Does any one else get bombarded with junk mail from environmental organizations? It makes me crazy. I've started to contact them asking them to stop, but I don't know how much good that will do. Unfortunately, you make a donation to one and then presto, you are inundated with loads of mail from all sorts of organizations. It's become a huge turn off for me lately. I don't want to donate to them because I don't want their junk mail. Do any of these organizations see the irony of their ways?? Besides the fact that it's incredibly wasteful, I live in an area where this type of paper is not recyclable.
Anyone have any suggestions or success getting off these mailing lists. I know there are services you can pay for to get off junk mail lists, but I can't exactly pay for that right now.
I'm a bit late in reading this, but I have an ongoing personal campaign to rid my mailbox of catalogs and junk mail. It's the law that when you phone them, they MUST take you off their lists (and do it cheerfully I might add). I stack them up as they come in (and I gag at the waste), then about once a month, I tear off the page with their phone number on it (the order phone number works also), sit down at the phone and call each of them. I always write the date on the single piece of catalog and keep it to make sure they really do take me off. Of course, I always get the line "we've already arranged for our next catalog, so you'll get at lease one more". And I usually do. You are correct, Stacy, that once you order from them, the catalog web starts again (they send you, then they sell your name to another company, who sells your name, etc. etc.). I'll bet if you call them once your order arrives and get off the list immediately, it would cut it down a bit.
I really do hate catalogs that are arriving as the result of an internet purchase. I even call Habitat, NDRC, etc. and point out the error of their ways.
