Junk Mail-Free 

How to eliminate Junk Mail

📬11.6 billion pounds of junk mail is delivered yearly across the USA.  98% of it ends up in our landfills. 
Over 320 million taxpayer dollars are spent annually to dispose of junk mail. 

 

Here is how to eliminate junk mail: You can stop junk mail from invading your home, office, and mailbox. It will save tons of printed paper that ends up in our landfills. How to Unsubscribe from marketing mailing lists.

“Refused. Return to Sender”

🍃 A quick way to send a clear message is to return junk mail unopened to the sender by writing: “Refused. Return to sender” on the envelope.

The post office will return it to the sender!

First-Class Mail: USPS policy dictates that junk mail, typically classified as USPS Marketing Mail (formerly Standard Mail), is returned to the sender if it qualifies as First-Class Mail or includes specific ancillary service endorsements like “Return Service Requested”.

Other Mail: they treated as UBBM (Undeliverable Bulk Business Mail) and disposed of or recycled by USPS, rather than returned.

 

USPS official documentation and postal guidelines support using:

  • “REFUSED” for mail rejected by the named addressee
  • “NOT AT THIS ADDRESS”: for mail returned because the recipient is not at the address

Stop Sale Calls

🍃To stop SALE Calls: National Do Not Call Registry National Do Not Call Registry  and  Register your number here Other mail offers: donation requests, retail promotions, cable, and phone offers bank offers mail addresses to the current resident credit offer: manage pre-screen credit offers. I did it! It works.

  • 🍃 donotcall.gov to reduce your spam phone calls. However, this only stops legal telemarketing. You may still get plenty of illegal calls. There are many phone apps for Android and Apple iOS to screen shady phone calls and block and report them (e.g., Truecaller or Hiya).

Sign Up Online

🍃Sign up for online billing, marketing, and online catalogs. Below is a list of organizations that help you to cut and eliminate junk mail from your door and postal box.

 

 

In addition Here is what to do:

  • 🍃catalogchoice.org: Start reducing your junk mail today for free. Catalog Choice’s mission is to stop junk mail for good. Catalog Choice is a non-profit organization unaffiliated with the mail marketing industry. It is an environmental organization that allows you to cancel a catalog and other types of paper mail delivery. It is free and will help preserve natural resources while reducing junk mail.

 

  • 🍃dmachoice.org  helps to take your name off of prospective lists from catalogs, magazines, credit offers, and others. Their online opt-out service is $6 for 10 years.  It is a very small fee, and it will remove your name from mailing lists for 10 years. Also, you will be able to manage your mail by selecting catalogs, the magazine offers: such as subscription offers, newsletters, periodicals, and other promotional mailings.

 

  • 🍃save.com  operated by Valassis, handles opt-outs for their mailed coupon inserts like SAVE, RetailMeNot (formerly RedPlum), and similar ones.It can take up to six weeks for the mailings to stop as their advertising programs are prepared several weeks in advance.

 

  • 🍃 optoutprescreen.com  to stop Credit Card promotional mailings. You can choose either a five-year removal or permanent removal. It is free.

 

 

  • 🍃 valpak.com to remove your address from the Valpak blue envelope mailing list. It is free.

 

  • 🍃 valassis.com  to be removed from direct marketers Valassis. It is free.

 

 

  • 🍃 If you received mail fraud, you can reach the uspis.gov/

 

📬 This should definitely reduce your junk mail and save tons of paper waste. 

💚Our post box and our environment will thank you!