Make your mail box “greener” by reducing the amount of junk mail you receive. Register with the Direct Marketing Association’s, Choice Program,“DMA Choice”, to remove your name from mailing lists.

Local mail box stuffers also contribute to our heaps of junk mail. Next time you receive a coupon from a local service in your area, let the owner know you would prefer to be notified of the discount by email.

Every little bit we can do to prevent junk mail will help keep our world “greener”. -R.G.

Junk mail is on the rise. Over the past decade as worldwide letter mail volumes have seen little growth, junk mail has been growing both domestically and abroad. Thirty percent of all non-parcel mail delivered in the entire world is US junk mail. While statistics vary by source, there are about 100 billion of these unsolicited mailings generated and delivered in our country annually. With about 45% of junk mail never opened, municipalities and waste haulers are handling millions of tons of unwanted paper. (more…)