Cleaning Out The Mailbox, Saving Companies Money and Reducing Waste

Who sold my information?

That’s a question my wife and I often ask each other. Several times a week, or so it seems, we receive a new catalog from some company — JCrew, LL Bean, a random home furnishings store we’ve never heard of. It’s always fun to look through them and pick out what we would buy if we were trying to get back into debt.

The point is, we don’t need all these catalogs we never requested. And so we’ve tried to put a stop to them by calling some of the companies and requesting that we be taken off the mailing lists. Yeah, right - it couldn’t be that easy. Catalogs still flood our mailbox.

Being amateurs of the “remove our names from your mailing lists game,” we failed to get the results we expected. So it appears that we’ll have to enlist the help of a professional. In this case, that professional is Catalog Choice, a free service that helps you get your name removed from mailing lists. The process seems simple: sign up, find the catalogs you no longer want to receive and sit back and see (or in this case, you won’t see) the results. As a bonus, if you continue receiving unwanted catalogs after you use the service, they will follow up with the merchant.

So I’m off to sign up for Catalog Choice.

In a follow up post, I will review the process and the effectiveness of this service. Wish us luck!

March 25, 2008 | Filed Under Organization, environment 

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2 Responses to “Cleaning Out The Mailbox, Saving Companies Money and Reducing Waste”

  1. KillerRoo on March 27th, 2008 4:17 pm

    Good luck getting off the catalog lists! If this doesn’t satisfy your needs, you may want to investigate Green Dimes, which (if their hype is accurate) should take you off Junk Mail lists as well. They also plant trees for each account. I’ve not yet signed up for the service, I plan to soon!

    http://www.greendimes.com/

  2. JSB on March 27th, 2008 5:05 pm

    KillerRoo, thanks for that link. I checked out that site, and it looks awesome. I had never heard of them before. Perhaps I’ll use them to stop other junk mail that I receive.

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