, 08-10-2007 08:06:41

If my wife were still alive she would be 65 in Sept. for a while I was getting mail wanting to sell her suppliment Ins to go Medicare. I sent one back and told them they should do their homework she had been dead for 3 1/2 years. They sent we an apoligy letter, and suddonly I stopped getting this kind of mail for her.

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rhouston

08-10-2007 08:19:16

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Re: O/T junk mail and how to deal with it any ideas? in reply to havvey, 08-10-2007 08:06:41

Someone once posted on YT their solution

take the junk from one peice of junk mail and place it in the post paid envolope of another piece of junk mail and send it in. This is reported to work. I have not tried it but thought it was a neat solution.

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don t-9n180179

08-10-2007 09:08:20

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Re: O/T junk mail and how to deal with it any ideas? in reply to rhouston, 08-10-2007 08:19:16

I do this all the time. I still get the junk.

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Mike M

08-10-2007 08:18:24

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Re: O/T junk mail and how to deal with it any ideas? in reply to havvey, 08-10-2007 08:06:41

I heard of a fellow that heats his house with it ? How about a steam powered car ran off of it.

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Red Dog Farm

08-10-2007 18:46:24

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Re: O/T junk mail and how to deal with it any ideas? in reply to Mike M, 08-10-2007 08:18:24

Ahhh, folks, ahhhh, some of us pay our bills by being in direct mail, or bulk business mail.

Please order more cataloges, use them for starting fire, weed blocks, whatever, but please need to pay my bills.

Just one of the folks trying to make a living by making sure the you get your cataloges and name and info is sold to all the other retailers.

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