Opt Out of Catalog Mailing Lists
By: Joanne | May 06, 2008 | Category: Home and Family
Do you get too many catalogs in the mail? There was a time, back in the dark ages before the internet, that I was a committed catalog shopper. But those days are over, baby—I’m an online shopper now, and the catalogs are nothing but kindling to get the fire started. If I’m not ordering from the catalogs, why do they continue to arrive every day!?! It’s like they’re hunting you down! Recently I ordered some shoes from an online retailer and a few weeks later a catalog filled with ugly, horrible shoes arrived in the mail. Look out, someone’s gotten wise to the fact that my family wears shoes!
When you think about it, unwanted catalogs are a terrible waste of resources. There’s the paper and the ink and distribution and the processing all for something that I’m going to throw directly into the recycle bin. I’ve finally decided to do something about this shameful waste in my life.
If you think you have no control over these mailings, you’re wrong. You can register your mail preferences with the Direct Marketing Association to be removed from (or added to) the mailing lists of your choice. Or call the number printed on the catalog and ask them to remove you from their list. I’ve been doing this a lot lately. As soon as the catalog comes in the mail, I just pick up the phone—it doesn’t take long, and I’ve never had one hassle me about it. They tell me that it takes a number of weeks until you’re really out of the catalog mailing cycle, but that’s ok—by summer I’ll be catalog free!
If you’re interested, there are ways to opt out of unwanted credit card offers, unsolicited email, and cell phone spam, too.
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Here's a tip for you. When you register your mail preferences to Direct Marketing Association, you have to include different iterations of your name or anyone else in your household.
For example, you need to opt out for:
Mary Jane Smith
MJ Smith
Mary J Smith
M Jane Smith
I know I registered with DMA to opt out, but started receiving all these catalogs with my name misspelled. So they find you somehow!
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