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?

[goawayplease.livejournal.com]

I hate that.

I got put on an amazing list at one point -- Hobby Farmer magazine was sending me subscription info! I found out that it was all HomeDepot, who were selling my address to the highest bidder. You might take a look at the companies you shop with who have your credit card info or address, especially the big box stores. It takes a while to get off the lists, but you can usually block the random stuff pretty quickly if you do a little research and digging. There are also a few companies that stop your junk mail for you...