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I was looking for this website again for junk mail. It looked so sketchy the first time, but I’m gonna bite the bullet and see if this saves me time over the ne

I was looking for this website again for junk mail. It looked so sketchy the first time, but I’m gonna bite the bullet and see if this saves me time over the next ten years from having to throw away junk mail. $2 is worth the experiment.

jrockway 4y ago
I did this many years ago. 99.9% of my mail is still junk, just junk where I have some sort of weaselly pre-existing relationship with the company sending mail. ("You donated money to us! Can we have some more!? We spent it all on this marketing campaign and now it's gone!")
- rinze 4y ago
  This used to happen to me (in Montreal, so perhaps not the same as your experience) with SPCA. I emailed them and told them very politely that I donate on my own schedule, that I appreciate the work they do, and to please stop wasting their (my) money asking me for more donations. They replied thanking me for the e-mail and saying that they had removed me from their mailing list.
- dehrmann 4y ago
  This is why I stopped donating to KQED.
- knodi123 4y ago
  Any online order or phone order is an automatic opt-in to their catalog. I used to let my wife handle her own mail and I handled mine, but it got so out of control that I saved all her garbage for 1 month and showed it to her, and now I'm allowed to opt her out of everything. Took a few months but we finally got it down to the bare minimum. It's nice. If I miss a day or two of checking my mailbox, it doesn't overflow!
- thenerdhead 4y ago
  Do you still get the traditional junk mail though? I heard this trick specifically from a postman at USPS and decided to act again given I found the link again.
  - jrockway 4y ago
    Every time I check my mail (which is about once a week), I have about of pound of paper to recycle. These are all things like catalogs from places I've ordered, charities I've donated to, "you used your security key to log into Vanguard!", and things like this. It's all junk to me. I shop online, so don't need a paper catalog. I'm well aware of the charities I donate to and have a recurring donation setup. I was there when I logged in with my security key. But yeah, pre-approved credit card offers are gone, which is nice.
assbuttbuttass 4y ago
I just signed up as well. Curious whether it will make any difference.

jrockway 4y ago

I did this many years ago. 99.9% of my mail is still junk, just junk where I have some sort of weaselly pre-existing relationship with the company sending mail. ("You donated money to us! Can we have some more!? We spent it all on this marketing campaign and now it's gone!")

rinze 4y ago
This used to happen to me (in Montreal, so perhaps not the same as your experience) with SPCA. I emailed them and told them very politely that I donate on my own schedule, that I appreciate the work they do, and to please stop wasting their (my) money asking me for more donations. They replied thanking me for the e-mail and saying that they had removed me from their mailing list.
dehrmann 4y ago
This is why I stopped donating to KQED.
knodi123 4y ago
Any online order or phone order is an automatic opt-in to their catalog. I used to let my wife handle her own mail and I handled mine, but it got so out of control that I saved all her garbage for 1 month and showed it to her, and now I'm allowed to opt her out of everything. Took a few months but we finally got it down to the bare minimum. It's nice. If I miss a day or two of checking my mailbox, it doesn't overflow!
thenerdhead 4y ago
Do you still get the traditional junk mail though? I heard this trick specifically from a postman at USPS and decided to act again given I found the link again.
- jrockway 4y ago
  Every time I check my mail (which is about once a week), I have about of pound of paper to recycle. These are all things like catalogs from places I've ordered, charities I've donated to, "you used your security key to log into Vanguard!", and things like this. It's all junk to me. I shop online, so don't need a paper catalog. I'm well aware of the charities I donate to and have a recurring donation setup. I was there when I logged in with my security key. But yeah, pre-approved credit card offers are gone, which is nice.

assbuttbuttass 4y ago

I just signed up as well. Curious whether it will make any difference.