On Monday, October 13, 2014 10:17:46 AM UTC-4, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 18:48:14 +1100, Je�us > wrote:
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> >On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:44:00 -0700, "Julie Bove"
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> >>On Sunday, October 12, 2014 9:07:59 PM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
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> >>> I really wish I could cut down on the junk snail mail. Ads for stores
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> >>> where I would never shop and catalogs that will never be opened.
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> >>If those catalogs have a 1-800 number on them you can call and ask for your
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> >>name A N D address to be removed from their mailing list. Junk mail that
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> >>has a postage paid return envelope can be use to make the same request. The
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> >>company sending out the original mail has to pay for that postage paid
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> >>envelope, not you. I've used both methods numerous times and it's amazing
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> >>doing these two things can really cut down on that garbage.
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> >>You seriously do not know how many I receive! I am not about to spend many
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> >>hours and many days searching for a phone number on there and then calling.
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> >>Plus any time I order from one of those places it just generates new
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> >>catalogs. You seem not to know how these things work. I also don't know
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> >>what kind of junk mail would have a postage paid envelope and I'm not going
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> >>to open things to look for one.
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> >Another rejection of a perfectly good solution (which I also used to
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> >do when junk mail was a problem). Has Bove EVER accepted a suggestion
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> Julie is truly a LAZY imbecile... takes very little effort to call
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> those companies, and their phone number is prominently displayed, on
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> nearly every page of their catalogs. And the thing is once they take
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> your name off their list they stop making it available to other
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> marketers... in less than two months junk mail goes down to only a few
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> pieces, those you can't stop like political crap. And if you just
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> toss junk mail in the trash without destroying your name and address
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> it won't be long your ID will be stolen.

Here's a good one. What to do with all those stinkin' address labels you get in the charity solicitations. I won't just throw in the recycling ( ID matter ) and to feed 'em thru my shredder will only gum it up. So, they collect in my desk drawer - must have a thousand by now.

I HAVE put them to use attaching two sheets of paper rather than have staple-buildup, but it's a rare need. Other than that, any ideas?

I sent money to the USO - wow - they are really baaaaad about
re-solicitation.