Comments on: Junk Mail That Makes Me Crazy

By: Jean Henry Mead

Jean Henry Mead — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:39:00 +0000

I’m the junk mail queen. I receive a stack of mail 5-6 inches high nearly every day. I even get books I didn’t order and letters demanding that I pay for them. Next time I move, I’m having an unlisted address.

By: Darling Nikki

Darling Nikki — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:13:00 +0000

When I was 17 (I’m now 35!) I sent away for some information regarding a correspondence course. I left home, moved 5 times to 3 differents states. My parents still receive “special” offers from them (for me)!

By: Teresa M Burrell

Teresa M Burrell — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:50:00 +0000

I have been fighting for years to get rid of junk mail in order to save our trees. I never read any of it. It goes straight from the mailbox to the recycle trash bin. I finally have been able to stop most of it. I had to call or fax companies directly to stop them. But it has been successful for the most part.

My sister has been married to her husband for twenty years. He is living in her home that she had prior to their marriage. She gets mail addressed to her husband's ex-wife who, of course, has never lived there. How they get these addresses is amazing.

Thanks, Jennifer, for the web address.

By: Charlotte Phillips

Charlotte Phillips — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:25:00 +0000

Catalogs. Because I'm on the road so much and rarely have time to stroll through a store, I do most of my gift shopping online. The downside is I have give a billing address for the cc. They use that to send their catalog, which is bad enough, but each catalog is only one of many from a parent company. So I get ALL the parent company catalogs. Sometimes I receive 2 and 3 copies of the same catalog on the same day. I never look at any of them. They go straight into the recycle bin.

I used to work with a lady who was willing to call and harass each individual company until they took me off the mailing list. She really enjoyed doing this. I miss her.

By: Marian Allen

Marian Allen — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:10:00 +0000

Jennifer–THANK YOU for that link! I have an old Direct Mail Preferences address that I clipped from Ann Landers many years ago. It’s still working for us. We get very little junk mail, since we wrote to them, and the link you gave goes even farther (further?) Here’s to saving trees–and lowering our blood pressure!

By: Jennifer Roland

Jennifer Roland — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:13:00 +0000

Here’s a link to a great post about reducing the amount of junk mail you receive: http://www.fightidentitytheft.com/junkmail.html

By: Lisa Logan

Lisa Logan — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:56:00 +0000

Yeah, junk mail is an environmentalist’s nightmare. My personal favorites are the ones that look like a check. They sucker my husband every time. He plops the prospective winfall in my lap, the look in his eyes suggestive of a hope that I’ve earned some extra royalty check or won a lottery I never entered.

“It’s just junk mail,” I say, and the hope in those eyes dims a bit more each time. I’ll give those mailers this much–the “Made Ya Look” factor is high. Otherwise, junk mail is nothing more useful than scratch drawing/coloring paper for my daughter.

–Lisa
http://authorlisalogan.blogspot.com

By: Angie Ledbetter

Angie Ledbetter — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:44:00 +0000

Wish there was a NO JUNK MAIL form to fill out similar to the NO SALES CALLS form. Thank goodness for recycling.

By: Meg

Meg — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:34:00 +0000

When you move and forward your address at the post office, the magazine people find out from there some how.

We moved, I was trying to figure out how to change our address with a magazine, and it showed up in the mail with the new address like it had always been coming here.

I get junk mail for people that have our last name, but have never lived here and we don't know them. Problem with having a common name. I just write 'doesn't live here' with an arrow to the guys name and stick it back in the box. Works for a bit.

By: L.J. Sellers

L.J. Sellers — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:19:00 +0000

Wow! That tops everything. Do you suppose we’ll ever ban those mass mailings for environmental reasons? Or to save the postal service money? Seems like such a good idea.