{"id":1873,"date":"2008-03-22T20:53:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T04:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/22\/how-to-stop-getting-so-much-junk-mail\/"},"modified":"2012-01-27T21:39:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T05:39:51","slug":"how-to-stop-getting-so-much-junk-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/22\/how-to-stop-getting-so-much-junk-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"How to stop getting so much junk mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how to get off junk mail lists<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fraudguides.com\/tips\/jan10.asp\">via<\/a>) and verified by my research<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stop &#8220;prescreened&#8221; offers. Companies check your credit with the big credit reporting agencies all the time. Stop these offers and all those pre-approved credit card offers etc&#8230; go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.OptOutPrescreen.com\">www.OptOutPrescreen.com<\/a> or call 1-888-567-8688.<\/li>\n<li>Get off telemarketers mailing lists with the federal Do Not Call list, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.DoNotCall.gov\">www.DoNotCall.gov<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tell the Direct Marketing Association you don&#8217;t want junk mail, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmachoice.org\/consumerassistance.php\">www.dmachoice.org\/consumerassistance.php<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Register at <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogchoice.org\">catalogchoice.org<\/a> and decline individual catalogs that you already receive.<\/li>\n<li>Sign up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proquo.com\/\">proquo.com<\/a> and get off a bunch of junk mail lists.<\/li>\n<li>For all those catalogs you get because you bought something from them 10 years ago, call them or find them online and ask to be removed from their list.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.valassis.com\/1024\/Contact\/consumersupport.aspx\">Get off the Redplum \/ Valassis faux-newspaper mailing list<\/a> with ads from Safeway, Luckys etc<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jwz.livejournal.com\/1308892.html\">Lots more tidbits<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how to get off junk mail lists (via) and verified by my research Stop &#8220;prescreened&#8221; offers. Companies check your credit with the big credit reporting agencies all the time. Stop these offers and all those pre-approved credit card offers etc&#8230; go to www.OptOutPrescreen.com or call 1-888-567-8688. Get off telemarketers mailing lists with the federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-not-call","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}