Don't Bring Junk Mail in Your House

By

Lilac

You are right. Just more clutter. Open it outside and pitch it.

By

mom-mom of 9

It's ok to bring junk mail in your home. I have to side w/Glenn'sMom on this one. Some junk mail may be a bill, or a more important document, not necessarily junk mail. Take it in the house, scan through it, if it's in fact junk mail, tear the front (or back, whichever has your name on it) cover off and shred it if it's a magazine. Shred the rest of your junk mail, anything with your name on it. Think "Identity Theft"!

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phillypretzel

I have a can all ready for junk mail! It doesn't get past the living room door! I spent many hours cleaning what I thought was important papers but it was just junk mail! No more! Now I kid the mailman to bring all he wants. It just goes in the recycle bin or trash can. Now I only spend a few hours-not days- sorting paperwork.

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Deeli

Thursday_Next, yep, I am sure you've not heard about it but try going to the actual counter of your local post office and asking how to have junk mail delivery stopped. Worked for me and over two years clean now ;-)

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Thursday_Next

Our post office doesn't even have a wastebasket inside or out much less a recycle basket (I've never heard of such a thing in a post office anywhere that I've lived). I don't think the postmistress wants our junk mail any more than we do!

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Heather, Australia

I shred all my junk mail and use it in the poultry pens in the nesting boxes instead of straw. Shredded paper is also great for mulch in the garden. The worms love it.

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LI Roe

Depending on where you live (in US or outside), there is a website that you can register for free to eliminate catalogs. I send them back, marked return to sender when I receive stuff, until they eliminate my name (I also call the toll free number). My town has a recycle program and I check the junk mail to make sure I am not going to receive unwanted items, then it goes in the recycle bin to be picked up once a week.

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Glenn'sMom

I would caution about not opening junk mail if you have an American Express card. I began getting magazines that I had not ordered because I didn't respond to a seperate-from-my-bill letter from AE telling me they would send it UNLESS I asked them not to. Of course, they them added it to my bill. I had not used my AE card for a couple of years so just junked the notice. Now the account is closed and ALL mail from AE goes into the garbage.

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Deeli

I am not sure about other countries but here in the US you can fill out a form at your local Post Office requesting 'no junkmail'.

Occasionally a piece or two will slip in but I haven't received piles of junk mail liked I used to since requesting it to stop ;-)

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jehosophat jones

English junk mail usually has a plastic window in the envelope which our recyclers don't take. I fume when I have to tear it out.

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PICO

I know exactly what you mean, there's so much of it.