I'm tired of receiving 10 catalogs a day. I just discovered the solution to end it once and for all:

[BigBearJohn]

Go to www.catalogchoice.org

They work with catalog distributors to end the waste
of sending you thousands of catalogs you never even look at.

[Speck Tater]

1. Move and don't leave a forwarding address? NT

[LynneSin]

2. I did that - they find you

* sigh *

[Ian David]

3. They always find you. Even Osama bin Laden gets The Brookstone's Catalog. n/t

[4lbs]

13. Then the U.S. military should send Bin Laden a Turbans-R-Us catalog with a GPS device in it.

A Predator drone with missile can be flying overhead with a GPS receiver/tracker to fire when Bin Laden gets it.

Mission Accomplished.

[Midlodemocrat]

4. I LOVE getting catalogs!!! I do almost all my shopping online.

[femmocrat]

7. Same here!

I pitch them all after Christmas, but I enjoy leafing through them.

[ColbertWatcher]

14. B-b-but, I don't! I'm going to have my catalogs canceled and make them cancel yours too!

:P

[ContinentalOp]

22. Um... if you do all of your shopping online, why the hell do you need the catalogs?

Save some trees please!

[HeresyLives]

5. Oooh thank you very much!

I sure hope this works for me. I'm drowning in them. Sometimes 5 copies of the same catalog too!

This has got to be a big waste for the companies, and it's driving me crazy!

[SoCalNative]

6. Or you could just ask your mailman to do what Mailman Steve did

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3614161

[csziggy]

8. I've been calling the companies and asking them to take me off their mailing lists

I only do online ordering now and do not want to get the piles of magazines anymore. So I let the companies know this. If their online "membership" allows me, I put that in my preferences and for the companies I do want to get news of specials from I let them send me email notices. The very few that have brick & mortar stores here, I can print their coupons and take them to the store if I feel like it.

But we have been on a crusade for the last ten years to reduce the amount of paper coming in. We haul our own garbage to the dump and our local solid waste facility does not recycle magazines and catalogs printed on glossy paper so that just gets added to the landfill. I am also gradually switching over to electronic statements for most of my accounts - combined with electronic payments, that makes it a lot easier to deal with the mail.

Of course, when my email is hosed, I am screwed.

[pacalo]

9. Thanks, BigBear!

The amount of garbage I get is ridiculous.

[Muttocracy]

10. More tips on junk mail reducation at reduce.org

http://www.reduce.org/

from Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance.

[magellan]

11. Some stores will only take the cease order direct from you

We tried to stop the onslaught of catalogs through catalogchoice last year. It worked for about half of them. The rest ignored it. I had to call those myself to be removed from their catalog lists.

[NV Whino]

12. Thanks

I just spent an hour uncataloging myself. I hope.

[lib2DaBone]

15. Do you have any idea what it costs to produce and mail a catalog?

... you must have bought from a catalog at some time in the past.. or they wouldn't have your address.

Direct Marketers spend MILLIONS trying to get people to buy from their catalogs. (The least you can do is look at the pictures)

[BigBearJohn]

17. If what you say is true, then why are catalog distributors working WITH this website?

just askin..

[BigBearJohn]

19. 1 more thought: I receive catalogs from people I NEVER EVER ordered from.

I am a single man, yet I receive catalogs for women's garments.
I have never ever ordered from a women's catalog (no jokes please).

I receive a whole slew of catalogs on subjects that I have ever never dealth with.
I receive fishing catalogs (I don't fish). I receive knitting catalogs (I don't knit).
I receive farming catalogs (I don't farm).

I don't have time to look through 50 catalogs a week. Maybe you do, but I don't.

[BigBearJohn]

20. When I moved from California to Washington I started receiving a MOUNTAIN of new catalogs

Catalogs saying "Welcome to your new home" trying to sell
me everything under the sun.

Funny thing is, I RARELY If EVER order from paper catalogs.
ALL my ordering (and browsing) is done ONLINE. Almost 95%
of all my purchases are online. I love the ease of it.

If I never ever received another paper catalog, I would be thrilled.

The only problem is, a lot of the firms I order from online
must be selling my information to other firms. Otherwise,
why would I be receiving a myriad of catalogs on subjects I have
absolutely NO interest in WHATSOEVER????

[Judi Lynn]

16. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've already knocked off 53 of these unsolicited pests after seeing

your post around an hour ago.

Absolutely wonderful. This is such a useful, necessary thing I was able to accomplish, have more to go later this evening.

You've provided DU'ers with an outstanding way to cut right through tons of junk mail with this thread.

:toast: :bounce: :beer: :thumbsup: :hi: :loveya: :hug: :yourock: :woohoo: :party: :applause: :kick:

[BigBearJohn]

18. I saw it on the news today and figured this is one way we can save trees and energy.

The program said the amount of energy it takes to produce these catalogs
could pay for the electricity for an average city for a year.

And we're not even talking about how many oxygen providing trees could
be spared.

I am not saying we have to eliminate ALL catalogs. However, I know
for a fact that I am receiving catalogs that I NEVER EVER asked for or
want. This provides an economical way to end it once and for all.

[Judi Lynn]

21. Better believe it. By the time you start getting unsolicited catalogs in several

spellings of your name, you know you've got to do something about it!

It wears you down too much seeing this stuff filling up your mailbox, knowing it's simply being wasted, and, as you indicated, has appeared in your mailbox without your permission as part of a mailing list one merchant sold another. Trees are being felled, not to provide shelter for human beings, but to be used as fishing expeditions, hoping to snag a few dollars from someone by chance.

Shabby abuse of the world's resources.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

23. I just go to the retailer's website and request to be taken off the mailing list

If I have purchased from them in the past I ask them to put me on their e-mail list. Then I click through on any e-mails they send, even if I have no intention to buy, just to reinforce that this is the right way to get my attention.

Every retailer has complied but two, and I won't do business with them any more.

[a kennedy]

24. Thank you so much for this site......

saw it on the news last night, but wasn't fast enough to catch the website mentioned, and this is it. Thanks again. :pals:

[BigBearJohn]

25. glad to help