How To Stop Junk Mail?
If you have concerns about the safety of the environment, then you can also participate in protecting the environment by reducing the amount (by 90 %) of the junk mail that you receive in a particular duration of time.
According to the studies of CNAD (Center for a New American Dream), you can save natural resources, tax dollars, landfill space, energy and a lot of time by reducing the receiving of the junk mails. Center for a New American Dream is actually a nonprofit organization (Maryland based). This organization participates in- encouraging people about maintaining their responsibility for environment, promoting the social justice and enhancing the quality of life.
Some important facts about junk mails-
1. 5.6 million tons of junk mails (catalogs, advertisement brochures etc) end up in the U.S. landfills per year.
2. On an average, every American household receives the amount of junk mail that costs about 1.5 trees every year (to every household). Collectively this amount is more then 100 million trees for all the U.S households (combined).
3. Only 22 % of the total junk mails follow the procedure of recycling.
4. Americans spend $370 million (per year) in order to dispose the non-recycled junk mail.
5. On an average, Americans spend 8 months of their total life in opening the junk mails.
Some tips to reduce the receiving of junk mails-
Register Your Name
Once you decided about reducing the arrival of junk mails; first step is to register your name with the MPS (Mail Preference Service) of the DMA (Direct Marketing Association). This is not a sure shot method of reducing the arrival of junk mails, but it can surely help you. Actually DMA will list you name in their database of “do not mail” category. This can reduce some of the junk mails.
Contact Companies that are sending you junk mails
If you are damn serious about preventing the arrival of junk mails, then registering to Mail Preference Service is not enough. Just contact the respective companies that are sending you the junk mails and restrict them for further correspondence.
Trace the name selling companies
In order to trace those companies that sell your name to junk senders you should follow a very simple strategy. Whenever you are subscribing services of a new company, alter some of your name initials every time, for example- If your name is Tom Benedict and you are subscribing the magazine “stardust” (SD), then simply register yourself as Tom SD Benedict. And then restrict the magazine to not sell/rent your name to some other company. Now, if you ever receive a junk mail (from some company) which is addressed to Mr. Tom SD Benedict, then it will be clear to you that from where they got your address and name.
Conclusion
By following these methods you can easily reduce the junk mails. So, please make a favor on environment by keeping the junk mails out of your mailbox and finally out of various landfills.
