The average person receives about 41 pounds of junk mail every year. While most of us recycle the junk we get, there is a better way of getting rid of the mail before we get it - simply having them not send it at all.
I have discovered that there are many different ways you can go about this. Some make you pay others do not. I prefer free which in these examples may not completely be the case.
www.donotmail.org has you sign a petition to create a national registry for the do not mail campaign. In the meantime you can use their tool to create a pre-printed pdf that you can print, stamp and send to many of the companies that are responsible for filling your mailbox with junk. It's not completely paper-less but that's why you sign the petition - so there will be an online registry one day.
DMAChoice.org is the Direct Marketing Association's website which can help you get rid of even more junk. Once you register you can chose what Catalogs, Magazine Offers, and Other Mail offers you receive. You can stop them all or pick and choose the ones you want.
It's a step in the right direction for many of us 'recyclers'. Now you'll have more time to toil in the garden instead of sorting through the junk.
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