Just Say NO to Junk Mail
I am careful not to add my name to too many phoney drawings, where I have little chance of winning but a big chance of lots of junk mail. I don’t mind throwing my name in the hat and geting mail from a business I am interested in, but I don’t like my address sold. Recently, i did a little experiment. I signed up for a trial of a magazine and spelled my name slightly differently. Oh, it still legally is my name but I hardly sign up for everything just using my first and middle initial and then last name. Within a month or two, I got all sorts of things in the mail relating to rug steam cleaning to that version of my name.
Of course, the company I signed up with gets to send me stuff because I asked for it, but I am tired of my name being sold. Of course, they make things pretty tricky saying that you can check a box to let them know you want to receive mail from them and their subsidiaries, but not others. Their subsidiaries could populate the yellow pages for all i know.
Right now, the Privacy Council is giving out 500 free memberships to try their service to End Junk Mail. I am going to take the service for a test spin, and let you know next month if all of the dastardly “No Credit? No Problem!” postcards decide to find another mail slot to hide in.
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