|
|
|
These are steps you can take a person to reduce your junk mail: |
- Contact the Direct Marketing Association to be removed from many companies' mass marketing mailing lists
- Call these major marketing companies to be removed from their mailing list: Val-Pak Coupons (1-800-676-6878), America Online Discs (1-800-827-6364), and Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes (1-800-645-9242).
- Call the credit reporting industry's toll-free number, 1-888-567-8688 (24 hours a day) to stop receiving unsolicited credit card offers.
- Product warranty cards are often used to collect information on your habits and income, for the sole purpose of targeting direct mail. They are not required in most situations - avoid sending them.
- Avoid mail-in rebate offers. The most important purpose of mail-in rebates for the companies is to collect your contact information
- Avoid participating ruffles. Their sole purpose is again to get your contact information.
- Once you receive the unwanted mail, write "refused" or "refused: return to sender" across the address, cross out the bar code, and drop in any mailbox. If it is 'First Class' mail, it will be returned to the sender. If it is 'Presorted Standard' (third class) mail, there is an 80% chance that you will be taken off the senders mailing list.
|
| |
 |
|
|