Website to Stop Junkmail

Last week I shared that I had gone to this Sustainable Living Workshop that was interesting in the way that you take the parts that might be good for you and just let the rest roll. One of the great resources they recommended was a website called

http://www.proquo.com/

At this website you create an account with a name and address and password and then you go to this tab that lists all the major marketers of weekly junkmail. You can individually get your name removed from them. If you happen to like getting … for example the weekly ValPak packet in your mailbox you can continue getting it. Some of the weekly junk mail kings don’t send their stuff to every zip code. Some of the prolific junk mail companies require you to write a letter. This website does the letter for you. You click on a tab and they pop it up complete with your mailing information on it. All you have to do is address it.

A few years ago, one of my most favorite mags… Readers Digest (which has gone downhill over the years) sent me an offer and I purchased several subscriptions for Christmas. I paid for them. They sent me to collections. No matter what I wrote to them, they never seemed to get it. They kept writing me threatening stuff without any input of mine. I swore it did not matter how much I liked the magazine… I would never again subscribe to a magazine who was relentless in their marketing as Readers Digest. I still get weekly garbage in my mail from them. I also get stuff pretty regularly in my e-mail from them which I do not dare reply to remove my name. Once you do that, then they know they have a good address. I just keep calling it spam and hope my filter finally figures out that these are one of the companies that I need protection from. So this website allowed me to write a letter that will go to the right place to get my name removed. That is awesome.

Another part of this website has a zillion catalogs. Now I do not get catalogs but my daughter does and my mother gets them all. You can go to this site and choose if you currently do not get them and want them, you can get your name added to the catalog mailing list. If you get them and do not want them, you can get your name removed. Now is that not all about giving the consumer control? DKU