Red dot campaign to reduce junk mail

While it won’t do anything in relation to unsolicited mail that is properly addressed to you (like credit card applications), following the advice from this website will lead to your mail carrier no longer leaving unaddressed advertising for you. The page includes a sign for your mailbox and a letter for your mail carrier. There is also a link to the the Canadian Marketing Association’s Do Not Contact Registry, which also aims to prevent unwanted telephone solicitation.

The total effect of doing these things won’t be huge, but it is a small step towards less waste and annoyance.

[Update: 30 Mar 2008] Another resource for spam-troubled Canadians: iOptOut.

Author: Milan

In the spring of 2005, I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in International Relations and a general focus in the area of environmental politics. In the fall of 2005, I began reading for an M.Phil in IR at Wadham College, Oxford. Outside school, I am very interested in photography, writing, and the outdoors. I am writing this blog to keep in touch with friends and family around the world, provide a more personal view of graduate student life in Oxford, and pass on some lessons I've learned here.

4 thoughts on “Red dot campaign to reduce junk mail”

  1. My roomates and I are all over that. We had to wait for our one roomate to leave for Africa, since he is a junk-mail addict. But the letter has been sent, the sign posted and so far so good. Poor Geoff though – he is going to come back and not know what to do with himself on a Saturday morning…..shame.

  2. In my experience, the dots don’t work at all.

    Mail carriers simply ignore them and continue to deliver unsolicited mail as before.

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