Comments on: Online Coupons vs Junk Mail – A No Brainer

By: Trisha FB

Trisha FB — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:58:01 +0000

Annoying unsolicited mails are really annoying. However, they are equally annoying as deals being propagated by irresponsible online stores that use unethical approcahes such as spamming our inboxes.

Here’s how to deal with them: spend a few minutes scanning mails, both from the physical mailbox and in your inbox. Pick those that make sense. Segregate them from the useless. In the case of emails, have those useful starred so you can go back at them when it’s time to use them. For the rest, get ready to shred, or mark them spam. I had mails that I even labeled “return to sender”. It changed the situation.

By: Tom - Trade Show Displays

Tom - Trade Show Displays — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:52:06 +0000

I heard that recently the post office has been having some financial difficulties, and it’s understandable because they have so many locations and the amount of deliveries continues to decrease. With the invention of the internet, regular post office mail is becoming increasingly less popular…

I like your save a tree theory very much

By: Johnny Coupon

Johnny Coupon — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:32:15 +0000

Please ask all of the businesses in your neighborhood you know to go to our web site and put their free coupon there. Then contact us and we’ll send them all nice window signs so their customers will know they are on line at our web site.
I’ve been selling direct mail advertising for 20+ years. First srated with Val Pak and then began my own company Coupon Depot about 17 years ago. Although I am in the business of filling up the traditional mailbox with coupons from local business (mind you, because it still works) I DO believe the internet IS the future of couponing as we know it today. And yes, even my paper company will one day be unnecessary.

Sincerely
Johnny Coupon

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:31:12 +0000

I happen to be one of the owners of MyJunkTree and as a new company I search the web to see if we are getting any visibility out there and I post n relevant Blogs.

We launched the company because we were tired of all the junk mail we were receiving and we personally did not want to bounce all over the web to contact all the different companies to stop it all. First and foremost we wanted to let people choose what they wanted to let come to their home knowing that some people really do like some of the coupons and catalogs. So our clients choose what they want stopped.

We also had to provide a service that is different than the other services out there, so here is what we offer:

1. We have a database of over 1300 catalogs that you can choose to stop.
2. We have over a 5700 charities/Non-Profits that you can stop solicitations from.
3. Stop the delivery of the national phone directories.
4. Stop the delivery of the weekly coupons.
5. Stop the general credit card offers as well as the ones from your own major bank.
6. Stop the miscellaneous junk mail from the data brokers.
7. You can register on the National Do Not Call Registry from the website.
8. You can order your no strings attached free annual credit report right from the website.
9. We plant trees with every new membership.

And, yes we are a paid service and yes you can do everything that we do for free, if you want to do all the research and spend the time contacting the companies yourself it can easily be done. We have just done all of the legwork for our clients and feel there is value in the service we provide. So check out MyJunkTree and make difference in your mailbox.

By: Steve | trade show booths

Steve | trade show booths — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:21:47 +0000

hey John,
I enjoyed your rant (LOL), and you may be interested to know that you rank #1 on google for “sardine flavored pinto beans”… but where’s my coupon? 🙂
I have heard that the US Postal Service actually has to be self-sustaining now, and that they don’t get taxpayer support, which is why they keep raising the price of a stamp every 12 days. I have also heard that because of email, online billpay, etc., they don’t get enough first class mail anymore and rely on bulk mail (junk mail) to raise enough money to keep afloat. This could also be propaganda put out by the bulk mail (junk mail) association of America though. Anyway, not junk mail or junk email for me, and no sardine flavored pinto beans either, coupon or no coupon!
~ Steve, Pinnacle Trade Show Booths

By: Frank Scheer

Frank Scheer — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:28:26 +0000

It is incorrect to say the Postal Service is supported by tax-payer funding. USPS is solely funded by postage and other revenue it receives from the mailing public. The are some appropriations made by Congress for reduced-rate or “free” services such as franking priviledge, matter for the blind, and Library Mail. However, Congress has rarely paid the full amount that these services incurred, so that mailers must cover that portion of overhead costs that should have been reimbursed. This is the way that USPS has operated since the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970.