Comments on: 100 Million Green Facts You Didn’t Know About Junk Mail

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:07:21 +0000

I happen to be one of the owners of MyJunkTree and as a new company I search the web to see if we are getting any visibility out there and I post n relevant Blogs.

We launched the company because we were tired of all the junk mail we were receiving and we personally did not want to bounce all over the web to contact all the different companies to stop it all. First and foremost we wanted to let people choose what they wanted to let come to their home knowing that some people really do like some of the coupons and catalogs. So our clients choose what they want stopped.

We also had to provide a service that is different than the other services out there, so here is what we offer:

1. We have a database of over 1300 catalogs that you can choose to stop.
2. We have over a 4000 charities/Non-Profits that you can stop solicitations from.
3. Stop the delivery of the national phone directories.
4. Stop the delivery of the weekly coupons.
5. Stop the general credit card offers as well as the ones from your own major bank.
6. Stop the miscellaneous junk mail from the data brokers.
7. You can register on the National Do Not Call Registry from the website.
8. You can order your no strings attached free annual credit report right from the website.
9. We plant trees with every new membership.

And, yes we are a paid service and yes you can do everything that we do for free, if you want to do all the research and spend the time contacting the companies yourself it can easily be done. We have just done all of the legwork for our clients and feel there is value in the service we provide. So check out MyJunkTree and make difference in your mailbox.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:19:59 +0000

I’m so sick of junk mail, I could scream. During the average week I get maybe, 5 pieces of real mail as I have tried to go paperless with most of my accounts. However, I get over 100 pieces of junk mail a week. Not only are they killing trees for this, it uses more petrol to carry it to my mail box, I use electricity to shread all the pieces with my address on them, and then I have to use petrol taking it all to the recycling center! I’ve even tried requesting companies cease sending me catalogs but they won’t stop. Why can’t they just send me an email to tell me they are having a sale? Kudos to Lowe’s, Sears, and Home Depot who have stopped sending hard copy flyers to me and send emails instead.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:18:39 +0000

Thats Prety bad! I hate junk mail.

By: ady

ady — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:08:46 +0000

Oh my God! I didn’t thought about this. 100 Million Trees are just too much!

By: BoredQuiz

BoredQuiz — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:11:32 +0000

Yeah I really hate receiving phone books as well. I probably used one twice in the last 4 years. What a waste!

By: Ehren Wessel

Ehren Wessel — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:21:41 +0000

http://officeofstrategicinfluence.com/bulkmailer/

Check out the preceding website. Apparently, you can tape those postage-paid return envelopes and tape them to bricks, and mail them back to the company. It costs them about twenty-five bucks per brick. Pretty nifty, eh?

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:33:39 +0000

I work in the web printing industry and produce some junk mail – the majority of our paper comes from europe and is produced from plantation timber which is a renewable source.

A lot of our customers are concerned with the source of the timber for the paper and we now have a program called chain of custody to verify the source of the timber/paper to our clients.

We also use some recycled paper stocks but most of the recycled paper but the quality is poor so it mostly goes into cardboard as far as i am aware.

By: Alan Stucker

Alan Stucker — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:04:45 +0000

I always found it funny that when you bank with an institution they have somewhere on your monthly statement that you should switch to paper billing because it saves x amount of trees a year. But the same institution will send me 20 credit offers a year!

By: Salex

Salex — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:46:29 +0000

Without junk mail, the USPS has significant problems. If we require junk mail to be made from 100% recycled material, the trees are saved and the USPS stats in business. In addition, it would create a strong demand for recycled paper products.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:40:56 +0000

I must get at least three credit card offers per week or more at times. Some weeks the only mail I get is all junk mail.What a waste!