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Going Paperless: No Junk Mail

2 June, 2008 (13:23) | Greening Your Office, Junk Mail

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It’s Not Hard to go Paperless

There seems to be a resentment or fear of going paperless. But you are going to have to do it, per government mandates, so why not start small? Start with getting rid of your junk mail and go forward from that point. The easiest thing to do is assign a person to specific paperless tasks. As an example, 1 person could be in charge of junk mail, another in charge of organizing and training for recall (by email), another in charge of inventory, another in charge of patient records and most importantly bills, (another blog) This blog is only about Junk Mail one of the banes of our existence, but can be eradicated with a little time and effort. 

Did you Know?

  • 100 Million Trees are cut down each year for Junk Mail 
  • Americans recieve more than 4 Tons of Junk Mail per year 
  • 44% of Junk Mail goes into land fills unopened. 
  • 28 Billion Gallons of Water wasted 
  • $320 Million of Local Tax dollars spent disposing of Junk Mail 

What you Can Do 

  1. Take the time to write to each of the companies listed below and request to be taken off their mailing list. 
  2. Take the time to sign up with one or more of the below companies and request to be removed. 
  3. Take the time to write to each of your ‘clubs, frequent flyers credit cards, and request to be removed from their list. 
  4. Take the time to write a letter to each vendor and request to be removed. 
  5. Return to Sender unwanted junk mail (RETURN TO SENDER, REMOVE FROM LIST)

Junkbusters: provides links and information on getting rid of junk mail as well as faxes and telemarketing 

Do Not Mail :You can sign a petition here to end junk mail. Similiar to Do Not Call 

EcoFuture: Great site, with lots of resources., includes a ‘Form letter; to send to companies. 

Direct Mail : There is a section to sign up to take your name off the lists 

Catalogue Choice . This website will allow you to sign up and select what catalogues to recieve or not recieve, 

41 lbs: Provides goo source of who to call and write. 

Green Dimes : Free Service to get rid of junk mail 

Stop the Junk Mail : Not Free, but they claim they can get rid of 90% of junk mail  

Here’s a Great Video on how to get rid of Credit Card Offers 

Heres A Video on Getting Revenge (very Funny!) 

Addresses to write to: 

Advo Incorp 
Delivery Services
1001 W. Walnut Street 
Compton, CA 90220-5191 

(310)-637-0438 

Direct Marketing Association 
Attn: Customer Service Opt Out
1120 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036-6700 

Experian Consumer Sevices 
List Maintenance 
901 West Bond 
Lincoln, NE 68521 

infoUSA, Inc.
5711 S. 86th Circle
Omaha, NE 68127-0347 

Acxiom Corporation 
Opt-Outs 
P.O. Box 2000 
Conway, AR 72033-2000 

Trans Union LLC 
Name Removal Option 
P.O. Box 97328 
Jackson, MS 39288-7328 

LEXIS-NEXIS 
9393 Springboro Pike 
P.O. Box 933 
Dayton, OH 45401 

National Demographics & Lifestyles (generates lists from product warranty cards) 
Customer Service Department 
1621 18th Street, #300 
Denver, CO 80202 
(800) 525-3533


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Comments

Comment from Sanjiv
Time June 4, 2008 at 8:08 pm

GreenDimes here,

Thanks for spreading the word. Everytime I see the impact stats it blows me away.

Comment from jpra
Time June 9, 2008 at 5:35 pm

A group of anti-junk mail experts sponsored videographers to produce humorous videos to stop junk mail. Watch the videos at http://www.proquo.com/videocontest !

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