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How To Stop Junk Mails?

If you want to live a more eco-friendly lifestyle, here’s something you can do that will help protect the environment and preserve your sanity: minimize the amount of junk mail you receive by almost ninety percent. As per the information received from sources such as the Center for a New American Dream (CNAD)—a Maryland-based nonprofit organization that helps people consume dutifully to guard the environment, augment quality of life, and promote social justice—reducing the amount of junk mail you receive will save natural resources, energy, tax dollars, landfill space and a lot of your personal time. For instance: about six million tons of catalogs and other direct mail advertisements end up in U.S. It is also estimated that the average American household receives unsolicited junk mail equal to 1.5 trees every year—more than 100 million trees for all households of the United States. Almost forty four percent of junk mail is thrown away unopened, but only half of all junk mail goes to recycling. On an average Americans pay three hundred and seventy million dollars annually to dispose of junk mail that doesn’t get recycled. In the entire course of their life Americans spend eight months opening junk mail in the course of their lives.

But you can really stop this nuisance going on in your life if you are determined to do so. All you need to do as a first step is to register yourself with the Mail Preference Service of the Direct Marketing Association (DMA). Although, it would not assure you a life free of junk mail, but it can help. First thing that DMA will do is that it will list you in its database in the "Do Not Mail" category. Generally, direct marketers are not required to check the database, but many companies that send large volumes of bulk mail do use the DMA service. All they understand is that there is no percentage in routinely sending mail to people who do not want it and have taken action to prevent it.

It is very important to contact companies that send you mail in order to permanently get rid of their e-mails. Simply registering with these services may not leave enough space in your mailbox and in addition you should ask all of the companies you patronize to place your name on their "do not promote" or "in-house suppress" lists. In case if you do business with a company by mail, it should be on your contact list.

For taking extra precaution, some organizations recommend that you track where companies are getting your name by using a slightly different name whenever you subscribe to a magazine or begin a new mail relationship with a company. One easy formula is to give yourself fictional middle initials that match the name of the company. For example if your name is Alberto.D.Vasco and you subscribe to xtrapills, just give your name as Alberto.D.Vasco, and ask the magazine not to rent your name. If you ever receive a piece of junk mail from other companies addressed to Alberto.D.Vasco, you’ll know where they got your name.