{"id":32,"date":"2010-07-14T21:22:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T21:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.junkmailed.com\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2010-07-14T23:43:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T23:43:03","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.junkmailed.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Junk Mailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Direct mail has become an accepted fact of life for most. Many people simply assume that receiving five times as much junk mail as regular mail is normal. It doesn&#8217;t have to be this way.<\/p>\n<p>Fed up with the amount of direct mail I was getting, I decided to try and do something about it. Over a four year period, I meticulously responded to every piece of direct mail I got to try and stop it. I learned about what works and what doesn&#8217;t work. I created this site to share the practical research I have done over the last three years into ways to stop direct mail, and to foster discussion on better solutions to the direct mail problem &#8211; personal, legal, and political. With the recent success of the national do-not-call list, it is my hope that a permanent and effective solution can soon be created for direct mail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Purpose:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Direct mail is a huge problem in the United States. It wastes precious resources, clogs our mailboxes, and wastes our time (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newdream.org\/Junkmail\/facts.php\">the facts<\/a>). Some forms of direct mail use deceptive marketing practices to prey on naive and unsuspecting individuals.<\/p>\n<p>My goal is to promote the development of a permanent solution to the direct mail problem: to give consumers the legal right to refuse any and all unsolicited mail; to promote legislative solutions and legal precedents to solve the direct mail problem. I hope to work to organize people and efforts to achieve this goal. Until such a solution exists, my goal is to provide individuals with as much information as possible to combat direct mail to the greatest degree possible.<\/p>\n<p>My goal is not to put an end to direct mail altogether. As a business owner, I know that responsibly used direct mail can be a powerful marketing tool. What I desire is a system that allows people to opt-out of direct mail if they don&#8217;t want to receive it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Direct mail has become an accepted fact of life for most. Many people simply assume that receiving five times as much junk mail as regular mail is normal. It doesn&#8217;t have to be this way. Fed up with the amount of direct mail I was getting, I decided to try and do something about it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.junkmailed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.junkmailed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.junkmailed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.junkmailed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.junkmailed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.junkmailed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"http:\/\/www.junkmailed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.junkmailed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}