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Unwanted Catalogs

icon1 Posted by Lisa Sarasohn in Organizing Tips on 04 29th, 2009 | 5 responses

Unwanted catalogs hog your mailbox and consume about 4 million tons of paper a year.  As you sort your new mail over the recycle bin, put aside the catalogs you don’t wish to receive anymore.  You can do one of two things:

1)  Call the company and ask to be removed from the list.  It’s helpful if you have the address page handy, which has your customer number on it.

2)  Go to CatalogChoice.org, which contacts retailers to cancel mailings on your behalf for free.  This mostly works.  In my experience, one annoyingly persistent company had to be called, despite my listing them for removal.

To prevent more unwanted catalogs from showing up, be sure that when you do order something from a catalog, that you ask the sales rep to check off the box on their computer screen to not sell your contact information.

If you do enjoy receiving certain catalogs, why not save a tree?  Those same catalogs are available online.  Cancel the paper version and reduce your clutter.

5 Responses to “Unwanted Catalogs”

  1. Dorene Romero says:
    April 29, 2009 at 3:47 pm

    CatalogChoice.org — a good one! Heck of a nice web site, too, as is yours. Thanks for listing the tip. I signed up.

  2. Nathaniel says:
    May 25, 2009 at 10:30 am

    How do I stop junk mail? I just moved and all of the annoying junk mail has followed me!

  3. Lisa Sarasohn says:
    May 27, 2009 at 1:40 pm

    Depends on the junk mail. Some mailers come from sources that pay the u.s. post office a lot of money for the right to send mail to the occupant of your address; that mail is what helps keep our post office in business. This link at http://www.ecocycle.org/junkmail/index.cfm has several ways to reduce the volume.

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