Perhaps you don’t even look at the junk mail any more. It goes directly to the trash. However, there may be some personal information in that junk mail that you might not want to fall into the wrong hands. If your information has been sold to a marketing company for credit cards, for example, there may be information that makes it easy for you to apply for that credit card. It may make it easy to steal your credit card identity too.

There are ways to fight back against this junk mail - some of which comes whether you are dead or alive:

“Unsolicited offers for credit cards, loans, insurance, vacation packages and more seem to be a part of life — and death. Many people report that offers keep arriving long after a loved one has moved on to a place where Visa is not accepted.

But there are ways to curb the offers — for both the living and dead — whether they come by e-mail, regular mail or telephone.”

link: Tired of all that junk mail? Do something about it

You would think that all the snail junk mail is a burden on the mail carrier. It must be disheartening to think that so much heavy junk mail is delivered, only to be discarded moments later. Unfortunately, very little support can be expected from the postal service in stemming the constant flood of junk mail. The reason for the lack is support from the mail service is very simple. It is revenue.

Catherine Forsythe

[tags]junk mail, opting out, security, marketing, credit cards, identity theft, postal service, privacy, revenue[/tags]