Catalog Choice and Unwanted Mail

Thousands of homes across the country receive unwanted mail every week. Sometimes, even after requesting to no longer receive the unwanted mail and catalogs, they keep on coming. CatalogChoice.org offers the incredible service of reducing unsolicited mail, which in turn helps to save the environment.

According to CatalogChoice.org, "Each year 19 billion catalogs are mailed to American consumers." This breaks down to approximately 53 millions trees used to make catalogs, which are often unwanted. So why not stop the unwanted mailbox clutter and save the environment? CatalogChoice.org provides the service by having the customer sign up on their website, identify which catalogs are unwanted, then CatalogChoice.org contacts the merchants to have them stop sending unwanted mail to the customer. If the merchant continues to send unwanted mail, all the customer has to do is report it and CatalogChoice.org will follow up with the merchants and have them discontinue the distribution of the unwanted mail. This service, from signing up to any follow-ups needed, is completely free.

I have, for the past few months, been receiving unwanted catalogs from JCPenney, Dillards, and Delias. The JCPenney catalog, by itself, it pretty large and if I have no use for it, I don't want trees to be cut down for its production, only to be followed by postal workers having to work to get it to my front door, all for nothing. I have requested numerous times to have the shipment of these catalogs to my home discontinued, but they still arrive in my mailbox like clockwork.

I don't know if they send more catalogs because they hope that I will get bored and browse through the catalogs or if there is simply a delay in the discontinuation of sending catalogs to my home, but I will definitely be signing up with CatalogChoice.org. I always feel bad when I get a catalog in the mail and turn around to throw it away. And although, I do recycle the catalogs, I'd prefer if they had not been needlessly created for a customer who did not want them.

If you have any catalogs that you don't want sent to your residence any longer, sign up for CatalogChoice.org, not only can you reduce the amount of time you spend looking through unwanted mail, but also save a few trees in the process. The website has a full list of personal benefits as well as environmental benefits, so take the time and weigh the options.