Comments on: Top Ten Websites for Reducing and Recycling Your Junk Mail http://news.socialyell.com/411/social-responsibility/top-ten-websites-for-reducing-and-recycling-your-junk-mail/ Helping Companies, Consumers and Stakeholders Make Socially Responsible Decisions Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:22:00 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bruce http://news.socialyell.com/411/social-responsibility/top-ten-websites-for-reducing-and-recycling-your-junk-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-239 Bruce Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:43:31 +0000 http://news.socialyell.com/?p=411#comment-239 This is a pet peve of mine... I recently called my wife's prescription by mail company (name not mentioned) to opt-out of their service. One week later I get the same letter I received earlier requesting I use their service or my at drug store pickups (on way home from work) will cost me more money and to please call to sign up or opt-out. I called them again to be sure I was opted out and they verified this and the operator said I "would continue to get these letters anyways as I am their client..." I requested them to stop the mailings as it was not only wasting money but resources for printing, mailing and delivering these letters. "Oh we can't do that - it's automated..." Just how much are we as a society wasting because things are automated and there is no way to turn them off? This is a pet peve of mine… I recently called my wife's prescription by mail company (name not mentioned) to opt-out of their service. One week later I get the same letter I received earlier requesting I use their service or my at drug store pickups (on way home from work) will cost me more money and to please call to sign up or opt-out.

I called them again to be sure I was opted out and they verified this and the operator said I "would continue to get these letters anyways as I am their client…" I requested them to stop the mailings as it was not only wasting money but resources for printing, mailing and delivering these letters. "Oh we can't do that – it's automated…"

Just how much are we as a society wasting because things are automated and there is no way to turn them off?

]]> By: Will http://news.socialyell.com/411/social-responsibility/top-ten-websites-for-reducing-and-recycling-your-junk-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-204 Will Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:01:29 +0000 http://news.socialyell.com/?p=411#comment-204 All of these are worth pursuing if they help reduce your junk mail, but nearly 100,000 people have signed ForestEthics' petition at donotmail.org calling for a national Do Not Mail Registry because, at the end of the day, these tools are not enforceable. Just as Do Not Call need to become enforceable legislation before annoying telemarketers were required to honor your requests, we will utlimately need an enforceable solution to junk mail's excessive waste. Sign the petition at donotmail.org All of these are worth pursuing if they help reduce your junk mail, but nearly 100,000 people have signed ForestEthics' petition at donotmail.org calling for a national Do Not Mail Registry because, at the end of the day, these tools are not enforceable.

Just as Do Not Call need to become enforceable legislation before annoying telemarketers were required to honor your requests, we will utlimately need an enforceable solution to junk mail's excessive waste.

Sign the petition at donotmail.org

]]> By: margotb http://news.socialyell.com/411/social-responsibility/top-ten-websites-for-reducing-and-recycling-your-junk-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-202 margotb Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:14:19 +0000 http://news.socialyell.com/?p=411#comment-202 At <a href="http://www.stopthejunkmail.com" target="_blank">www.stopthejunkmail.com</a> we have members who have done over 400 opt outs for catalogs and other types of direct mail with lots of success. We have been helping consumers opt out of junk mail for nearly 8 years now. To get rid of postal junk mail you have to be thorough and persistent, it doesn't just happen over night. At http://www.stopthejunkmail.com we have members who have done over 400 opt outs for catalogs and other types of direct mail with lots of success. We have been helping consumers opt out of junk mail for nearly 8 years now. To get rid of postal junk mail you have to be thorough and persistent, it doesn't just happen over night.

]]>