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You Can Stop Junk Mail
The amount of junk mail sent each year in the USA is staggering - some four million tons, nearly half of which is never opened. Reducing the amount of junk mail you receive will lessen the impact that junk mail production has on the environment. Most companies and organizations sell your name and address unless you specifically ask them to stop. To remove your name from most mailing lists, send your name and address to:
Mail Preference Service
Direct Marketing Association
P.O. Box 9008
Farmingdale, NY 11735-9008
Include your name and address in all the ways it appears on your junk mail. The Direct Marketing Association estimates that listing with their mail preference service will stop 75% of all national mailings to your address. Requests to stop junk mail are kept active for five years and will not affect companies you have previously ordered from. It may take up to six months for a request to make a noticeable difference in your mailbox.
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Additional Ways To Stop Unwanted Mail
- If you receive mail you don't want, let the sender know. Call the 800 number or return the reply card requesting to be taken off their mailing list.
- When you give your name to a publication, store or organization, or when you order a product, service or fill out a warranty card, request that your name not be shared.
- Credit card companies probably sell your name most often. Call and ask them not to release your name and address to anyone for marketing, mailing or promotional purposes.
- Call 1-888-5-OPT-OUT (1-888-567-8688) to stop major credit companies from sending you credit card offers.
Kids Can Save the World
What kind of world do you want when you grow up? Do you want it to be a world with clean water to drink, safe air to breathe and a healthy environment with abundent wildlife and beautiful trees? There's a lot of things you can do today that will protect the world tomorrow. Follow the A-B-C's and start saving the world today!
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