filthy beast
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I have posted this on the one other forum that I follow and thought the more opinions the better.
For those of you that RV full time of take extended trips. How do you get rid of all the excess mail like catalogs and stuff. Of course we still need to get the bills and things but we get an exorbitant amount of catalogs and fliers. When we used to get a lot of credit card offers, we were able to write on them "offer denied" and "remove me from mailing list" and then send them back in their prepaid envelopes. Most of the catalogs we get no longer have prepaid order forms.
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LynnandCarol
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When we request our mail from our presidents club mail forwarding service, we request class-a mail only and the pitch the rest! we don't want to pay the mailing costs for stuff we will be pitching on arrival!
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skipnchar
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We never need to get the bills either. Everything is paid automatically for us and when we return home we pick up our mail and sort it. Keep things we want for our records and personal things and throw away all the credit card offers and other junk mail. While we're traveling we keep track of our bank accounts via Internet so we know what is being paid and how much. It helps that we use the identical same system when we're at home.
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Homer
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This isn't available to everyone, but Family Motor Coach club sorts the mail and only sends what you tell them to. Nothing that is not first class mail.
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Fizz
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We are lucky that we have a neighbor pick up all our mail. When we get home after five months we have a box full of crap. After we weed it out we usually find 4-5 important items the rest is garbage. Our most important mail is email. All companies now offer to go paperless.
In our seven years of Snowbirding we have never had the need to get mail forwarded to us, all crucial mail is email. Everything else can wait.
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We use MyRVMail and they automatically trash anything labeled pre-sort. We call for our mail once a week and ask what we have, when they identify something we do not want, we tell them to trash it. If they mention something that we are not sure what it is, we ask them to open it and tell us. from there, we decide what to do with it. This way we are never sent something we do not want.
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WyoTraveler
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When we full timed we used a regular private mail box. Our instructions were to throw away everything but first class mail. When we were in town and picked up mail only first class was in the box. When we were on the road only first class was forwarded to us. I think you will find once you go to a private box many of the senders of trash mail stop sending it because they are aware of what happens to their trash mail.
Once we forwarded our mail from a private mail box to our present home address it took about 2 years before we started getting lots of trash mail again.
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Jim Shoe
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I'm just spitballing here, but since the USPS is broke and since most folks just toss junk mail unopened, why not raise the cost of the shotgun mailing of junk mail above the cost of first class? Maybe even a surcharge for certain businesses that send out oversize stuff that's too big to go thru a shredder without tearing it into smaller pieces?
How about at least eliminating Saturday delivery? Six day service is a scheduling nightmare for USPS employees, and many large businesses that don't operate on weekends have to pay somebody to come to work to accept the Saturday delivery.
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Lady Fitzgerald
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Fizz wrote:...All companies now offer to go paperless...
Most, not all (pity they don't all do it).
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sdianel
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I made up a short standard "take me off your mailing list" letter and print out several copies. When I get catalogs I cut my address label off the back including their customer number, etc, tape it to the letter and mail it to them. Works great. I do this once a year to stop the new ones. The "return to sender" also works but not for catalogs or magazines. There is a website called www.dmachoice.org where you can opt out of direct mailings. The service is free.
All our bills are sent electronically and most are paid automatically. We cancelled all our magazine subscriptions. We get very little mail anymore.
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