{"id":1445,"date":"2008-06-08T21:49:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T04:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/08\/stopping-junk-mail-aka-paper-spam\/"},"modified":"2008-06-08T21:49:09","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T04:49:09","slug":"stopping-junk-mail-aka-paper-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/08\/stopping-junk-mail-aka-paper-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopping junk mail aka paper spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a petition out at <a href=\"http:\/\/salsa.democracyinaction.org\/o\/281\/t\/5980\/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=941\">Do Not Mail: The Petition<\/a> that&#8217;s intended to convince Congressional leaders of the need for a Do Not Mail Registry that provides a single place from which you can basically unsubscribe from all the crap that ends up in your mailbox. Sounds good to me.<\/p>\n<p>But if you want to take immediate action on the junk mail, try the tips listed here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.privacyrights.org\/fs\/fs4-junk.htm\">Privacy Rights Clearinghouse: Reducing Junk Mail<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty comprehensive, and includes all the following sources of junk mail:<\/p>\n<p>1.  Mailing lists of major national marketers<br \/>\n2. Flyers and advertising supplements<br \/>\n3. Catalog, mail order lists and magazines<br \/>\n4. Pre-approved offers of credit<br \/>\n5. Phone books and reverse directories<br \/>\n6. U.S. Postal Service and change of address data file<br \/>\n7. Charities and nonprofits<br \/>\n8. Sweepstakes and prizes<br \/>\n9. Product registration cards and consumer surveys<br \/>\n10. Supermarket loyalty cards<br \/>\n11. Public records<br \/>\n12. Data compilers and mailing list companies<\/p>\n<p>Even if you&#8217;re not particularly keen on going through the hassle of saving paper, fuel, and energy, you should definitely deal with the credit bureaus and your own financial institutions. Those pre-approved offers and balance transfer checks are easy targets for identity theft and can screw up your credit faster than you can fix it. For the credit bureaus, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.optoutprescreen.com\/\">https:\/\/www.optoutprescreen.com\/<\/a> to opt out. For your credit card and checking accounts, call the number on the back of your credit\/ATM card and tell them to remove you from all mailing and phone lists and not share any information with anyone else permanently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a petition out at Do Not Mail: The Petition that&#8217;s intended to convince Congressional leaders of the need for a Do Not Mail Registry that provides a single place from which you can basically unsubscribe from all the crap that ends up in your mailbox. Sounds good to me. But if you want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-useful-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psIKy-nj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studioglyphic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}