The first email was sent (July 3rd, 2025) by someone called "Coconut." The person who replied was "Hazel Koehler," followed by someone known as "OldCoder," and then "Jacob Hall."
The nonsense continues between "OldCoder" and "Hazel Koehler." Eventually, "Insert5StarName" joins in and seems just as put off by all of this as I am, leading them to ask not to be included.
Despite that, the back-and-forth between "OldCoder" and "Hazel Koehler" continues (July 7th, 2025).
Also, this one will opt out of catalogs that come in the mail, but you have to enter the information for catalogs you receive. It won’t stop them from coming unless they already come.
I didn’t dig deep into this, I didn’t like the idea of giving all that information to another website, but it looks like it’s run by the “the story of stuff” project & they used to be legit, so they’re probably not trying to get our info to sell it later. But I haven’t looked at what they’ve been up to in more than a decade so don’t just trust me on this.
For individual catalogs so you don’t have to contact them yourself:
E-COM: The time the USPS spent $40M subsidizing junk (e)mail
https://buttondown.com/blog/the-e-com-story
#HackerNews #E-COM #USPS #JunkMail #$40M #Subsidy #ECommerce
DMA choice! I was close lol
dmachoice.org
It’s $6 so yay! It lasts 10 years, and it’s possible I didn’t do it before because I moved a lot because I was homeless. But yeah, I’m on that today.
I might miss out on some 0% credit card offers, but I don’t need more credit cards.
If you hate #junkmail and are in the UK, or if you have a peculiar interest in the history of junk mail, I have finally relaunched my anti-junk mail website!
Bought a letterbox sign at Bunnings.
Cashier asks if I would like to have the receipt.
Me: yes please. In case I still get junk mail because then it's broken so I will need to return it. 😉 😁
Got a weird look.
Been misunderstood worldwide since ages ago 😆
Called back again in the morning, first person I reached put me on hold for many minutes, then I got transferred to a second person who claimed to have made the necessary change so I would stop receiving junk-mail; we'll see if it works.
The whole call took 17 minutes. If they had a f*cking unsubscribe form on their web site I could have accomplished this in less than a minute.
#CitizensBank #junkMail
Just tried to get #CitizensBank to stop sending me junk (paper, not e-) mail. Called the number for this listed in their privacy policy. Kept being asked by the automated system to enter my account number. I don't have one, I'm a _former_ customer. No instructions given for what to do if you don't have an account number. I just kept hitting 0 until it stopped asking, at which point it informed me they couldn't handle my call right now and I had to call back in the morning.
#junkMail
There must be an election coming. My lovely postie is delivering every day!
All I can say is thank goodness for this election!
I use old envelopes to write shopping lists and other notes on. But my supply has been dwindling because I don’t get many letters any more.
Week 1 of the campaign and I already have enough supply to last me several months.
Special delivery of a Virgin Wines junk mail. Seems like they have taken leave of their senses.
Slowly moving all email newsletters that drop into my inbox over to Feedbin... :pepe_cool:
Either that, or unsubscribing from them. :pepe_knife:
Today's #mail (or #post, if you're of a British persuasion...) included a seminar invitation/sales flyer addressed to one of the previous owners of our house.
We've only lived here for 20 years, now.
I admire their persistence, though it seems uneconomic.
#persistence #economic #uneconomic #ad #brochure #flyer #JunkMail
Good morning. ☕☕☕
6 February 2025
I regularly donate to a few select charities and causes. As a result, I'm inundated with junk mail requests for donations. Most of these go directly into my shredder since I don't respond to mail requests. The few causes that I support are ones I either sought out or stumbled across. Interestingly, some donation requests come with money, so now they're sending me money. I have a dollar bill and a small collection of nickels that certain organizations have sent me. Perhaps they do this so I have to open the envelope and remove the nickels before shredding it. I really, really hate junk mail.
"Christmas cards ... are technically only junk mail from people you know." - Patricia Marx
"Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life." - Bernard Williams
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #morning #sunset #inverted #junkmail
I got one of those unsolicited credit card offers in the mail. There is an opt-out phone number that supposedly stops these offers for 5 years from all 3 credit reporting companies. The recording gives some generic company name. #credit #creditcards #experian
But it wants me to provide my social security number.
I feel uncomfortable providing my #SSN to an automated line
Has anyone used this opt-out method? Is this legitimate? #IDtheft #junkmail #ConsumerProtection
@pomegranate_stew @pattykimura @ProPublica
How To Stop Junk Mail
https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-stop-junk-mail
Steps for Reducing Junk Mail
https://ecocycle.org/eco-living/refuse-and-reduce/stop-junk-mail/steps-for-reducing-junk-mail/
I got inspired to make my own #junkjournal - using an old #bulletjournal full of #todo list I NEVER DID! I heard about this trend on #tiktok and it’s sort of like #scrapbooking but you use trash, #junkmail, found stuff, and all the useless piles of handbills and stickers that I come home with! Doesn’t have to be pretty cause it’s all just garbage anyway! I also like how it makes you inspect all your trash to see if there is an element you might wanna use.
