sounds to me like you have a strong dislike of junk mail...lol

My neighbor burns them in his outdoor fireplace. (My shredder still works)

Wow- I am impressed by your diligence to destroy your mail! I burn mine outside, but when my shredder died due to overwork, it was actually covered by warranty and they sent me a new one! And it was only a $15 shredder! So if your's is still kinda new (less than a year old), I'd look into that. Or just email the company regardless. It doesn't hurt to try!

if you get things like credit card offers and others that come with a postage paid return envelope, put all the mail back into the return envelope with REMOVE ME FROM MAILING LISTS in bold letters on the mail. then stick it in the mail box and send it back at their expense! i did that for about six months, and get hardly any junk mail. most catalogues will have a number you can call to get removed from their lists.

Thanks allwayslively for the info on junk mail

tHANX..!!

you're very welcome...also, on the credit cards you DO use, there is a number to 'opt out' of them selling your info to mailing lists...i think it's 1-800-5opt out...but i'm not sure. you can always call customer service and they can give you the number. i HATE junk mail!! i used to get over half dozen credit offers a week! now i get maybe one a month.

I've done the stuff your postage paid envelope from credit cards! Maybe that will also help support the Post Office...stuff it as full as you can get...they pay by weight I'm assuming!

It takes forever to shred...so we burn ours in the firepit! Burn, Baby, Burn! LOL!

There is an excellent article (http://audubonmagazine.org/features0901/habitat.html) in the most recent Audubon magazine about the boreal forest being cut down and important habitat lost to feed our desire for magazines, catalogs and other paper products. For example, Sears produces 425 million catalogs each year, 270 of them for Land's End (a subsidiary). There is "a growing clamour for a Do Not Mail system similar to the Do Not Call registry." To sign an electronic petition to ask Congress to create such a registry visit donotmail.org.

And visit https://www.directmail.com/directory/mail_preference/ and www.optoutprescreen.com for other ways to remove your name from mailing lists. I've done both and I barely get any junk mail now. I especially don't get a 1001 credit card offers! Thank goodness!

And by all means, if you get catalogs in the mail that you don't want, call up the 800# and request to be removed from their mailing list! If you hate phones like I do, email the company! It costs them money to send out the catalogs, so they are happy to oblige!

Okay, I feel like I'm sound a bit like an advertisement. It's just that the environment is something that I am passionate about, and the first step in recycling is REDUCE. So if you can, then please do. (=

If you ever order thing from a catalogue, etc., your address will be shared by the company and you will get tons of things......AARP is the WORST!! I just tear my name and address from catalogues, etc., then I clean out the cat litter, close up the plastic bag, and put in the trash......if anyone wants to go through cat litter to get to my address, etc., then more power to 'em....
;-)

Here is an article on getting off of those mailing lists:
http://www.savvysugar.com/869574/

Did you know there's a way to put a stop to this endless stream of junk mail? You have the right to opt out of receiving unsolicited credit card offers which, by the way, are based on your credit report. To find out how to opt out read more.

There are two choices; you can call 1-888-5-OPT-OUT or go to the Opt Out website and follow these steps.

1. Click opt-out button.
2. Choose to opt-out for five years or permanently. The permanent option requires that you mail in a form and the five year option can be completed online.
3. Provide name, address, social security number and date of birth. The site says that your social security number and date of birth are optional, but they recommend supplying those details to successfully process your request.

Credit companies have 30 days to comply, so expect to receive offers during the month following your request. Do credit card offers annoy you enough to opt-out?

Just discovered a 'movement' to reduce telephone book deliveries. I call it a 'movement' because it's kinda new and who knows how effective it is. But if you anything like me, I don't need a new phone book each year because I barely use mine! Anyway, if you are interested in (maybe) stopping your yearly delivery, check out yellowpagesgoesgreen.org to opt out! That page also some some good links to similar stuff.....