unsubscribing from thursday ads/junk mail?

[mermaidcafe.livejournal.com]

I know there are services that will take your name/address off junk mail lists,but does anyone know if there's a way of not getting the bundle of ads and coupons and whatnot that come every Thursday?

Answered, thanks! Apparently you can unsubscribe by filling out the "Have you seen me?" missing kid postcard, which also cleverly has unsubscribing information on it.

Comments

[jadelennox]

on the same day, you get a card that says "have you seen me" that has a picture of a lost kid on it. That card comes with every bunch of junk mail, and has the unsubscribe information on it. Other people in this community have reported their mail carriers ignoring the fact that they were unsubscribed and just dumping a bunch of junk mail at the house anyway, but I have never had a problem; every time I moved to a house I unsubscribe in my mail carriers have always paid attention.

[mermaidcafe.livejournal.com]

Thanks! That's helpful.

[teele-sq.livejournal.com]

I could see the mail carriers ignoring it... it's what keeps them employed.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/161231

[m00n.livejournal.com]

I find it *patently offensive* that the Post Office, which is, of course, a government institution, would ever advocate something so obviously wasteful and useless just for the purpose of keeping people employed. Given the carbon footprint of creating this crap and sending it around the country, I think we'd all be better off as taxpayers even if we just paid these guys to sit around and do nothing all day rather than do this. Yeesh.

I suspect this is one of those things we'll start to see a lot less of once we've got a meaningful CO2 cap-and-trade system in place.

[mermaidcafe.livejournal.com]

Call me crazy, but I'd prefer they kept people employed by actually having real mail get where it's supposed to go.

[m00n.livejournal.com]

Presumably there isn't enough of that anymore to keep the majority of postal workers employed.

[mermaidcafe.livejournal.com]

Got that; just attempting a joke about there being such little mail and still having mail screwups all the time.

[m00n.livejournal.com]

I wonder how much more it would cost to employ all those people on the first class mail service trying to make that more efficient and reliable rather than having them all sending me stuff I don't want.