I have a strange obsession with getting the mail. I love getting letters, magazines, cards, etc, but there is no bigger disappointment than a mailbox full of junk. What a waste of paper, and my time. There is an online service called Green Dimes that promises to rid your mailbox of these annoying offers. There are 3 levels of subscription, the basic services being free, premium services costing a one time $20 fee, and the “bundle” which costs a one time $36 fee. The paid services offer more perks such as monthly monitoring of your name on junk mail lists, 24/7 customer service (which I’m not sure is a huge selling point for me, why would I need to contact my junkmail reducing provider at 3am?), having 5 trees planted for you and unlimited household names. When you sign up at any level, Green Dimes will send you a dollar, plant a tree for you, or send you a copy of an environmental magazine. I’m not sure that I am ready to spring for a paid subscription, but I am definitely going to check out the free services to see how much of a difference it makes. I’ll let you know how Green Dimes works out for me, and if you join, please share your experience with me.
Tags: green, Green Dimes, junk mail, junkmail, less junk mail, living green, reducing junk mail
August 26, 2008 at 6:56 pm |
I happen to be one of the owners of MyJunkTree and as a new company I search the web to see if we are getting any visibility out there and I post on revealnt blogs.
We launched the company because we were tired of all the junk mail we were receiving and we personally did not want to bounce all over the web to contact all the different companies to stop it all. First and foremost we wanted to let people choose what they wanted to let come to their home knowing that some people really do like some of the coupons and catalogs. So our clients choose what they want stopped.
We also had to provide a service that is different than the other services out there, so here is what we offer:
1. We have a database of over 1300 catalogs that you can choose to stop.
2. We have over a 2000 charities/Non-Profits that you can stop solicitations from.
3. Stop the delivery of the national phone directories.
4. Stop the delivery of the weekly coupons.
5. Stop the general credit card offers as well as the ones from your own major bank.
6. Stop the miscellaneous junk mail from the data brokers.
7. You can register on the National Do Not Call Registry from the website.
8. You can order your no strings attached free annual credit report right from the website.
9. We plant trees with every new membership.
And, yes we are a paid service and yes you can do everything that we do for free, if you want to do all the research and spend the time contacting the companies yourself it can easily be done. We have just done all of the legwork for our clients and feel there is value in the service we provide.