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Catalog Choice - Reduce Unwanted Junk Mail

Ages ago, I ordered something from a catalog, knowing that I would regret it. I paid $11.95 to ship a $4.95 item and said to myself, ‘Just this once, and I’ll never order from them again.’ After that, the catalog onslaught began. Now I receive a catalog from this company about every two weeks.

When the catalogs first began arriving I recycled them, as if a mere peek at the shiny, plastic junk inside would instantly lead to madness. Eventually though, that mountain of mail did exactly what they hoped it would, and I started looking at them again. I found other irresistible reasons to pay exorbitant shipping costs. Every time I opened up my mailbox and found that catalog, I knew I needed to call them and cancel it. I wanted them to know enough was enough, that I wasn’t gonna take it anymore and to save a tree and stop already. But I never called them, and now I don’t have to! Catalog Choice will take care of that for me.

Launched today, Catalog Choice allows you to set up an account with your email address, enter in your primary mailing address, find the catalogs you receive and decline them. They will contact the senders and, poof! No more unsolicited catalogs in your mailbox. You can decline all of your unwanted catalogs at once, and let them do the dirty work of talking to the distributors. Save time, save trees, and prevent junk mail all at once.

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