OT: Is there a junkmail equivalent to the "Do Not Call List"? It really gets annoying when

[furfoot]

I get mail by-the-pound and it's all garbage, plus mail for people who don't live at my address. Has anyone had success in stopping the deluge of unwanted mail?

 

[Ten Thousan Marbles]

I get mail by-the-pound and it's all garbage, plus mail for people who don't live at my address. Has anyone had success in stopping the deluge of unwanted mail?

The USPS makes it's nut on junk mail. They have zero incentive to help getting that cut back.

 

[Marshall30]

I get mail by-the-pound and it's all garbage, plus mail for people who don't live at my address. Has anyone had success in stopping the deluge of unwanted mail?

Yes there is. You need to google Direct Mailing or Marketing Assn. can't remember which. I think you can sign up on line.

 

[Nittany_Roar]

Direct Marketing Association -- DMAchoice.org

Also, there is an app I tried for a little bit, can't recall the name, where you take a picture of junk mail and if it's in their system they send a notice to the mailer to take you off their list. It was maybe 50-50 when I tried it and that was years ago, so it might be a better option now.

You also can put a fraud alert on your credit report. That keeps you from getting (many) credit card mailers.

 

[Fox Chapel Lion II]

Here's how to fix their wagon. Make them PAY for clogging up your mailbox with their trash. Those Business Reply envelopes are there for a reason. Take Junker A's junk mail, and junk it back to Junker B using their reply envelope. Then return the favor by taking B's and send it to A.

Obviously you need to remove your name and address from anything you send back to the junkers, but it is a small inconvenience to make them pay the postage PLUS pay somebody to sort out the trash. And you get the priceless satisfaction of getting over on The Man.

To hell with signing up for their DMA list. All that does is tell them they have a live body on the other end so you'll wind up getting EVEN MORE junk.

 

[Nittany_Roar]

Paper Karma. That was the app I was trying to think of.

I signed up for the DMA thing, did the fraud alert, and used Paper Karma and my junk mail did dip a decent amount. I still get more mail starting now through Christmas with all the catalogs trying to get me to buy stuff.

 

[kgilbert78]

Here's how to fix their wagon. Make them PAY for clogging up your mailbox with their trash. Those Business Reply envelopes are there for a reason. Take Junker A's junk mail, and junk it back to Junker B using their reply envelope. Then return the favor by taking B's and send it to A.

Obviously you need to remove your name and address from anything you send back to the junkers, but it is a small inconvenience to make them pay the postage PLUS pay somebody to sort out the trash. And you get the priceless satisfaction of getting over on The Man.

To hell with signing up for their DMA list. All that does is tell them they have a live body on the other end so you'll wind up getting EVEN MORE junk.

I used to do that--until the crazy guy with the white powder started his thing (I've actually seen the mailbox used in the back in the US Postal Museum). Didn't think it was fair--even to the folks that send that junk. I have a recycle bin by my door. Only takes a second.

And we did ask for our names to be put in the no junk mail list--it helped. Of course, the 3rd class ads addressed to "resident" or "occupant" will still get through, as that's a different kind of mail.

 

[hagberg]

Here's how to fix their wagon. Make them PAY for clogging up your mailbox with their trash. Those Business Reply envelopes are there for a reason. Take Junker A's junk mail, and junk it back to Junker B using their reply envelope. Then return the favor by taking B's and send it to A.

Obviously you need to remove your name and address from anything you send back to the junkers, but it is a small inconvenience to make them pay the postage PLUS pay somebody to sort out the trash. And you get the priceless satisfaction of getting over on The Man.

To hell with signing up for their DMA list. All that does is tell them they have a live body on the other end so you'll wind up getting EVEN MORE junk.

I used to do something similar, but I'd send it back to the same people with a big "NO THANK YOU" written across the offer. Only, however, if it included a postage paid envelope. Now it just goes in the recycle bin.