ID Theft
Does anybody know how to stop junk mail?
I get so much junk mail, it is ridiculous. I get more junk mail than bills. Sometime I will have a mail box full of junk mail and no bills. The no bills part I enjoy. I get tons of credit card applications, warranty applications, accidental death insurance applications, life insurance applications and, coupons. I am getting hired of shredding this stuff. I have to shred the applications because someone might commit identity theft. The biggest thing I am afraid of is the mailman putting that mail in someone else’s mailbox.
Public Comments
- Take off any possible identity theft stuff, put it ALL back into the envelope they provide, including the original envelope, and dump the return envelope inthe mail without a stamp. The company that sends it to you has to pay return postage. You can write 'do not want' on the outside, but they'll likely send you several more. Just keep returning the paper to them at their cost. Someone I know also returns a flattened piece of cat poop with each one, but that's going a bit too far.
- ROTFLMAO at the cat poop comment! OK, here's what you can do: - Contact your credit card company(ies), insurance company(ies), cable company, and anyone else you do business with and ask that your information not be sold to anyone outdside their company; - Contact the companies that send you the mail and ask to be removed from their mail list(s); - Mark the offer letters "return to sender," and drop them into the mail; - Do not give your personal information to any stores; - Contact the direct marketing association and find out what other "no junk mail" options are available. Remember, the more people you give your information to, the less chance you'll get junk mail.
