What are your thoughts on bulk of unwanted junk mail cluttering our mailbox each day?

[Icee Racer]

I know this topic has been created before about the flood of holioday catalogs. But now, this is about unwanted junk mail deliver by the mail carrier from the post office. But most of us think of unwanted junk mail as an afterthought.

However junk mail is indeed an irritating form of advertisement. Everyday, we are bombarded with bulks of unwanted junk mail that clutter our mailbox from the post office. Yet, most of us complain about seeing annoying commercials that come on our television or radio everyday, not the mail we receive from the mail carrier.

The mail we receive, beside bills, bank statements, and other important items, are all unwanted junk mail. All of them end up in the garbage can without taking a first look at them. However, there are people who do recycle unwanted mail order catalogs.

Unwanted junk mail such as credit card solicitation offers, political mail that comes every election season, mail order catalogs, surveys, sweepstakes, local newspaper inserts (food, department, and drug store), coupons, magazine subscriptions, and local business flyers.

Stopping unwanted junk mail will protect the environment and declutter our mailbox. No need to spend so much time to shed them in order to protect our personal information from identity and credit card fraud.

[mammaduke]

I use all those unwanted cataloges to start my fire in my grill durning the summer. I line the bottom of the grill with the screaded pages to lite after I put the charcoal on top.Works great.

[Annette1990]

I dislike junk mail as well. It's a waste of time, money and trees! If I want a certain catalog I request it. If different businesses send me what I haven't asked for I call their toll free number and ask to be removed from their mailing list. And as for flyers and credit card approval sign ups they should have a number to call like they do for telemarketers calling your home the do not call list (donotcall.gov)!!!!

[Twinkle]

I don't mind so much the catalogs. But I do mind the flyers and You Have Been Approved credit card mail. I cut them up and throw them in the garbage never reading. It is a waste and wonder why so much money is spent on this. I hate junk mail, never read, and into the trash can it all goes.

[SW1Dennis]

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You know when you get a pre approved credit card applications in the mail and you get the pre-paid envelope to send it back in.........what I like to do is fill that envelope with worthless items and send it back.

Some of the things I have sent back are out dated coupons, and old used muffin wrapper, their own privacy policy and so forth.

Some day, I am going to get brave and tape a brick to the envelope and send that to them.

[Maureen]

We have a system here that when anyone comes to register a death, one of the things they leave with is a form to complete and send off to the Bereavement Register. This is a firm/business/nice person (not sure which) who contact the powers that be and gets junk mail stopped for the deceased person. It was instigated by a man in England who was sick of getting things for his late wife 7 years after she'd passed on. It really does work too, as I found out when my mum died. Everyday, I told people about this scheme but never really knew if it was right or not. It was.

To date, over 3 BILLION pieces of junk mail has been stopped. It just seems to be an extreme measure to go to, to get unwanted mail stopped!!!

[WhiteFloridaChristmas]

I think it's a horrible waste of paper and should be stopped. Also, all the organizations wanting money for their charities. If they'd stop wasting all that money on postage, they'd have a lot more money for the charities.

[Ms_Speedy_Elf]

I too HATE junk mail. My b/f entered the Publishers Clearing House sweepstake's and one other that I don't recall the name and now we got stuff from allllllllll sort's of place's saying that he has a chance to win million's (roll eyes) .And in the letter it asks the person to send money in order to get money.This crap comes from all over the world .Seriously !!!!There is one place in Kansas that sends him at least 5 or 6 letter's in one day .

If anyone has any suggestion on how to get this crap to stop please tell me .

BTW...he never sends money ,yet we still continue to get it.

[Santa's Helper]

People who work at bulk mail facilities don't think of this mail as "junk" mail, they think of it as job security! It's annoying but, you could opt out of credit card offers, call the toll free #'s to request that they remove you from their mailing list and if your post office is nice they will not deliver the paper ads to you if you don't want them. The post office I worked at had a few people who didn't want the ads so they put a mark by their mail slot and when the ads came we didn't give them any. If it wasn't for the bulk mail there wouldn't be mail delivery because there really isn't that much mail that gets sent anymore because of the internet. Except during our Christmas card exchange! During that time there's lots of good mail to be delivered. If I could put a stop to one article of mail it would be Cabela's catalogs. What could possibly change in their catalog that they would need to send out 3 in a matter of a few months? I hated delivering those things and they are one of the reason's that drove me to quit. It wasn't the only reason but, that's a story for another day...

[joyful]

I would like my mailbox to have a paper shredded attachment with a waste can, so then I could dispose of it there instead of dragging it into the house and it ends of in my trash can inside. Sometimes in the summer time I don't even bring it into the house, I just walk over to our fire pit and put it under a log so when we have a fire it gets burned.

But the volume of junk mail has not been as high for me as it was in the past.