Tuesday, November 6, 2007
How to opt-out of Catalog Junk Mail
Ok. I am a little green and I guess that is my motivation for this post. However, it is a productive thing as well.
So there it is, I can not only be environmentally friendly but productive also. I am talking about eliminating all the junk catalogs we receive. I saw a simple post on a great environmental blog by Jennifer Bowles from the Press Enterprise. Her Blog http://www.beloblog.com/Pe_Blogs/environment/ had a recommendation for opting-out of paper heavy catalogs. What a great idea. Christy and I have this issue with catalogs and mail. It is a challenge for us to throw this stuff away. We want to read some of them, however they just keep stacking up and cluttering our desk.
What’s the saying with mail? “Touch it once…”. If I’d only learn…
Well, we’ll touch it numerous times before it ends in the wastebasket. So this idea works for me. If I can eliminate the source of the problem (the catalogs) then I can not only save a few trees, but be a little more productive and have a less messy desk.
There is a free online service called http://www.catalogchoice.org/ that will contact these companies that send the catalogs to you and have them stopped. I tried it and it only took a few minutes.
According to the groups that sponsor this project, 19 billion catalogs are mailed to American consumers each year. They said that translates into 53 million trees and 3.6 million tons of paper.
Robert
http://www.robertandchristy.com/
So there it is, I can not only be environmentally friendly but productive also. I am talking about eliminating all the junk catalogs we receive. I saw a simple post on a great environmental blog by Jennifer Bowles from the Press Enterprise. Her Blog http://www.beloblog.com/Pe_Blogs/environment/ had a recommendation for opting-out of paper heavy catalogs. What a great idea. Christy and I have this issue with catalogs and mail. It is a challenge for us to throw this stuff away. We want to read some of them, however they just keep stacking up and cluttering our desk.
What’s the saying with mail? “Touch it once…”. If I’d only learn…
Well, we’ll touch it numerous times before it ends in the wastebasket. So this idea works for me. If I can eliminate the source of the problem (the catalogs) then I can not only save a few trees, but be a little more productive and have a less messy desk.
There is a free online service called http://www.catalogchoice.org/ that will contact these companies that send the catalogs to you and have them stopped. I tried it and it only took a few minutes.
According to the groups that sponsor this project, 19 billion catalogs are mailed to American consumers each year. They said that translates into 53 million trees and 3.6 million tons of paper.
Robert
http://www.robertandchristy.com/
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