How do you stop junk mail from coming to your house?

Answer 1

Great question. While we can recycling junk mail, energy goes into its production and its much better to go without. There are a few online resources that might be useful to you.

1. http://www.catalogchoice.org
This website will help you unsubscribe from retailer's catalog mailing lists.

2. http://www.proquo.com
This website will help you get off of marketing mailing lists so you stop receiving coupons, credit card offers, and similar stuff.

3. http://www.greendimes.com
This is a paid site, but I've read that their service can stop all of your junk mail very effectively.

Good luck!

Answer 2

The only way to stop it, for a while at least is to move. The idea from Sparkles is a great one since the junk mailer has to pay for the weight of the envelope and pay someone to open it. A trick I use is when I deal with companies (other then official business like my bank) I use a fake name or a name I don't usually use so I know right away the mail is unsolicited. It doesn't stop it but it does help me identify the junk faster.

Answer 3

only a minute.......no longer all direct mail is junk. I continually open each and every thing as there is usually an exceptionally good deal. I gained an entire encompass sound televison by using 'unsolicited mail' on yet another occasion i offered a chew of application marketed in unsolicited mail which became out to be the main suitable ingredient I ever offered. DONT BIN IT until YOUV'E study IT.

Answer 4

You've already recieve som great answers to your question. My additional thought on top of the answers you have already recieved is you need to be careful who you send money to, and what magazines you recieve.

I subscribed to the Sierra club once (and never again). I went from recieving almost no junk mail to being flooded with 10 to 20 pounds of the junk every month! I was completely shocked.

I kept tossing it in a laundry basket and would weigh it. It was completely stunning to me that a group that reportedly wants to save the enviromnet was doing so much damage when they sold my name and address.

When you subscribe to magazines, you can easily find out if they are selling your name. Let's say your name is John Q. Public, and you wish to subscribe to National Geographic. On the subscription from, put John N.G. Public.

If junk mail arrives addressed to John N.G. Public, you'll know who sold your name.

~Garnet
Who subscribes to four magazines which do NOT sell her name.

Answer 5

You don't. Just throw it away. Junk mail helps a lot with keeping the price of postage down. Without bulk business mail, there would no longer be a post office.

Answer 6

just put a sign on your door "saying no junk mail.any junk mail sent will be returned" and if you get any junk mail just give it to the post man again or leave it on the door step.

Answer 7

Junk mail lists are sold by the three major credit bureaus: TransUnion, Equifax, and Experian. By writing to them and requesting them to remove you from their "pre-screened" offers this amount of junk mail you receive will drop tremendously. Plus, identity thieves use discarded credit card solicitations as a way to rip you off. Good luck.

Answer 8

You can request at the post office that all junk mail be held.

Answer 9

If there is a self addressed envelope put all the crap in it and mail it back. I have done this numerous times, and now I do not get as much unwanted mail. I have also included stuff they didn't send in the self addressed envelopes.