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Organize Your Home Office, Stop Junk Mail

Published by August 27th, 2008 in Junk Mail Services. 1 Comment

Gidday,
As much as we hate receiving spam in our in-boxes, we still hate junk mail that invades our home office more! With spam, the problem is solved with just one click. But what to do about junk mail? You can’t just gather it all and burn it in your backyard, now can you? So how can you organize your home office to make it efficient and ?

Junk mail is not only polluting our planet and reducing the limited amount of trees that we still have left, but it’s also suffocating your precious living and working space. It’s adding pressure to your daily routine, it’s yet another thing you have to think about, another problem to find a solution for.

What’s even more infuriating is that you didn’t opt-in for any of this! You didn’t choose to receive junk mail to your home office! But despair no more, because there is a solution to your junk mail problems, and you’ll be able to organize your home office as efficient as you’ve ever hoped you would.

Acquire the services of a company that opts you out from all the junk mail lists that you’re on. This will guarantee that you will opt out of unwanted junk mail, and you can really start to organize your home office the way you should.

Try using www.stopthejunkmail.com, an online company specializing in saving you from all the junk mail that’s trying to invade your home office. It’ll help organize your home office quickly!

Cheerio,
Margot

Link to Opt Out of ValPak Flyers

Published by Margot August 19th, 2008 in Advice and Junk Mail Services. 0 Comments

Gidday,

How to opt out of fliers from Valpak is not that difficult but you do need to allow 4-6 weeks before the process is complete.

Enter your full address exactly as you see it on the address label when you click here.

Cheerio,
Margot

Cutting Down Junk Mail

Published by Margot August 19th, 2008 in Junk Mail Services. 0 Comments

Gidday,

Do you hate checking your mailbox at home or at your office because you know it is going to be full of junk mail? Have you ever wondered if there was a solution to cut down on your junk mail once and for all? There is a solution, and it’s only a mouse click away!

At times it seems like every day when we check our mailboxes at home they are full of fliers, sales papers, or some other kind of junk mail. It’s junk mail that will never get read, or opened. It usually goes straight into the trash without a second thought. Have you ever wondered if there is a way to stop the junk mail from filling up your trashcan or recycle bin?

If you are like most people, you are flooded with junk mail. Of course it is possible to go through each piece, contact the senders and ask to be removed from their mailing list. But what if there was an easier way? A way that would ensure that you received no junk mail? A way that did not involve you filling out post cards, spending hours on the phone, and works for both home and businesses?

There is an easy way, that is just a mouse click away. www.stopthejunkmail.com is your one stop shop for putting an end to junk mail, credit card offers, and anything else that clogs up your mailbox, and ends up in the recycle bin.

We have an extensive database of over 9000 listings that you can remove yourself from easily. Once you become a member, we will plant a tree in order to help the environment as well. Not only are you helping the environment by opting out of junk mail, but you are also helping by having a tree planted.

Cheerio,
Margot

Online Mail with Earth Class Mail

Published by Margot August 18th, 2008 in Coporate and New Zealand. 0 Comments

Gidday,

Before we left for our sabbatical in New Zealand we signed up for a brilliant service called Earth Class Mail.

We get all of our mail online including packages, newspapers, statements, magazines. The mail is automatically scanned so we can see who and where it came from. If we want to see more, the documents inside can be scanned also. Of Course we can forward it or print it wherever we are. Everything else we do is online like banking, shopping, stop junk mail, so why not our mail?

If we decide the mail is Junk Mail then we can get it recycled or shredded and don’t ever have to see it again. Of course this would be after we go online to stopthejunkmail.com and stop the catalog!

For us it is a perfect online solution for all of our needs. It’s a one stop shop.

Cheerio,
Margot

Stop Holiday Junk Mail Catalogs Now!

Published by Margot August 18th, 2008 in Advice and Junk Mail Services. 0 Comments

Gidday,

Now is the time to get to work to stop those unwanted Holiday catalogs from coming. You already have the “Back to School” Catalogs I am sure and then it’ll be the Fall issues trying to sell you Halloween and thanksgiving items.

It’s the big push for catalog companies bulk mailing for the busy season. Why now? Well most of these companies are already setting up printing for their holiday issues, planning and photo shoots are under way. Catalog companies don’t do their own mailing, they leave it to bulk mailers so they ship in bulk to the middle man and give them the dates for delivery way in advance.

Start making inroads now before it’s too late.

Cheerio,
Margot

How to Stop Junk Mail

Published by Margot August 12th, 2008 in Advice and Junk Mail Services. 1 Comment

Gidday,

There are lot more very useful Junk Mail services out there to help you stop the catalogs coming to your personal home mailbox. A service such as www.stopthejunkmail.com, 41pounds or greendimes will work for you if you are persistent and stop every catalog that comes to your USPS mail box.

Stopping catalogs isn’t something that happens over night, most direct mail companies will send their catalogs to a bulk mailer up to 3 months in advance of a delivery date. Even if you contact a catalog direct mailer and ask to be removed from their mailing list they will automatically tell you that you may receive 3-4 additional catalogs.

or as Neiman Marcus says”
> We will make every effort to comply with your
> request. Please be advised that the names are
> selected for the mailing list in advance. You may
> receive four to six additional catalogs before
> the removal is complete.”

The second part of the puzzle is to look at the address label carefully each time you stop the catalogs. Your name may appear on the catalog mailing list 3 or 4 times and each time it is spelled differently or has a unique account number. Each of these need to be removed from the list.

A third possibility is that your name was on a rented list. In this case your name will only be added to their private catalog mail preference list if you actually order merchandise.

Cheerio,
Margot

Link to Opt Out of Advo Flyers

Published by Margot August 11th, 2008 in Advice and Junk Mail Services. 0 Comments

Gidday,

What happened to ADVO? Well they got taken over by Valassis last year.

You can still go to www.advo.com/consumersupport.html to opt out of ADVO flyers. It will take 5-6 weeks to become effective.

You can also call Valassis’ Consumer Assistance line toll free at 888-241-6760 (8:30am-5:00pm EST) or print this form and mail it in.

Cheerio,
Margot

Yahoo to Allow Opt Out For Consumers

Published by Margot August 8th, 2008 in Coporate and Junk Mail Services. 0 Comments

Gidday,

I just read in the Wall Street Journal today that Yahoo Inc. and other major online companies(such as Google Inc and Microsoft Corp) were sent letters by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The letter asked the companies to respond to a number of questions related to their ad-targeting practices.

Yahoo Inc. has come out and responded favourably and said it will allow it’s users to Opt Out of receiving targeted ads. This kind of movement centers around whether online advertising violates consumer privacy.

Bravo Yahoo Inc.! I think that this is a huge step towards consumer privacy and ultimately consumers freedom of choice.

At www.stopthejunkmail.com we promote the importance of consumer privacy and choice by enabling our users to opt out of unwanted catalogs and direct mail they receive through the USPS. It is an ever growing problem and to see a company like Yahoo Inc. embrace this kind of privacy online is definitely a sign of the times.

Cheerio,
Margot

Stop Junk Mail in New Zealand

Published by June 23rd, 2008 in Junk Mail Services. 0 Comments

Gidday,

We have only been here a few weeks but have already seen what New Zealand has to offer in the direct mail industry.

The biggest problem I see here is the hand delivered unaddressed flyers, or circulars as they are called here, from advertisers such as KMart, The Warehouse, Mitre10, local newspapers, grocery shops and other major retailers.

Here’s how it works, the retailer will hire a direct marketer to deliver circulars (nothing unusual), then the direct marketer will hire hand deliverers such as mums at home, students, etc.. who need a few extra bucks and “want to get fit” to deliver them to mail boxes in demographic areas. I see these people walking the streets with baby strollers and shopping trolleys full of circulars. The only way to ensure you do not receive these kinds of circulars is to put a sticker on your mailbox that says “No Junk Mail” or “No Circulars”. This works.

A company in New Zealand, also based in Christchurch, called LetterBoxer.org.nz gets volunteers together to go around the streets and give out No Junk Mail stickers for mailboxes. The stickers are free and paid for by city and regional councils like Environment Canterbury.

The other kind of junk mail I have seen so far is from companies that most people have business relationships with, such as banks, insurance, university Alumni, etc… sound familiar?! I have not seen many catalogs as yet, just a few, but to be honest I haven’t been shopping much yet! I know they are around but not to any extent like the USA.

The Ministry of Consumer Affairs in NZ also acknowledges the use of these signs on mailboxes. A section at the bottom of this article indicates that a company has created a “Do Not Mail” list you can add your name to called the Name Removal Service. Consumers can write to the Marketing Association (oh, BTW, previously known as the DMA!) and add their names to the list which in turn reduces the number of unsolicited calls and mailings. Who would have thought, the DMA’s Mail Preference Suppression list all over again. FYI, they do note that “… it will not stop communications from organisations with which you have an existing relationship, e.g. your bank, your lawyer, etc.” I would also assume, which they fail to mention, is that you will only be removed from members mailing lists as it is a members based service!

I find it interesting that no matter where you go the system is pretty much the same, in NZ it is on a much smaller scale however.

Write To: Name Removal Register, Marketing Association, P O Box 47681, Ponsonby, Auckland. You can also .

Cheerio,
Margot

Stop Catalogs Now

Published by Margot June 23rd, 2008 in Junk Mail Services. 0 Comments

Gidday,

We have rolled back the clock here at www.stopthejunkmail.com to 2001. An annual membership is now only $9.95.

Stopthejunkmail.com can help you stop unwanted catalogs and protect your privacy by removing your name from hundreds of direct marketing mailing lists.

Cheerio,
Margot

Organize Your Home Office, Stop Junk Mail

Link to Opt Out of ValPak Flyers

Cutting Down Junk Mail

Online Mail with Earth Class Mail

Stop Holiday Junk Mail Catalogs Now!

How to Stop Junk Mail

Link to Opt Out of Advo Flyers

Yahoo to Allow Opt Out For Consumers

Stop Junk Mail in New Zealand

Stop Catalogs Now

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