Below we dig a little deeper into a couple of approaches you can take to stop junk mail USPS employees aren’t at all shy about sharing with the general public as well as a couple of tips and tricks you might not have heard about before. By the time you are done with this quick guide you’ll be able to eliminate 90% or more of all the junk mail you’ve been getting, cleaning up and decluttering your mailbox almost overnight. Let’s dive right in! Thankfully though, there are more things you can do today to opt out of junk mail – with or without the help of the USPS. That’s enough paper to eliminate 1.5 trees annually (and 100 million trees in the US alone every year) – causing more greenhouse gases than nearly 4 million cars along the way. Worse, the average American gets 848 pieces of junk mail every year, almost 3 pieces of junk mail every day. Craziness. On top of that, the New York University School of Law recently published research highlighting the fact that 5.6 million tons of junk mail ends up in US landfills every year, that 44% of all junk mail is tossed without ever being opened, and that only about half of all junk mail gets reused or recycled after it is disposed of.
That research says that we’ll spend almost the same amount of time dealing with junk mail that woman will spend pregnant with the child.
Unfortunately, having to deal with junk mail is a cold reality of our modern world. Each and every year, hundreds of millions of pieces of mail are sent through the USPS unsolicited by their recipients – almost all of it completely unwanted, too. In fact, according to researchers at (one of the largest nonprofit recycling operations in the United States) the average person in the US is going to spend eight months of their life just sorting and disposing of junk mail. There’s nothing worse than opening up your mailbox to find it overstuffed with nothing but junk mail – credit card offers, insurance discounts eat, catalogs from companies you have never heard of and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Yet, you never read through it and more often than not, ends up in a trace can (at worst) or your recycling bin (at best.) Dealing with junk mail is more than just about frustration because of our regard to it being spam, it causes tons of paper going to waste (and therefore millions of trees being cut down for no good reason.) Junk mail makes up over 80% of the mail you receive.
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