Minimize your snail mail!

I often think of all the junk mail we get. One gets it in email as well as in the mailbox. The mailbox is just annoying to me, because I throw 90% of what comes into that box into the garbage can! It's nice to know I'm not alone.

I recently read an article that was published in the Dec 15, 2008 edition of Time magazine. (vl124, i24, p58). In this article the writer, Jeremy Caplan, points out statistics about the multitudes of catalogs, credit card offers, and other direct mail pieces that clog up our mailboxes. Did you know that the average American gets 848 lbs of junk mail a year? That's a lot of paper that I don't need to put into my garbage!!

As an alternative, Mr Caplan describes some websites and services that help consumers to minimize by allowing you to opt-out of many of these offers! Some charge, some are free.

So - minimize your unnecessary mail / paper and avoid lots of shredding to save yourself from identity theft all at the same time!