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May 24, 2023Liked by David Friedman

Another tip for people who love mail: Postcrossing! You send postcards and get postcards back from other people in random countries. Makes the trip to the mailbox fun again. :)

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May 25, 2023Liked by David Friedman

Just ran though this list and took our address off a bunch of things. The ones we've found most wasteful are the Save coupon things; not sure how they'll stop delivering to us when they're only ever addressed to "RESIDENT" with no actual address on them (Akin to EDDM) but we'll see!

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I’ve been looking for the way to opt out of CC offers…THANK YOU!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Jun 9, 2023Liked by David Friedman

I came across this post in a daily email newsletter. And ran through all of these. Thank you SO much! I’ve been tired of junk mail for YEARS! It causes me stress because rather than go through it immediately it ends up piling up. So now I have a reason to go through it and see it trickle down to nothingness. I’m bookmarking this post for when some of the temporary ones expire or in case I move in the future. Thanks again!

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May 23, 2023Liked by David Friedman

I love this newsletter David! Based on your recommendation a couple years ago I did the PaperKarma and now I only go through the mail once a week, if that! Now with all your tips I have other new things to try :)

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Excellent. I’ve been fanatically unsubscribing to emails for over a year but I am convinced that just sends my email address to more and more spambots...they just keep coming. Using some of these tips for snail mail now. On the EDDM, I wonder if anyone ever marks them “return to sender” and dumps them back in mailbox.

Ironically I subscribe to the usps mail delivery email which just clutters my email inbox even more.

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This is the most comprehensive and helpful list for clearing out junk mail. Thank you!

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Axciom web link has a transposition with the XC as CX

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Your postal service is funded by junk mail. A bit to ponder.

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Great list, and PaperKarma is just genius!

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May 29, 2023·edited May 29, 2023

I live in Finland and here I learned that simply putting a sticker to your door saying "no advertising, thank you" stops mail-people flooding your door/mailbox with non-sense. It really works.

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https://www.catalogchoice.org/ is a site to be taken off catalog mailing lists.

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Do you get political campaign mail?

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This is great, but unfortunately I need to find a Canadian version of this post. My small condo mailbox gets crammed with crap and I'm sick of it.

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