I don’t know about you, but I get tons of store catalogs in the mail every month. It drives me crazy because I only look at a fraction of them (you know, the one’s I actually signed up for) and end up throwing the rest in the recycling bin once I get sick of them cluttering my dining room table. It always seems like such a monumental waste to me, so I was glad to read about GreenDimes on Girlawhirl today.
For $16, GreenDimes will help you rid your mailbox of unsolicited catalogs and other junk mail by getting your name off of thousands of mailing lists. There are a few steps involved, but in 8 weeks you’ll see a reduction of retail catalogs, credit card offers and other stuff you never asked for. You can reduce by up to 90% for good, which saves trees, water and dining room tables. Plus, the company plants 10 trees with every mail reduction kit purchase.
Here’s some more inspiration to help you kick the catalogs:
- 100 million trees are cut down each year to create the approximately 4.5 million tons of junk mail in the United States
- 28 billion gallons of water go into the production of American junk mail annually
Okay, I’m sold, but I’m keeping my J.Crew and Anthropologie catalogs.
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Gidday,
I would like to comment on how long it takes to stop postal junk mail. Most major catalogs are bulk mailed about 2-3 mail cycles in advance of the date you are going to receive them. In other words your Xmas catalogs were mailed in September. It takes the mail about 3-4 months to clear from the postal service system, so 8 weeks for a bulk of your mail is a little low on the estimates, some mail will be eliminated in the early stages.
Cheerio,
Margot
There’s a new freeonline service that lets you cancel unwanted catalogs. Catalogchoice.org lets you select the catalogs you don’t want to receive and within 10 weeks, your mailbox will be empty of unwanted catalogs. This service is sponsored by The Ecology Center and endorsed by NRDC. To learn more, visit NRDC’s site simplesteps.org