Save me from Junk mail
Spent Sunday afternoon cleaning the junk mail that we have received since a month. I am so freaking sick of it. I want to STOP receiving credit card offers, coupons, free magazines, charity request emails, insurance quotes, etc…. Cant these companies send me stuff online so I can delegate filtering the spam to Google. I hate wasting time and energy in doing useless s%$#% like this.
To give you an idea about the amount of junk that I received, I am including an image from Sunday afternoon. What gets difficult is out of the 100 junk mails there is one important letter in it. The challenge is to avoid tearing it off. For example while going through the treasure hunt session today afternoon I discovered a check of 490 dollars from my escrow company!!! I was about to tear it off because it came from Wells Fargo and I get a LOT of JUNK from Wells Fargo. I dont know how many such checks I have unknowingly trashed.
If you know of an agency, a number or any other way to stop receiving such junk please please I BEG you to tell me. Alright I think I should chill out a bit now. Time to read “The Anger Management joke” 
Update:
Thanks for all the comments. Readers please read the comments for some very helpful tips.
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May 28th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Write a letter on each one and send it back to its sender, its ALOT longer but I garuntee half will stop, and if you keep doing it, getting angrier and angrier in the messages, threatening to sue at one point, trust me they will stop, we no longer get any
May 29th, 2008 at 5:37 am
Hi Dividend Pirate,
I was checking your site because I’ll be giving you a huge shout out for changing my whole outlook with the optimal wealth article you linked to. Thanks much!
I am the anti-junk mail guru. I’m on them constantly. As soon as something shows up I automatically call them and cancel. Takes effort, but I don’t have to see it again next month. I even accidentally canceled my neighbor’s junk mail once!
I just found a great resource that you might want to check out. Go to dmachoice.org/mps to remove your name from mailing lists of their members, the direct marketing association is responsible for a great deal of you junk mail, so it should help.
Your picture makes me laugh, as our cats love nothing more than to roll around in our junk mail piles like that!
Have a great day!
Miel
May 29th, 2008 at 5:48 am
Oh, this one saves you from the credit card offers!
https://www.optoutprescreen.com/
Too bad I can’t access it from Vietnam, will have to have James do it for us!
Yahoo!
Miel
May 29th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Learned this one from Andy Rooney:
All those pre-paid “business reply” envelopes you get? Save those. Take the envelope that IT came in, all the contents, and shove them into the prepaid envelope, then mail it back.
“What about the junk mail with no return envelope?”
I’m glad you asked! Save them and shove them into one that does have a pre-paid!
“But, I have too much junk-mail! It won’t fit in the envelopes.”
Never fear, grab the duct tape! As long as that sucker is stuffed and sealed, we’re golden.
Now drop it in the mail!
3 things happen here:
1) Self gratification. You cost the company money. Pre-Paid isn’t really pre-paid. They agree to pay whatever postage is required to ship the envelope. If the thing was busting at the seems, you probably tripled the postage.
2) You contribute to the working class, both the postman and the poor sap in the mailroom whose job it is to weed through the envelopes.
3) Most corporate mail rooms recycle, so more likely than not everything you shoved in that envelope will be recycled.
Please note that it is illegal to mail any sort of biological matter, threats and things of that nature.
Enjoy. It still makes me smile every time I do it. Especially if I have to break out the tape…
May 29th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Yes, I’ve used that trick as well. I did it for quite a while before I moved out of the states. Very gratifying!
Miel
May 29th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Thanks James, Miel and J for your suggestions. I will try these tricks out. Stuffing the junk mail and sending it back is the first thing that I will do.
March 11th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Don’t you hate spam to?
March 14th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
I wanted to comment and thank the author, good stuff