scooterbug44
11-07-2007, 02:53 PM
There are 150 million people/phone numbers registered with the FTC for their "do not call" list and they have fined violators $16 million since the list was started in 2003.
How about a similar list to prevent my mailbox from filling up w/ unsolicited credit card offers, charity requests, catalogs, and anything addressed to "occupant" or "our neighbor at"?
You can have your name removed from a catalog mailing list, but as soon as one catalog gets stopped, another begins (apparently my late 20s self buying a baby shower gift online demonstrated that I was the target demographic for Pottery Barn Teen and Victoria's REAL Secret is that no matter when I check my mail, there will be a catalog from them).
I receive multiple credit card offers each week - sometimes with humorous results like one from Delta's frequent flier program offering me 32,500 miles to get their card, while the next envelope is a non FF piece of mail offering me 35,000 - but all with a high risk for identity theft and fraud.
March of Dimes has now spent my total donation $ amount many times over by sending me address labels, donation requests, and dimes and has removed itself from my list of charities by annoying me and killing trees. Unicef, Doctors w/o Borders, and Relay for Life are working on it too!
The Post Office wants to raise rates again, citing volume as one of the reasons, how about instead we reduce their work load, earn some $, and save some trees by stopping the constant flow of unwanted junk mail!
How about a similar list to prevent my mailbox from filling up w/ unsolicited credit card offers, charity requests, catalogs, and anything addressed to "occupant" or "our neighbor at"?
You can have your name removed from a catalog mailing list, but as soon as one catalog gets stopped, another begins (apparently my late 20s self buying a baby shower gift online demonstrated that I was the target demographic for Pottery Barn Teen and Victoria's REAL Secret is that no matter when I check my mail, there will be a catalog from them).
I receive multiple credit card offers each week - sometimes with humorous results like one from Delta's frequent flier program offering me 32,500 miles to get their card, while the next envelope is a non FF piece of mail offering me 35,000 - but all with a high risk for identity theft and fraud.
March of Dimes has now spent my total donation $ amount many times over by sending me address labels, donation requests, and dimes and has removed itself from my list of charities by annoying me and killing trees. Unicef, Doctors w/o Borders, and Relay for Life are working on it too!
The Post Office wants to raise rates again, citing volume as one of the reasons, how about instead we reduce their work load, earn some $, and save some trees by stopping the constant flow of unwanted junk mail!