Stop Unwanted Junk Mail!

Do you get junk mail and catalogs you don’t want?  You can stop this mail both at home and at work to decrease your junk mail clutter and save paper in the process!  There are two ways to do this. 

DIY: First, each time you get a catalog, credit card offer, or phone book you don’t want, you can call the sender and ask them to take you off their mailing list.  Many companies will honor this request.  If you have taken the time to call them, you obviously don’t want their correspondence, so no longer sending you items will save them money.  I have used this somewhat labor intensive method successfully in the past.

Catalog Choice: The second way involves signing up with Catalog Choice, a free program through the City of Fort Collins.  This still requires you to do some work – you need to input the companies from whom you want to opt out.  If you continue to get mail from them after 90 days, they will follow up on it.  This seems to be the more efficient choice for stopping junk mail since it takes less time to log in and enter companies than to call each one yourself.  Use the link above to access the website (shown below).