A Thrity Way to Stop Junk Mail
I don’t know about you, but I can’t stand junk mail!!!!! It drives me crazy. Each day I waste my time sorting through it, putting it in the recyling bin, or shredding it. Some days I’ve even pondered just leaving all the junk mail in my mailbox and only taking out what I need. I’m sure that would really annoy my mailman!
And did you know???? We chop down 100,000,000 trees and waste 28 billions gallons of water EVERY YEAR producing this stuff.
So, on behalf of today, Earth Day, I have an alternative. For a dime-a-day, GreenDimes will reduce the marketing in your home, help you to maintain your privacy and they will plant trees on your behalf. Here’s what they do:
We’ve researched dozens of direct mailers and literally thousands of catalog publishers. We contact them on your behalf and make sure that you STAY off of their lists. There are 4-5 direct mailers that require your signature, however. For those, we’ll send you pre-printed, pre-stamped postcards (on recycled paper, of course) that you can simply sign and drop in the mail. We’ll also register you with the Direct Marketing Association’s Mail Preference Service (MPS) to remove your name from hundreds more mailing lists.
So, what do you think? Is it worth $36 a year to cut down on the number of trees and water we use, the time you spend sorting junk mail, and to help keep your privacy? I think it is!
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8 opinions for A Thrity Way to Stop Junk Mail
kailani
Apr 22, 2007 at 2:10 pm
I would pay $36 a year to save the environment and some of my time!
Kailani
An Island Life
Ramsey Fahel
Apr 23, 2007 at 6:28 am
Do Not Mail Opt-Out Law would be fair to everyone.
The proposed recent “Do not mail” is an Opt-Out law. Only those not desiring advertising mail need opt-out. Anyone desiring advertising mail can do nothing - and continue to receive it. Why deny those wishing to avoid advertising mail the power to do so?
I do not consider handling unwanted advertising placed against my will on my personal property to be a civic obligation!
The US Supreme Court said in the Rowan case in 1970, ““In today’s [1970] complex society we are inescapably captive audiences for many purposes, but a sufficient measure of individual autonomy must survive to permit every householder to exercise control over unwanted mail. To make the householder the exclusive and final judge of what will cross his threshold undoubtedly has the effect of impeding the flow of ideas, information, and arguments that, ideally, he should receive and consider. Today’s merchandising methods, the plethora of mass mailings subsidized by low postal rates, and the growth of the sale of large mailing lists as an industry in itself have changed the mailman from a carrier of primarily private communications, as he was in a more leisurely day, and have made him an adjunct of the mass mailer who sends unsolicited and often unwanted mail into every home. It places no strain on the doctrine of judicial notice to observe that whether measured by pieces or pounds, Everyman’s mail today is made up overwhelmingly of material he did not seek from persons he does not know. And all too often it is matter he finds offensive.”
Furthermore, the Supreme Court said, “the mailer’s right to communicate is circumscribed only by an affirmative act of the addressee giving notice that he wishes no further mailings from that mailer.
To hold less would tend to license a form of trespass and would make hardly more sense than to say that a radio or television viewer may not twist the dial to cut off an offensive or boring communication and thus bar its entering his home. Nothing in the Constitution compels us to listen to or view any unwanted communication, whatever its merit; we see no basis for according the printed word or pictures a different or more preferred status because they are sent by mail.”
We need a nationwide “Do Not Mail” law to create a one-stop, convenient place for homeowners to give senders the aforementioned affirmative notice that we do not want certain kinds of mail sent to our homes.
http://www.newdream.org/emails/ta19.html
Signed,
Ramsey A Fahel
Revka
Apr 23, 2007 at 7:31 am
That sounds wonderful!
Luke's Mommy
Apr 23, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Choosing to “opt-out” on junk mail or not.
Even if we just changed one thing in our life like energy saving light bulbs, using reusable grocery bags or even unplugging 1 appliance. We can make an better “earth” for the next generation. Whatever you choose to do and I will “try” to stop junk mail. Smile and feel that you are making a difference :-)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Luke's Mommy
Apr 23, 2007 at 5:22 pm
P.S. Love this website !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great job Karen and Kelly
Theresa NY
Karen
Apr 23, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Hi Luke’s Mommy. Thanks for visiting. :)
kellys
Apr 24, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Theresa, thanks for the complement. we try to give you what you ask for and want to read. So if you have any ideas or tips, just shoot us an email.
Luke's Mommy
Apr 24, 2007 at 3:55 pm
I will send this website to many of my friends. Thanks to my “fabulous earth conscious sister-in-law Donna, It’s time to make a change. My family and I are enjoying doing it.
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