The "She shredded her Junk Mail"

IrishEyes

IrishEyes

Sharon
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Midwest
I sat down and shredded my junk mail, just the ones with forms to fill out and some
older paid bills. The volume of that type of mail had lessened. This is my one
truly chore I procrastinate on. (bad me, cause I hate it).
I think they have trackers on that stuff, I really do!
Yesterday evening my mailbox had 12 pieces of junk mail.
I swear I think they send messages out saying "She's clean - fill her up"
 
@OldFeller
You are too wise OldFeller, and such a hope crusher 😩 email spam doesn't really tie me to a real shredder like paper
junk mail does. Plus you don't have to open it, search out the parts with you info on it, pile it into 1.safe to toss 2. shred this bugger piles.
You actually have to handle the stuff.
 
Most of mine comes from 2 organizations I won't name specifically, but many will know who I mean: the retirement club and the auto club (road service). Some of these are thick envelopes with life insurance applications completely filled in. All that has to be shredded. Then I have to be careful when "ID cards" are atttached with globs of glue that will mess up the shredder. I used to toss all junk mail into a box and shred it when I found time, but that was such a montous chore that now I do it as soon as I receive it.
 
I receive mail daily but only three or four pieces a month are of any importance, the rest is junk mail. Very frustrating. I have a shredder in my garage so any mail that has my name on it gets shredded.

I wish I could find a way to stop all junk mail, I don't recall ever in my life that junk mail influenced me to use a service or purchase a product. It's all wasted on me.
 
IrishEyes said:
@OldFeller
You are too wise OldFeller, and such a hope crusher 😩 email spam doesn't really tie me to a real shredder like paper
junk mail does. Plus you don't have to open it, search out the parts with you info on it, pile it into 1.safe to toss 2. shred this bugger piles.
You actually have to handle the stuff.
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I wasn't paying close enough attention. I saw "Junk Mail" and I immediately thought of email.

Now I undertsand what you were saying. I not only have junk mail but also old bills that I lazily just threw into plastic bags everywhere in the house.

I am glad that the amount of physical junk mail coming into my house is significantly reduced.

I refuse to buy yet another shredder after having had 3 of them get so jammed they don't work anymore.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
Most of mine comes from 2 organizations I won't name specifically, but many will know who I mean: the retirement club and the auto club (road service). Some of these are thick envelopes with life insurance applications completely filled in. All that has to be shredded. Then I have to be careful when "ID cards" are atttached with globs of glue that will mess up the shredder. I used to toss all junk mail into a box and shred it when I found time, but that was such a montous chore that now I do it as soon as I receive it.
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And those papers you mention seem to be getting thicker and thicker like they are aiming at destroying your shredder. Yes, those cards.
I cut them up in teeny pieces. I keep telling myself to do it as they come in but I fail every time. My current failure goal :rolleyes:
 
I don’t get much mail of any kind and very little spam, not sure why.

I don’t bother shredding things but I do tear up and ‘bury’ anything with my sensitive information in the messy garbage.

Most of it is prescription labels, Medicare advantage statements, etc…

My banking and investment information is turned off and I go to their websites when I need to view or download a statement, tax form, etc…
 
I don't get as much junk mail as I once did, for whatever reasons, I'm not sure why.
Just glad the quantity has greatly diminished over time.

There is one company that was bugging me though ... I used to be a customer of Spectrum.
Since switching to another Internet provider a couple of years ago, Spectrum has been mailing me much more often than they ever did.

I'd grown tried of the Spectrum junk mail and google searched for a way to opt out of Spectrum mailings.
Found Spectrum Privacy Preferences and opted out of their contacting me.
You don't have to be a current or former customer to opt out either.
I only updated the preferences yesterday, so will see how it goes. Couldn't be any worse LoL.

Anyway, if there were other specific companies getting on my last nerve with junk mail, I'd search for a way to stop the aggravation.
Progressive Insurance might be next. I've never been a customer but get their junk mail every now and then.
They just aren't on my last nerve ... yet.
 
I used to have bags of junk mail for the shredder.
One day this winter I shredded all of it. Now about once a week I do it to keep up because I ger a lot sometimes.
I do not put credit cards, anything with glue on it or envelopes with plastic on it in my shredder. I cut that up.
I only shred 3 pages at a time. My shredders seem to last longer that way.

Sometimes when you ask to be removed from their mailing lists, they comply. Sometimes you are just verifyimg your address and that someone lives there.

I do not believe that postal workers should have to deliver that crap, especially those newspaper ones.
I talk to my postal worker a bit, they do not like to deliver it either.

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I tear out the address label with our information, shred that, and throw the rest in the recycling bin.

I may start mailing back prepaid envelopes either empty or with confetti inside. Of course, they'll track me with my DNA to find me. Foil hat won't work.🤪
 
I get a lot of cruise catalogs since I've gone/going on a couple cruises. But this thread encouraged me to ask AI how to get off and it directed me to catalogchoice.org. So I made an account and put a couple companies in to have the catalogs stopped, I hope it works. Each time I added a catalog, the site asks for a donation (not required, but I went ahead a donated a tiny amount once).

My pet peeve is credit cards that send blank checks to borrow against my credit card. Really annoying since I don't have a shredder anymore, so far I rip them up and put pieces into different trash cans.
 
That Lady in PA said:
If you mean AARP and AAA... I got off their solicitation (mostly third party) lists also. I never get mail as you mentioned.
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Yes, those are the ones. I'll ask them to take me off. Thanks - I didn't know they would comply.

Edited to add:
Half the time, or more, I no longer receive SF notifications (on my bell symbol in the blue bar) when someone quotes my posts. I didn't get one, so just now found what you wrote.
 
IrishEyes said:
I sat down and shredded my junk mail, just the ones with forms to fill out and some
older paid bills. The volume of that type of mail had lessened. This is my one
truly chore I procrastinate on. (bad me, cause I hate it).
I think they have trackers on that stuff, I really do!
Yesterday evening my mailbox had 12 pieces of junk mail.
I swear I think they send messages out saying "She's clean - fill her up"
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Years and years and years ago, I knew a young man,
about the same age as me, when he got junk mail
with a return free post label attached, he used to
wrap up a brick in brown paper and send to the
company that sent the junk mail to him.

For a while before the internet, I noticed that there
were very few with return labels, I often wondered
if it was because of him that they stopped.

Mike.
 
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