I’ve been updating my stack of receipts from the Post Office Form 1500 applications I’ve filed. Over 25 companies are now banned from sending me mail. 🙂 Unfortunately the idiots at the local Post Office don’t believe that anyone would not want that stuff, so I am still getting the Advo Shopwise garbage. I just …
I have a PO Box at the post office downtown. I originally got this box because I knew I would be moving several times in a relatively short amount of time. I’ve had the box for over a year now, and get all of my bills, magazines, and correspondence there. Of course, there is also …
I moved from Blacksburg to the bustling metropolis of Fairfax County in northern Virginia. The apartment I am living in has locks on the mailboxes so I did not get a post office box this time. Big mistake! The first week after moving in, I received four pieces of junk mail. The next week six …
I haven’t received any junk mail from Kroger’s lately. I’m fairly certain that they haven’t sent me anything in 1999! In fact the only junk mail I get regularly are from companies that buy my name from APCC, the power protection people. APCC has not responded to my email requests that they not sell my …
Late in 1997 I wrote a letter to my town’s Postmaster. I requested that they declare my residential mailbox vacant. After a week or so, no more mail. 🙂 What I had done before that was to fill out one of those Hold Mail forms, as if I was going on vacation. And I left …
I have written several letters to companies asking to be removed from their mailing lists. I also ask them to let me know how they received my name and address. So far I have only received one response. That was from a local non-profit agency. But of course, they said that they did not know …
