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Ok, seriously… the junk mail companies need to get on the ball!  I don’t know about you, but I am sick to death of junk in my mailbox!  Most of my bills are paid online, I get sale notices online, yet the credit card and life insurance companies are determined to fill my mail box.  Why is that?

Did You Know:

The Direct Marketing Association, a trade group of 3,600 direct marketers and mail order companies, reports that marketers will spend nearly $56 billion on direct mail and catalogs in 2007, which will generate an estimated $700 billion in sales. That translates into an average of 26 pieces of mail a week for each household, according to the United States Postal Service’s Household Diary of 2006.

Twenty-six pieces of junk mail a week per household!!  That is 4.33 pieces of junk mail on each of the 6 days the mail runs!  I believe it!  I am sure I get at least 4.33 pieces of junk a day.  What about you?

Look what that translates to:

According to the WildWest Institute, an estimated 100 million trees are destroyed each year to produce 4.5 million tons of junk mail, with 44 percent of that thrown away unopened.

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Don’t know about you, but to me this is WELL WORTH it if it helps me make the world better for my kids.

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Statistics are quoted from a New York Times Article.