How can I reduce the amount of paper junk mail I get?

Question

What a waste of paper! I've called the companies to complain, to no avail. What can I do?

I do recycle them. But they're not usually printed on recycled paper, so trees are still being chopped down to make them! I want them to stop producing and sending this stuff that no one ever reads anyway.

Answer 1

Go to www.optout.com. Fill out the form and you will see your junk mail start to dwindle and after 30 days you will have almost none. I did this 6 months ago and unfortunately, everytime I log on somewhere or use my credit card or write a check my information is sold to companies so I need to do it again. But it really did work for about 6 months.

Answer 2

If you have already tried contacting companies about sending you junk mail and they cannot take you off their list of recipients than I would suggest that you save all the paper junk mail you get and bring it to a recycling center. This would be more helpful than just throwing it away.

Answer 3

Concept, save all the junk mail from different companies, example home depot, get all your friends to do the same. When the pile is large enough, paper mache a tree, as big as you can and park it outside their door step, telling them where to go with their flyers. Give it back to them in a very awkward and noticeable, yet legal way.

Answer 4

Usually there is a number in the small print on the back of the paper and then you call that number and unsubscribe much like email and I have heard that if they contact you again then you can sue them for harassment

Answer 5

To avoid the problem altogether, just don't give away your phone number or address to unwanted or unneeded advertisers. However, if it's paper you are already recieveing, call to request a halt in shipment. OR a more effective method if the previous does not work: send it directly back to the sender, and then they will stop sending it to you.

Answer 6

Well when you get the junk mail, you can recycle it so it is a benefit to the environment. Junk mail is annoying... but you can do something good for the environment with it.

Answer 7

Well if you cannot get them to stop, why not just recycle the junk mail.

Answer 8

Don't fill out online forms just to get some cheap freebie like a totebag. Because that company will sell your address to 100 junkmail senders.

Answer 9

I have the same problem!
Don't send them back because all they do is throw them away.
I just recycle them, and honestly, I think that's the best thing you can do.

Answer 10

Return to sender, one thing I do is when I open my phone bill and it has advertising in it, I stick in the envelope and mail it back to phone company and amazingly they stopped putting the advertising in with the bill.