The only greater annoyance than junk email is junk postal mail. Not only does it clog your mailbox, but it wastes an awful lot of paper. Luckily, you can cut down on this junk. Here are a few tips.

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As a serious environmentalist, the mere existence of junkmail—the non-electric kind—hurts me. It causes a knot in my stomach when I open my mailbox, only to take 90 percent of the contents and dump ...

Letter-writing? A thing of the past, some say. But I still get excited when I open my mailbox and find the Amazon package I ordered yesterday and the occasional postcard from a traveling friend. What ...

Many people love to hate junk mail – and they have lots of different ways of quantifying their disgust: New York University says 5.6 million tons of junk mail end up in American landfills every year.

Is your letterbox breathing a sigh of relief? The elections are over and so too one hopes is the daily deluge of candidate flyers. It’s good to know who is running and what they pledge to do, but ...

Technology is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it allows for wonderful means of communication—free voice and video calls, no-cost text messaging, and the ability to share your life with ...

Soon thereafter, I began using Catalog Choice assiduously at home. I also refreshed my subscription to the Direct Mail Association’s Mail Preference Service. I wrote to ValPak to plead for a reprieve ...