Mail Equivalent of Do Not Call List - Get Green!

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edignan Guru Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Borrego Springs Posts: 2636 Good Answers: 62	Mail Equivalent of Do Not Call List - Get Green! 05/04/2009 9:56 AM
	Cleaning out the junk mail ran into this handy tidbit on the back, back page of yet another offer: Following information is for U.S. companies, some equivalent may be available in your locale; verbatim PRESCREEN & OPT-OUT NOTICE This "prescreened" offer of credit is based on information in your credit report indicating that you meet certain criteria. This offer is not guaranteed if you do not meet our criteria. If you do not want to receive prescreened offers of credit for this and other companies, call the consumer reporting agencies toll free, 1-800-5-OPT-OUT (1-800-567-8688); or write them individually at Experian Target Marketing P.O. Box 919 701 Experian Parkway B2 Allen, TX 75013 Equifax Options P.O. Box 740123 Atlanta, GA 30374-0123 Trans Union Corporation Attn: Marketing Opt Out P.O. Box 505 Woodlyn, PA 19094-0505 __________________ "If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
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DVader1000 Guru Join Date: May 2007 Location: Anywhere Emperor Palpatine assigns me Posts: 2774 Good Answers: 101	#1 Re: Mail equivalent of Do Not Call List - Get Green! 05/04/2009 12:02 PM
	Don't bother replying to them . It's just another form of spam . Reply to them, and get prepared to be bombarded with endless junk mail from all their clients . __________________ If only you knew the power of the Dark Side of the Force
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ozzb Guru Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Rosedale, Maryland USA Posts: 5197 Good Answers: 266	#2 Re: Mail equivalent of Do Not Call List - Get Green! 05/04/2009 12:58 PM
	Get a stamp that says return to sender and send them back. __________________ Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving in a pretty, pristine body but rather to come sliding in sideways, all used up and exclaiming, "Wow, what a ride!"
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agua_doc Guru Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Brecksville, OH Posts: 1621 Good Answers: 18	#6 In reply to #2 Re: Mail equivalent of Do Not Call List - Get Green! 05/05/2009 8:53 PM
	Or just send the junk mail pre-paid pre-addressed return envelope back empty. __________________ "Consensus Science got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" : Rephrase of Will Rogers Comment
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babybear Guru Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: USA/Europe Posts: 4547 Good Answers: 68	#3 Re: Mail Equivalent of Do Not Call List - Get Green! 05/05/2009 2:09 AM
	Hello ed, I am not exactly sure what you are trying to say as I am on a bad day and even after reading it for ten times, I still do not know what you mean for sure. Just to say, that if you are referring to an 'opt out' scheme, the UK Post Office and telephone has a similar thing. It stops any advertising mail or, in the case of the telephone, any 'cold calling'. Although I am a private individual I have been snowed under with mail shots in the past. And people getting my name from the computer were mostly to blame. I think it should be illegal to buy and sell anyones details, but in the UK it is an everyday occurrence. Even local authorities do it and it makes me so mad! Take care.......................... __________________ Take it easy, bb. >"HEAR & you FORGET<>SEE & you REMEMBER<>DO & you UNDERSTAND"<=$=\|O\|=$=>"Common Sense is Genius dressed in its Working Clothes"<>[Ralph Waldo Emerson]
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edignan Guru Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Borrego Springs Posts: 2636 Good Answers: 62	#4 In reply to #3 Re: Mail Equivalent of Do Not Call List - Get Green! 05/05/2009 9:08 AM
	Credit card companies pull their targets (people who match their criteria) directly from the credit reporting databases. In the US, these are the credit reporting agencies departments to "opt out" of these solicitations. Just trying to trim your junk mail load a bit. __________________ "If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"
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bwire Guru Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Upper Mid-west USA Posts: 7498 Good Answers: 97	#5 In reply to #4 Re: Mail Equivalent of Do Not Call List - Get Green! 05/05/2009 1:50 PM
	GA, I thought you clearly stated the info, thanks. __________________ If death came with a warning there would be a whole lot less of it.
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bwire Guru Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Upper Mid-west USA Posts: 7498 Good Answers: 97	#7 In reply to #4 Re: Mail Equivalent of Do Not Call List - Get Green! 05/06/2009 1:12 AM
	If ya think about the cost of the pre-paid postage of their envelopes. Ya may be can see why I open all of them and stack the letters for two weeks then I stuff ones envelope with another's junk and send it back __________________ If death came with a warning there would be a whole lot less of it.
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