Remove Yourself from the Deluge of Junk Mail
Friday, May 30, 2008 15:40Opening my mailbox, pulling out a heap of mail and finding that 99% of it is junk irritates me to no end. A few years ago, I requested that the credit agencies stop giving out my information. There was a decrease in mail but I was still getting stuff like Penny Saver, which my mailman told me there was no way to stop! :/ All I do is throw that stuff away and I have to imagine that hundreds of thousands of other households do the same thing. What a waste! All of that paper, printing, electricity and man hours for something like that to just be tossed.
And all of that doesn’t even mention the fact that mailing lists are a prime hunting ground for identity thieves. Hell, even opening your mailbox and digging through it in ONE DAY could give someone enough information about you to potentially open credit in your name.
Today, I found ProQuo. This site asks for your info and then gives you the option to unsubscribe from just about everything you can think of. Some of them, it can unsubscribe you from on the spot. For the ones that require a mailed request, it even gives you a form letter to sign and mail in. It sure beats digging around for individual addresses and ways to unsubscribe.
It’s free and comes highly recommended from other trustworthy organizations : http://www.proquo.com. It’s not a gtd tool really… but it was a HUGE help in getting my mailbox and personal information organized.
