It amazes me how much junk mail I get these days. Going to the mailbox no longer is the anticipation-filled happy trip it used to be. Now, as I walk the 10 steps to my postal receptacle, I'm usually filled with dread, as a big job sifting through the junk invariably follows.
And you can't just toss everything, either. Credit card offers need to be shredded, and the unmarked envelopes of sneaky marketers need to be opened, just in case there's something of value in there.
I resent the imposition on my valuable time. But even more so, I resent the process that makes me an unwilling party to filling a landfill. What's more, there are a few catalog companies that send me not one, but several copies of each issue. I'll never understand that one.
Well, whether you care about the environment, or you just want to cut down on the time required to sift through the day's offerings, there's a new website that can help. Catalogchoice.org is a free service that, in its short 3-month life, has already helped nearly 400,000 people to opt out of receiving more than 5 million unwanted catalogs. The site's owners say that's about 60 million catalogs in a year.
So today, catalogchoice.org gets the Garden Detective prize for saving the environment -- and my sanity.
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We used to have the same problem. Then some years back Italy made junk mail illegal. Publicity material can now only be sent to customers who have requested it. Everything in your mailbox is there because you need or want it to be. Bliss! if only they could sort the Internet out too ...