The "She shredded her Junk Mail"

IrishEyes

IrishEyes

Sharon
Location
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.
 
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