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Friday Tee/Tote Junk Mail Horror Story Winner on Saturday

Why am I posting Friday winners on Saturday?  C'mon, what self-respecting greenie does anything on time?

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GreenDimer Jack Straw wrote:

When we moved into our new apartment, we noticed over the first couple of weeks in June that there was mail coming to 12 (yes a dozen!) different individuals.  I thought...don't you people forward your mail?

Now, just over three months after signing up for the service, the only mail in our box is addressed to my girlfriend and I.  Equally as important, we can go a two weeks without checking the box and there is still less mail in it than one day's worth when we first moved in.  Its sad that how much crap we were discarding.

People...this service works.

Thanks Jack.  -Sanjiv

3 Anti – Junk Mail T-Shirt Winners This Friday!

JUNK MAIL HORROR STORY

Everyone in my apartment complex leaves their phone book, but Spencer takes it to a new level…

When I got married about a year and a half ago we moved into our own place, which was in a city neither of us have ever lived. We decided to get a local telephone book so we could find new stores and restaurants, etc. One day while at a supermarket we picked up a free phone book. Then the horror started... Within a week we had one phone book in our apartment mailbox, one on our doorstep, and one in our P.O. Box! And you think that's bad??? A few days after that we had 3 more phone books from a different company! So we ended up with 7 phone books! What to do with them? RECYCLE!

P.S. Thanks Green Dimes for also getting rid of those awful Carol Wright Gift catalogs!

Posted by Spencer G.

ECO TIP

Rachel actually wrote five tips, and this was my favorite (I’m a sucker for dogs)…

1. Donate old newspapers to your local animal shelter.  They can be used to line kennels.

HOME STATE ISSUE

Glad you spoke out Renee…

Here in Florida, we are being over run with contractors and a state government that just seems to cater to them. It is insane and makes me want to puke everytime I drive by a site where they are burning our beautiful Florida forest canopy. On top of this, we have been hit extrememly hard by hurricanes over the past few years that seem to be caused by global warming. When will we know that enough is enough and burning such beautiful things is hurting all of us? Please protect our canopy, Florida!

Happily a recycler and GreenDimes subscriber –

Posted by Renee in Orlando :)

Junk Mail Horror Story Winner:

We loved this one in the office:

“Well, I don't know if this is necessarily junk mail a "horror" story, but it is kind of sad and makes me laugh at the same time.

When I'm forced to sign up for things online that require a date of birth, I usually just type anything in.  Apparently I typed in a birth year of around 1900 one time a few years ago because on some list somewhere I'm over 100 years old (I'm actually only 29!). 

Then the senior demographic junk mail started.  I was getting junk mail from hearing aid companies, funeral homes, life insurance companies, cemeteries, and health insurance companies targeting those who are on medicare.  I even received an AARP card in the mail!”

-posted by Andrea

Priceless.   Now don’t expect to look as cool in it as Justin in the pic above (he is our Creative Director, after all) but know now you can choose between tee shirt colors black or white.

Junk Mail, begone!

Sanjiv

Junk Mail Horror Story T-Shirt Winner Announced

This came from one our Myspace GreenDimers:

“My junk mail horror story... besides the inundation of catalogs from Pottery Barn (come on... do I really need 3 Pottery Barn, 2 Pottery Barn Kids, and 2 Pottery Barn Clearance catalogs PER MONTH?!!!) I have two semi-horrific junkmail stories. The first... I used to recieve (before Green Dimes of course!) about 10-15 fliers and mailers addressed to "Pool Owner", the kicker is we don't have a pool. The second even more horrifying junk mail story till occurs despite numerous phone calls to Scholastic... I teach 4th grade and receive approximately 15 Scholastic Book Order Catalogs PER MONTH at my school. They are all the same!!!! The final straw was a little PR note on teh back of lasts month's catalog, which I recieved 4 of by the way, that said they "were concerned about the environment and were making a concious effort to reduce waste and eliminate duplicate catalogs sent to teachers". Come on!!!! All of these are addressed to the same person at the same school. They really need to do something about their database and mailing systems. It infuriates me!”

Posted by Michaela on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 12:42 AM.

I love the energy.  Keep ‘em coming!

Sanjiv