Junk Mail

Making a Green Choice This Earth Day

Chuck Teller | Posted 04.18.2012

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Chuck Teller

This Earth Day, as people try to reduce their carbon footprints, they need not look any further than the junk in their mail boxes.

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People Always Have the Right to Opt Out

Chuck Teller | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Consumer Privacy, Cancel Catalogs, Jay Rockefeller, John McCain, Paper Waste, Catalogs, John Kerry, Junk Mail, Rep. Edward Markey, Joe Barton, Online Tracking Opt Out, Stop Junk Mail, Jackie Speier, Green News
Chuck Teller

Americans receive nearly 90 billion pieces of advertising mail every year. With thousands of companies offering to share their mailing lists, that adds up to an information super highway where individuals are losing control.

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How To Stop Junk Mail

The Huffington Post | Joanna Zelman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over 100 billion pieces of unsolicited mail are stuffed into U.S. mailboxes each year. Not only is this junk mail considered by many to be simply anno...

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Newspaper Droop Test: Postal Service Charging More For 'Droopy' Items

AP | CHUCK BARTELS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newspapers, Automated Sorting, Junk Mail, Droop Test, Postage, Usps, Newspaper, Postal Service, Small Newspaper, Droopy Newspapers, Envelopes, National Newspaper Association, Magazines, Media News

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Even if a newspaper is filled with hard news, the U.S. Postal Service is checking to see whether it's droopy. Under a rule ...

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Chipotle, Lunch Box Team Up For Campaign Turning Junk Mail Into School Meals

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chipotle, The Lunch Box, Education, School Lunches, Public Schools, Junk Mail, Stop Junk Mail, Childhood Obesity, Children's Health, Healthy School Lunches, Impact News

National restaurant chain Chipotle has launched a campaign to help children across the nation get healthy school lunches. Chipotle is asking the publi...

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Thanks to Spam, It's Not Junk Mail Anymore

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sarah O'Leary

If you want to reach your consumers in the internet age, tell the youngsters in the office that you're kickin' it old school with USPS.

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Subsidizing Junk Mail in the Great Recession

Todd Paglia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Climate Change, Junk Mail, Green, Waste, Conservation, Consumption, Common Sense, Recession, Home News
Todd Paglia

If you think receiving your daily dose of junk mail just kills trees, clogs landfills, exacerbates climate change, is an invitation to identity theft,...

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Longing For a Paperless Existence

Chris Brassington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Brassington

I did a little research to find out the effects of direct mail on the environment. The stats astounded me.

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Post Office Lost $3.8 billion Last Year

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Junk Mail, Economy, Post Office, Usps, Post Office Earnings Report, Email, Cost-Cutting, Postal Service, Mail, Recession, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Postal Service reported a loss of $3.8 billion last year, despite a reduction of 40,000 full-time positions and other cost-cutt...

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A Modest Sign of Recovery

Anne Hill | Posted 11.17.2011

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Anne Hill

To gauge the pulse of the nation, I just step into my town's post office and see what strange things the mail has brought.

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Junk Mail's Endless Summer

Todd Paglia | Posted 05.25.2011

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Todd Paglia

Junk mail's waste and nuisance is obvious; the system supporting it is galling: Our standard postage subsidizes junk mail.

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The Greenest and Best From PC Mag's Top 100 Undiscovered Sites List

Dave Burdick | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dave Burdick

PC Magazine just churned out a pretty righteous list of what it calls the top 100 undiscovered web sites. It's very well done and here are a couple that are both useful and green(-ish).

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10 Creative Ways To Reuse Your Junk Mail

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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100 billion pieces of junk mail are sent annually, which accounts for one-third of all United States mail. According to Treehugger, Americans spend ov...

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Junk Mail Marketers Try To Go Green

New York Times | Claudia Deutsch | Posted 05.25.2011

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MOST marketers readily concede it: getting rid of direct mail -- or junk mail, as environmentalists and most recipients call it -- would save a lot of...

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Stop Junk Mail Now: 3 Easy Tips

Olivia Zaleski | Posted 05.25.2011

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Olivia Zaleski

They may seem innocent, but common companies often sell your personal spending information to credit bureaus. Credit bureaus use the information to create lists based on consumer characteristics (i.e. income brackets, spending habits, boxer-briefs preferences) and rent them to marketers, credit card and insurance industries in search of specific demographics.

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6 Things To Do With Your Old Junk

Danny Seo | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Green Living, The Green Life, Junk Mail, Organizing Junk Drawer, Stop Junk Mail, Healthy Living News
Danny Seo

I think to say I'm fastidious would be an understatement. I have a ritual that my close friends find a bit odd, but I find it keeps my life and home ...

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