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Stop unwanted catalogs. Save the environment.

by biverson | November 26, 2007 at 03:17 pm

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I have reduced junk mail by opting out of junk mail. All of a sudden this holiday season, I began to get about five catalogs per day. Thanks to NPR and Catalog Choice I am opting out of catalog delivery now. Since the companies spend about .80 on each catalog, they should be happy to stop sending them. My post office worker will be happy, too.

I don't know about you, but I'm battening down the buying hatches because my internal financial barometer is starting to feel like it did in the mid 70's when the interest rate on our home mortgage was 11.75% (no, young readers, that is NOT a misprint.) Anyway, if you want to get fewer catalogs, listen and click.

The Greening of the Holiday Catalog

All Things Considered, November 23, 2007 · A free online service that helps people select which catalogs they want to receive and how often. Melissa Block talks with David Mizejewski of the National Wildlife Federation, one of the groups enlisted in the project, www.catalogchoice.org.