http://donotmail.org/ http://donotmail.org/article.php?id=83 Help us get the rest of the 90% of Americans who want a Do Not Mail Registry to sign the petition. http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/281/t/5980/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=941 Sign up and help us take back our mailboxes. http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/281/t/5980/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=941 Can you speak for your business or nonprofit organization? If so, endorse our campaign today. http://donotmail.org/article.php?id=78 A recent blog about the pro-junk mail lobby and its front group Mail Moves America, a coalition of businesses that oppose efforts to create a legislated "Do Not Mail" list to protect citizens from being showered with unwanted junk mail, drew many comments. 2008-05-05 http://donotmail.org/article.php?id=77 Toilet paper and similar products are hardly our only paper woes. Another insidious paper use — and one that’s annoying instead of useful to boot — is junk mail. 2008-04-08 http://donotmail.org/article.php?id=74 Sure they fight the rain and snow and dark of night — but if all the mail carrier delivers is junk mail, some people are saying don’t bother. 2008-04-02 http://donotmail.org/article.php?id=76 The vast majority of American people disagree with the editorial, “No need for laws on junk mail” published on March 30th, 2008. A recent Zogby International poll concluded that 89% of people would support a tool similar to the Do Not Call registry to make it easy to opt out of unsolicited junk mail. 2008-04-02 http://donotmail.org/article.php?id=73 Instead of stepping forward with ideas on how to help solve the identity crisis issue—which is due in part to the junk mail industry’s handling of names and personal data—the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) and the businesses it regulates are wailing over the fact that states, fifteen of them, have started to enact their own laws. 2008-03-31 http://donotmail.org/article.php?id=72 Postal carriers' mailbags might be getting a little lighter, thanks to a group of environmentally aware students. Teacher Jim Duxbury and the Orrville High School earth science club directed an innovative campaign to target unwanted mail-order catalogs. 2008-03-26 http://donotmail.org/article.php?id=75 Murray Martin wonders: "Is this a real issue or is this an emotional discussion?" 2008-03-22 http://donotmail.org/article.php?id=68 Yesterday's Washington Post had a fascinating article by Lyndsey Layton about how the U.S. Postal Service is teaming up with the junk mail lobby to stamp out (heh heh) efforts to create state or national "Do Not Mail" lists that would allow people to opt out of receiving commercial solicitations. 2008-03-20 http://donotmail.org/article.php?id=65 Chris Pearson, a state legislator in Vermont, had a sense that the people were with him when he proposed a bill last November to allow residents to block junk mail. 2008-03-19 http://donotmail.org/article.php?id=66 June will mark the fifth anniversary of the start of the National Do Not Call Registry. Since that time, millions of Americans have signed up to have their telephone numbers excluded from telemarketing lists. 2008-03-19 http://donotmail.org/article.php?id=67 Going to the post office would be more enjoyable -- I like the socializing -- if there was something in our mailbox other than bills. But I always find myself irked by junk mail -- my own and that addressed to deceased family members. 2008-03-19 http://donotmail.org/article.php?id=71 There are ways to filter your spam e-mail, but what about all that junk mail you get via snail mail? Besides being annoying, it's also bad for the environment. 2008-03-18