Combatting Catalogue Spam

[annuin]

I happened on this link today, as I wandered from various Etsy pages to personal artist blogs. And sometimes you find interesting things on such quests. I found this helpful link:

http://www.catalogchoice.org/

In the past few months that we've lived here, the amount of unsolicited catalogues we've started receiving has grown to a ridiculous number, at times it's at least one a day. A lot of it seems to be kids toys and clothing catalogues, and it makes me wonder where they've been getting my details from.

Anyway, the above mentioned link is a place to unsubscribe from catalogues. They pass on requests to the merchants to stop catalogues being delivered. It takes about 10 weeks to be removed though, which is a tad unfortunate, though considering how hard it is to even be removed from email mailing lists sometimes it's not that strange.

It'll be nice to get less stuff in the mailbox that goes straight into the (recycling) bin.

Now if only I could find a way to make being on the state and national Do Not Call lists work better... the telemarketers seem to be increasing again, irregardless of being on said lists. Extremely vexing indeed!

Comments

[dreamalynn.livejournal.com]

Have you renewed yourself on the Do Not Call lists?

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Not yet, but we only put ourselves on there in May, after we moved to this new place (new phone numbers). I'll get Prez to renew us on them again, hopefully it'll help a bit.

[dreamalynn.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, I know the initial registries were expiring and there was some controversy about whether or not numbers were released. Can't hurt, that's for sure!

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

We were on both lists (state/national) for years living in our old place, and it was quite effective indeed. So the fact that it hasn't been as effective now, or at least seems to be decreasing in effectiveness in the past months, has made me wonder.