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Reduce Junk Mail and Telemarketing |
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Junk Mail
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- Creates four million tons of preventable waste each year
- Fills three percent of America's landfills and costs taxpayers $320 million in disposal fees annually
- Destroys 62 million trees a year
- Creates 28 billion gallons of waste water per year
- Forty-four percent of all junk mail is trashed before being opened
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How to Reduce Junk Mail:
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- Ask to be put on a "do not mail" list. Write or call companies that send you unwanted mail
- When you provide personal information to a company, specify that you do not want your information shared
- On any form that you provide personal information, write "Please do not sell my name and address"
- Contact the following three agencies to reduce the amount of pre-approved credit card offers or to report consumer fraud you receive
- Credit Bureau
Trans Bureau
P.O. Box 390
Springfield, PA 19064
- Fraud Victim Assistance Division
P.O. Box 6790
Fullerton, CA 92834
(800) 888-4213
- Request Credit Report
(800) 888-4213
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Reduce Telemarketer Calls and Electronic Junk Mail by:
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- Register online at www.donotcall.gov or
call toll free, 1-888-382-1222 from the number you wish to register
- Filing a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission
- Call: 1-877-FCT-HELP
- or write to:
Federal Trade Commission
CRC-240
Washington, D.C. 20580
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