Junk Your Junk Mail

You see it everyday, I know I do. Junk mail. It comes from everywhere, and you never asked for it. I confronted my postal carrier today, and she seemed upset that I would want to stop all the supermarket circulars and other junk. "Why?" I asked. She mentioned how much money the USPS makes from all this direct mail advertising, and how it would hurt the post office. I told her to charge more for stamps. She changed her tone, and then told me (reluctantly) to check out a website that will stop your junk mail.

The site she mentioned is called www.greendimes.com. The site was started by a dot com entrepreneur, who suffered the same frustrations with junk mail. The service costs $20 per year, and they will plant 5 trees for every member who joins.

There are other similar services, such as www.41pounds.org, which is named for the average amount of junk mail received by persons each year. The cost is $41 for 5 years ($8.20/year), and they will donate 1/3 of the fees to environmental causes.

Both services have been reviewed by major news sources, so please have a look a both and pick one that you feel happy about. In either case, they guarantee to cut your junk mail delivery by 90% in less than 16 weeks.