No stopping Junk Mail?

[YurtGirl]

We recently, finally, got a box at the Mtn. View post office. It only took three years... But we don't have much room for actual mail in the box, because every time we open it, it's stuffed to the gills with bulky, obnoxious, and completely unwanted junk mail. Flyers, coupon books, and the Kama'aina Weekly Shopper or something like that. This stuff all goes STRAIGHT to the small rubbish bins they have there, because otherwise we'd have it coming out of our home, vehicle and ears as well as our P.O.Box!

I asked the wonderfully nice ladies that work there if I could request not to have them put in my box, and they said there was no way to do that; that advertisers paid them to put them in each and every box and other mailers just come in and get every pobox number, and if something is addressed to a box number, junk mail or no, then they have to put it in the box. Makes a little bit of sense if it's addressed to box, but can't we say it has to have a person's name on it? Not 'box holder'? What a sickening waste of resources - and a waste of time and energy, both on the postal workers and box holders. Anyone had any success in dealing with this?

[Obie]

Go to dmachoice.org and register. I no longer receive any junkmail.

[YurtGirl]

Kama'aina Shopper isn't on there... Who runs that?
Thanks for the tip, Obie!!! Kind of involved... do you have to do each and every one singly?

[KeaauRich]

It's not a waste of time for the postal workers and the post office, since they're getting paid (through postage) to deliver it. It's a waste for the sender, who's paying to send ads to a garbage can

[EightFingers]

I just send the junk back in their postage-paid envelope. If it doesn't have a postage-paid envelope, I put it in another advertiser's envelope.

[james weatherford]

This site also...

http://www.ecocycle.org/junkmail/index.cfm

Who pays?
The County pays to landfill lots of junk mail!

[YurtGirl]

It's a waste to us all, because 90% of it goes to our limited landfill space and it's all our common resources used to make it. But it is also a waste for the postal workers who could be doing better things with their time (and still get paid for something a bit more meaningful).

I think the Kamaaina and other box inserts often don't pay 'postage', exactly. They drop off a bulk bundle of printed materials and just pay the post office to disperse it from their floor. Not what I'd consider postage since it's not using the postal service to send things from their place to each of our boxes. More like bribe money to get them to hand out their garbage.

Eight Fingers, you sound like a good Monkey Wrencher, gumming up the works in a randomly chaotic way. I like it. But I don't think that would stop the junk from coming, which is ultimately what I want.

That earlier site mentioned didn't look like it would do much. They have a specific list of a bunch of companies that spam and you can specifically list ones to stop. But We're spammed by local companies that aren't on that list.

[Obie]

I filled out this form and mailed it in.It stopped all of my junk mail.I didn't have to pick and chose which ones I wanted stopped.

https://www.dmachoice.org/dma/static/pdf...n_form.pdf

We may still get the Kamaaina Shopper.My wife likes receiving the local shopping ads and discount coupons.