If there's no 'freepost' envelope or address on the junk mailing, but there is a standard company address, post it back in an envelope without
return address and without a stamp this way the company will have to pay the postal charge to recieve their own unwanted junk
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 Originally posted by Byrd
You can contact the Direct Marketing Association. On the front page is a "remove my name from mailing lists" button. (note that they want $1.00 to
take you off the list) www.the-dma.org...
More about the DMA and their lists and getting off of them:
www.dmaconsumers.org...
It's funny how I have to pay a dollar to have my name taken off a list I never wanted it on in the first place. It's not about the money, it's
about the principle of the thing.
I'll give this a try Byrd, thanks.
Peace 
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Junk mail wont stop because the government profits from it.
Junk mail will stop the same day your state says "gee, we have surplus this year so we're going to cut the hell out of your taxes to make up for
poor budgeting" rather than "wow a surplus! lets spend more than we need and hike taxes next year"
Junk mail will stop as soon as theres a global warming solution that doesnt involve increased taxes and wealth redistribution.
Junk mail is here as long as somebody profits from it. The odd thing is since its the government profiting we all love it. If it was Exxon we'd
demand heads roll.
Remember when Kramer wanted his mail to stop? It was funny but dead-on true. Mail is a way for them to keep tabs on you. Its a way for them to watch
your consumption habits and your lifestyle choices. Its just another way to be tagged and given the illusion of release like Social Security or the
endless need to register things you own and be lisenced to own things. Itll never stop.
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This is just a little off your subject but I was thinking about wasted paper the other day. My wife and I just refinanced our home. At closing, the
legal contract and all the other paperwork we had to sign totaled 87 large sheets of paper and we had to sign every sheet. Many of the documents were
repetitive junk. I actually felt bad afterwards because it seemed so unnecessary to use that much paper to do a simple refinacing. I realize that
all i's have to be dotted and t's have to be crossed on any legal process but 87 large sheets?!?! The only thing I could think of at the time is
what happened to living in the computer age?
[edit on 8-5-2007 by zerotime]
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Originally posted by citizen smith
Here's a cuunning plan to reduce your junkmail...
If any of your junkmail has a 'freepost' address, take a housebrick and wrap the junkmail round the brick and enclose a letter stating that you do
not want anymore post thankyou very much, wrap up like a normal parcel and put the return freepost address on the front and post.
Should cost the business that sent the offending junk a small fortune in postal expenses if enough people do the same!
Dude that is an awesome idea, i think im going to do that.
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How bout every time junk mail comes to your house. Put a sign that says, there is a sniper on the roof top making sure you dont put junk mail in the
box. If it is email junk mail, just write a program that will send thousands of reply messages to their folder.
Or what you could do is write to Fraud Information Center, the Federal Trade Commission, or for emails such as unsolicited stock "tips," the
Securities and Exchange Commission, and have them investigated every time, just to get them riled up. The govt will probably get tired of it and force
them to shut down due to the complaints.
[edit on 8-5-2007 by THE_PROFESSIONAL]
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