We both recently heard about a service for reducing the amount of mail we receive on Minnesota Public Radio. Catalog Choice lets you opt out of receiving catalog's you no longer wish to receive. I love LL Bean and even occasionally love looking at their catalogs, but I really do not love getting their catalogs every other day! I am much more likely to look on-line when I'm in a buying mood than to hunt down a catalog. All of those catalogs almost always go immediately into recycling at our house. I bet that LL Bean prefers to not send me those expensive catalogs if I'm just going to recycle them! It seems to me that stopping these catalogs for cluttering up my recycle bin will save a ton of gas, paper and ink. If you decide to check out Catalog Choice, have your stack of unwanted catalogs handy as they will ask you for numbers from the catalogs.
Neil and I are making the shift from snail mail to electronic communication. You will not see many things from us in your "snail" mailbox in the future. We will continue to send out our "handy hints" and our monthly contest via email. (We are also moving away from print advertising to on-line forms.) If you do not wish to receive these emails (I can hardly imagine it!) please let us know. If you don't want it, we don't want to send it!
We would love to hear and pass on your ideas for stopping snail mail. Please post your ideas in the comments section.
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