Junk Mail
I recently was a little late paying some of my bills. Yeah, I know, funny. But it wasn't because I didn't have the money, it was because I get so much GODDAMN junk mail that I really can't deal with the mail every day, and sometimes important bills get buried and forgotten about.
I used to send back pre-paid envelopes with heavy garbage just to make those people pay more for my time. But that's obviously not very constructive, so I decided to just call or reply to every single piece of junk mail and tell them to stop spamming me. Then I just wait and see what happens. It's a pain in the ass but I think that it will save lots of my time in the future.
I also found some places that might end up stopping a lot of the mail with one phone call or web form.
I also plan on sending letters to my companies that I do business with, like banks, to ask them to not sell information. I recently read the privacy policy from Wells Fargo and they have an opt-in policy which means that those bastards are selling my information right now until I let them know that I think they are fuck-heads.
I used to send back pre-paid envelopes with heavy garbage just to make those people pay more for my time. But that's obviously not very constructive, so I decided to just call or reply to every single piece of junk mail and tell them to stop spamming me. Then I just wait and see what happens. It's a pain in the ass but I think that it will save lots of my time in the future.
I also found some places that might end up stopping a lot of the mail with one phone call or web form.
- Those supermarket flyers with the missing person card attached can be stopped.
- Pre-screened credit card offers can be stopped.
- ValPak Savings offers can be stopped.
I also plan on sending letters to my companies that I do business with, like banks, to ask them to not sell information. I recently read the privacy policy from Wells Fargo and they have an opt-in policy which means that those bastards are selling my information right now until I let them know that I think they are fuck-heads.
3 Comments:
What is this "pay bills". I haven't paid a bill in over 2 years. Online man, every single one of my bills is paid online.
Not that junk mail isn't annoying... it is, but for me - it all goes straight to the recycle bin outside of netflix, things that look like personal mail (cards), and expected pieces of mail. 10 seconds a day, max.
Korwin, don't you worry about identity thieves? They can go through your trash, take a credit card offer, sign your name and get a brand new credit card. They can do this even if you tear the paper up a bit since humans don't even see the paper in most cases, they are just scanned automatically.
I shred these type of things, which make up a very large percentage of my junk mail.
hmmm... no I guess I don't really worry about identity theft... I mean with global warming and the war in iraq and everything - something had to drop off the radar ;)
opting out of pre-screened credit card offers is probably just a "good thing" to do anyway, but yeah, I don't let it bother me...
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