How to stop or reduce mailed catalogs

Duster

Duster

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There an online place where you can request that companies curtail their catalog mailings to your home. Go to:
Catalog Choice
Start an account. Yes, you'll need a password.
Gather the catalogs you want to stop or reduce.
Use the search and put the catalog name in.
You may need your email address associated with the catalog account on some of them.
Follow the instructions and fill in the blanks.

This really works. It also reduces catalogs that parent companies send that you have no interest in.
Catalog Choice keeps a log of your cancellations and the date. I cancelled some in 2015 and they stopped for a few years, but now I'm getting catalogs from those same companies, so I did another cancellation request. If you order online you may get duplicate mailings from the same companies. Some have a feature to stop the additional catalogs.
There is no cost involved to use this service, but they do accept voluntary donations.
Maybe we can save some trees and reduce landfill waste.
 

The way I stop getting catalogues, if I ordered an item,then get a notice in the mail saying 'its no longer available' really annoys me.I call the customer service# tell the agent how po'd I am, to delete my name from mailing list,it works.
 
I rarely get catalogs. When I do I just remove my name/address & toss into recycle pile.

Phone books/yellow pages left at front stoop also get tossed.
 
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There is a positive "side effect" to these catalogs, and other junk mail. The companies who produce this stuff have to pay the US Post Office to deliver it. This helps keep the cost of a postage stamp from going sky high....as many people are using traditional mail less and less. If it weren't for this junk mail, it would probably cost a dollar, or more, to send someone a birthday card.
 
I don't get enough catalogs to bother with it, but I frequently get advertising crap for funerals & Long-Term Health Insurance, describing the various illnesses that could wipe me out financially. Whenever I get those, I use their postage-paid envelope & send it back to them, stuffed with advertising literature - so it's heavier to increase their return-postage cost. I also include a little note:
"Hi, folks:
Thank you for sending me the information about long-term care insurance. Your genuine concern for my health & my finances has touched me deeply. In this fast-paced, indifferent world, it is refreshing to see people who really care about others.
To show my sincere appreciation, I have enclosed some valuable coupons I save for kind, thoughtful, caring, wonderful people like you. Since I believe that kindness should always be rewarded, I will continue to bestow such gifts upon you each time you mail me information.
And thanks for paying the return postage."
 
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I don't get many catalogs these days and the ones I wish I would get I don't, such as the seed catalogs. I have gone online and requested a few that I really like but I miss going out to the mail box and being surprised. Made me think planting season is on its way.
 
I do what win 231 does with the postage paid offers, remove all parts with my name, stick the rest back in the envelope & mail it.
 
I do not get many catalogs any more. As for the phone books...check yours for a website address. You can go there and take your name off the delivery list. I have not gotten any in years
 

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