How you can stem the junk mail tide

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  October 30, 2006 ;     555 words ......littered with tons of junk mail each day - and the problem...annoyance of receiving junk mail; there is also an environmental...Association, 78,000 tonnes of junk mail were sent to landfill...consumers getting unwanted junk mail by contacting the advertisers directly. ...

COLUMN: Junk mail isn't only a burden for you

University Wire;  January 22, 2007 ;     533 words ......sorting through the massive amount of junk mail only to find one or two items of pertinent...filling up your trash bins every day. Junk mail is undoubtedly annoying, but also bears...are lucky enough to have ways to stop junk mail, saving trees and patience. The creation...

Tide of junk mail on the rise; Messages getting through-study

The Press;  August 26, 2006 ;     492 words ...Noticed your letterbox groaning with junk mail lately? It is not just your imagination...mayhem. Christchurch is in the grips of a junk mail bonanza, with more companies bombarding...would not go as far as putting up a "no junk mail" sign on her box. "You get the specials...

Stop junk mail and save the planet; The Internet hasn't slowed down the...

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ......around the Internet, good old-fashioned junk mail, the kind that clogs your home's mailbox...gas emissions from the production of junk mail are equal to those of 3.5 million cars. Beyond that, each year junk mail production in the U.S. consumes more...

No plans for junk mail bylaws here

The Nelson Mail;  October 18, 2006 ;     218 words ......be following Auckland's hard line on junk mail control. The Auckland City Council this...advertising material in letterboxes marked "No junk mail'' a punishable offence, with fines of...restricts the distributor from placing junk mail in letterboxes that are already full...

JUNK-MAIL NUISANCE TOUGH TO STAMP OUT

Sun Publications (IL);  July 28, 1999 ;     577 words ......Instead, each day brings a new barrage of junk mail to my mailbox. It leads me to wonder why junk mail never seems to get lost in the mail. Heaven...You know what this means, don't you? More junk mail. If the salespeople can't get to you by...

How to reduce junk mail

Oakland Tribune;  September 12, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Junk mail can clutter the mailboxes of the rich...open their mailboxes. In addition, some junk mail, such as pre- approved credit card offers...door to identity theft. But the deluge of junk mail can be controlled by contacting the marketers...

Milford opts to recycle junk mail

New Haven Register;  February 21, 2006 ;     277 words ...Junk mail is getting a new life in Milford: residents...that allows municipalities to recycle junk mail, and Mayor James L. Richetelli Jr. said...plastics and newspapers. Now, properly bagged junk mail also will be picked up curbside by the...

Letter: Your view - Junk mail is such a waste; Comment OF THE...

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  December 22, 2007 ;     117 words ......strongly about the ridiculous amount of junk mail we receive every single day. As if getting junk mail through the post wasn't bad enough, we...average household receives 560 pieces of junk mail a year and almost all of it will make...

Qld: Junk mail is just legalised littering, council says

AAP General News (Australia);  October 13, 2008 ;     382 words ...Qld: Junk mail is just legalised littering, council...Queensland mayor has declared war on junk mail, likening it to legalised littering and...distributors of catalogue advertising who leave junk mail on footpaths, front lawns, in parks and...

Bulk of junk mail amazes woman

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  January 28, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Bulk of junk mail amazes woman A year later she has collected...something, she does it. Case in point: The junk-mail project. Now, Mary's a kind soul. She...old was fed up. Fed up with all the junk mail she and her husband, Ray, were getting...

Advice helps to avoid junk mail ; Last year residents of the South West...

Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  May 28, 2008 ;     202 words ......estimated 331million items of junk mail. It is also estimated that...additional 4.5 million pieces of junk mail were sent to dead people...management specialists the REaD Group. The company's chief executive...householders to better control junk mail include: ...

MoneyForMail.com Crowns the Winners of 'The King or Queen of Junk Mail'...

PR Newswire;  April 7, 2000 ;     313 words ......PRNewswire/ -- Fed up with a mailbox stuffed with junk mail? Did Fido just receive his third pre-approved...card offer? If you think you receive the most junk mail or the most outrageous junk mail of anyone, you may have met your match! MoneyForMail...

Junk mail still needs shrunk

Sun, The: St. Charles (IL);  July 7, 2004 ;     576 words ......read all the advice on how to get rid of junk mail, spam and telemarketers? I have done...wouldn't get through. Now for solutions to junk mail. You can't stop the pieces addressed...Service say it would go bankrupt if not for junk mail. That is not logical. Road and services...

CITY ENCOURAGES JUNK MAIL REDUCTION TO HELP ENVIRONMENT, SAVE RESOURCES

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 24, 2007 ;     360 words ......region in the Bay Area Recycling Outreach Coalition's campaign to reduce wasteful junk mail. The Bay Area Junk Mail Reduction Campaign helps individuals reduce junk mail through five easy steps outlined in the Junk Mail Reduction Kit, which can be...