CatalogChoice.org Removes Unwanted Catalogs from Your Mailbox

Do you have too much junk in your mailbox? If you are anything like my family, you come home to stacks of useless and unwanted catalogs every night that wind up in the trash or taking up room on the coffee table until they get thrown out. Now a new service offered by CatalogChoice.org that will let you decline paper catalogs that you no longer want to receive.

CatalogChoice.org is sponsored by the Ecology Center, which promotes environmentally and socially responsible practices through programs that educate, demonstrate, and provide direct services. Its mission is to reduce the number of unwanted, repeat and unsolicited catalogs sent every day to people like you and I who end up just throwing them away. Catalog Choice also benefits merchants who can save money by eliminating the cost of sending unwanted catalogs to consumers.

Using Catalog Choice is simple. Just sign up with your name and primary mailing address, pick the catalogs you want to decline, and wait at least ten weeks to see the results. Catalog Choice promises that if you do continue to receive the unwanted and unsolicited mailings on your list that you can return to CatalogChoice.org to report the infraction and it will follow up with the merchant. Furthermore, Catalog Choice only provides merchants with the information they need to take your name off their mailing list - not your email address.

The most irritating catalogs that I get in the mail that I wish would just disappear include the Harry & David catalogs that invariably show up around the holidays. I may have ordered from Harry & David once eons ago, and I think the catalog has now followed me to three different addresses. Sure, gift baskets are nice. But how many towers of fruit can one person eat?

Another catalog that fills up my trash can faster than almost any other is Lillian Vernon. Yes, I know they have free personalization and cute items for the home. However, I only have a limited amount of shelf space for brick-a-brack, and my children do not need their names plastered on every rug, picture frame, and wall covering in the house.

Finally, every month I get a catalog from Home Bistro, one of those meal delivery places that cooks "gourmet" food then flash freezes it and ships it to you in a big cooler. Once again, I made the mistake of ordering from them once and have been bombarded with mail order catalogs ever since. I think I still have most of the last shipment icing over in the freezer.

No matter what your least favorite catalogs are, apply at CatalogChoice.org to decline them. If you do not see your catalog on the list, you can suggest that it gets added to the database.

Sources:

CatalogChoice.org, "Frequently Asked Questions."

EcologyCenter.org, "About us."