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Getting Off Junk Mail List’s
March 11, 2007 |
If your house is any thing like mine, I’ll bet you are getting bombarded with credit card applications and offers for no interest for 3-6 months or sometimes even longer periods of time…. everyone wants you to have their card! We were getting so many I was really beginning to feel super bad for the trees! sometimes a half dozen a week!Â
All in all I never minded these, would just toss them out. In todays times I really started thinking about how easy it would be for a thief to get a hold of it and fill out fake info and then start using the card!
The following information is from the PrivacyRights.org website;
When you purchase a product or service and give the company your name and address, the chances are you are being added to one or more mailing lists used for direct marketing. This is true when you buy a car or a house, use a shopping card, sign up for a credit card, subscribe to a magazine, buy something from a catalog, give money to a charity, or fill out a product registration form.
Your name, address, and other contact information, as well as the type of product or service, is entered into a computer data base. The business that collected the information will use it to solicit more business from you. They might also rent their list to other businesses so they can send you advertisements. Lists are valuable, and renting lists is big business.
Check out the following link, it will tell you how to get off the mailing lists for credit card offers and all kinds of direct mail marketing.
I was able to remove my information from the offers for credit cards over the phone, it took just a few minutes.
Getting Off Junk Mail List’s-PrivacyRights.org
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