Are you fed up of unwanted mails? Is your mailbox flooded with junk mails waiting to be disposed off in the dustbin? If yes, then you sure need to find some way out of this trouble of constantly receiving junk mails.
Most people hardly understand it but reducing the amount of junk mails would save our environment to a great extent. The problem of deforestation would reduce and the global warming issue would be resolved to a great extent. All we need to do for all these benefits is stop junk mails. It is an established fact that only 22 percent of the junk mails received by the people in U.S go for recycling and 44 percent of them are thrown way.
The simple solutions to stopping junk mails is registering on Mail Preference Service of DMA, removing your name from the mortgage, insurance and similar companies, directly contacting the companies sending you such junk mails, watch out if anyone gets to know your mailing address and then sends in junk mails. Register with GreenDimes, Proquo etc these companies protect you against the junk mail.
If you receive a mail through first class mail, cut mark the address and draw a circle around the postage and write ‘refused. Return to sender’. By dropping this mail in any of mailboxes, it will be sent back to the sender. In case you receive catalogues from companies, just fax them back by writing ‘ATTN: customer service’ and your instructions on it.
GreenDimes is a company offering services to get rid of junk mails. You just need to pay a nominal onetime fee. Whenever you receive a junk mail, go to GreenDimes type the name of the sender and you would be removed from the mailing list of that company.
Proquo is another effective solution providing company to ditch the junk mails. The best thing about ProQuo is that it offers services free of cost! Log on to their website and enjoy the benefits. Similarly, Catalogue Choice and 41pounds.org are sites that offer junk mail reduction services. OptOutPreScreen.com is a website where you can disassociate yourself from mortgage, credit card and insurance providing companies.
Direct Marketing Association has Mail Preference services. You may choose to register with it. They will put you in the ‘Do not mail’ category. This will ensure that you do not receive any marketing mails.
You can also choose to contact the companies directly sending you junk mails. Ask them to add your name on their ‘do not promote’ list to put an end to your junk mail problem.
Consumer Research Institute has developed Stop the Junk Mail Kit. This is quite useful in ending the problem of constant receipt of junk mails.
So adopt any method you feel comfortable it is going to work wonders and put an end to the problem of junk mails. Simple steps can lead to saving up of a lot of paper that is made by cutting trees. Your small initiatives can be big contributions to global issues.
