Top Ten Websites for Reducing and Recycling Your Junk Mail

Recommended by consumers like you who are sick of getting junk mail!

1. Get rid of paper catalogs at www.catalogchoice.org

2. Makeover your mailbox with www.dmachoice.org or www.the-dma.org or https://www.dmachoice.org/dma/member/regist.action

3. Check out www.optoutprescreen.com to eliminate pesky credit card and insurance offers

4.  Look at http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/protect.shtm for a “helpful site to learn about opting out of mailing lists, which you can sort of do in bulk,” Natalie Stemp of Calliope Boutique says.

5. https://mymailstopper.tonic.com is a service you can pay for that helps eliminate some of the biggest junk mailers in the country.

6. www.greendimes.org: in case you have ever used this service, just know that it has now changed its name to mymailstopper.tonic.com!

7.www.obviously.com/junkmail is a great comprehensive guide for different ways to deal with specific types of junk mail.

8. Use the Abacus reporting program to opt out of having your name sold to this big catalog publisher: http://www.epsilon.com/Privacy-Policy/Epsilon-Consumer-Opt-out-Information/p152-l2

9. Anyone who wants to get off the blue Val-Pak regional coupons list can do so at www.coxtarget.com/mailsuppression/s/DisplayMailSuppressionForm

10. http://www.simplifiedlivingsolutions.com/organizing-tips/reduce-your-junk-mail “It takes 20-40 minutes and $1-$2 to stop junk mail,” says Sue Anderson of Simplified Living Solutions.

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Ashley Strickland is a senior majoring in journalism at the University of Georgia.  She would love to find a way to get rid of all this junk mail that shows up at home!