It seems these days that the US Postal Service is mainly a purveyor of junk mail. When’s the last time you got an actual letter from Aunt Mabel? I miss those. What I won’t miss are the catalogs, flyers, credit card offers and magazines that I never asked for and do not want. With the holidays coming up, it will only get worse.
According to rainforestmaker.org, more than 4 million tons, or at least 62 billion pieces of junk mail are printed yearly. And 40 percent of that junk never even gets opened. Imagine how much more rain forest we’d have right now if each one of us stood up and said no to all this crap?
Well, you can do that. And it only takes a few minutes. Please visit this website and opt OUT of all this stuff today! It won’t cost you a dime. https://www.dmachoice.org/
And while you’re at it, opt out of getting phone books, too! Who uses phone books anymore anyway? https://www.yellowpagesoptout.com/
For countries other that the United states, if you have similar websites, please print the links in the comment section below. And if your country does not provide you with the ability to do this, ask them why not!
I may not be the Lorax, but I think I can speak for the trees on this one. Thank you.
The View from a Drawbridge 
I may have to have my wife check this out…
It’s really easy, and free. Just takes a minute or two.
nothing is easy for me
I will have to check to see if Canada has something like this! Especially the phone books. I don’t get much junk mail here. In fact I can’t remember the last time I got junk mail. So I guess that’s good. But I have enough phone books to stuff a dumpster!
I’m amazed anyone bothers making phone books anymore. But they ARE recyclable, for what it’s worth. If you do find a link for Canada, please post it here.
If I do find one I will post it here. I do recycle them, but there are lots of them! Nowadays too many!
The link for the opt out for Yellow pages Canada is here:
http://delivery.ypg.com/en/US/Home/Index/
In my small town the yellow pages and white pages are combined. I believe in this site you can opt out of both yellow and white if you live in a bigger city as you need to include your zip. As it gives you an option of which directory to opt out from.
Thanks so much Jackie!
Thanks so much Jackie!