Drowning in Catalogues. There must be some way to opt out of this.

[Mike 03]

Even if I buy a sister one present from one company on line, at some time three years ago, or sent my niece a toy three years ago on her birthday, I am now receiving their catalogue every month, or even sometimes worse, twice a month. This is killing millions of trees I know, and it is a complete waste. Why do some companies send me a catalogue every week?

At this moment in my life I'm not physically able to contact every single goddamn company and tell them to stop sending catalogues.

Is there anything like the "DO NOT CALL" list that applies to catalogues??

[msongs]

1. is there not usually a check box to opt out from this stuff? visit their websites and look

for an opt out. of course once the flood begins all these people buy and sell each others' customer lists.

then the post office delivers this stuff at lowball rates while first class rates climb ever higher.

Msongs

[globalvillage]

2. Check here

http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs4-junk.htm

I had the same problem and signed up somewhere. Sorry I don't recall the site but it significantly reduced my junk mail.


Might have been here:

https://www.directmail.com/directory/mail_preference/

Good luck.

[jemsan]

3. There are many, many websites you can go to to get rid of

unwanted catalogues and credit card solicitations etc. Here are two of them.



http://www.catalogchoice.org/

greendimes.com/

[pansypoo53219]

6. catalogue choice is working. even gave them new catalogues to add.

only a few desperate ones before Xmas. wish theye was a place to say just send less.

[chimpyisstillsatan]

4. ProQuo seems to work

Proquo.com. 

I have no financial interest in them, but use their site
anyway....  

[Muttocracy]

5. reduce.org from MN state government has good info

http://www.reduce.org/

Not sure when they last updated the site (it looks like it did years ago) but there's a bunch of links and #s to call about junk mail.

[madokie]

7. If you write refused and or return to sender on the catalog and put it in the out box

The post office is bound by law to return the package to the sender with the sender responsible for the postage back to them. The same postage that you or I would have to pay if we were to mail that same catalog/package ourselves. Not the lower rate the companies may agree to pay for the delivery to you to begin with. I was told by our postmaster to do that many years ago and it works. If it is something that the sender is asking you money for and you didn't order it to begin with you are in your rights to keep that product as if it was a gift, I've done that too. If it is something you don't want to accept just write refused and put it back in the box for the mailman to return it and it will get the attention of the senders so they will remove you from their mailing list. When you call your postmaster to confirm this don't let whoever answers the phone to try to let you talk to someone else besides the postmaster him/herself either as that person may not know what they are talking about where as the postmaster will.

[yy4me]

8. Do they get away with doing this because the label says:

"Or current resident"?

Can we really send them back? I get a few that I don't want, never would buy from and do not want the bother to call and wait hours on "hold". I just throw them in the recycle bin. I'd save everyone money if I really could send them back marked refused.

[madokie]

9. Yes you can and no that is not an out for them

Try it and see for yourself. After you refuse one then see if you get another from them. Its happened a time or two but never has it been that I received a second one from that point going forward. We get almost no trash mail since that day I talked to our postmaster concerning this a good 15 or so years ago. From time to time I still have to use this, refused, return to sender, option and like I said its always with the results I'm saying. No one likes to throw money away which they see quickly that they are doing by sending you more and more trash mail so your name and addy will be deleted from their mailing list. Try it, you'll like the results, that I promise.

I'm an old prior navy postal clerk myself. So many many years ago it was.

Edit: replaced a not with a no