2000 News Release Stop the hail of junk mail New resources from King County can help reduce junk mail at home AND at work With Christmas catalogs already showing up in mailboxes, it's a good time to think about reducing unwanted mail. Recycling your junk mail is a good start, but it's even better to try to prevent it from coming at all. King County has two new resources to help reduce unwanted mail. It includes handy tear-off postcards to help people get off lists, plus a wealth of other information.
Unwanted mail can be an even bigger problem at work than at home.
At one office mailroom, a six-week study showed that the mailroom staff was spending 25 percent of its time sorting advertising mail. But businesses can't use the same strategies that households use to reduce unwanted mail. For example, the Direct Marketing Association's Mail Preference Service, which works for households, cannot be used for business addresses. The Coalition, which is coordinated through King County, is a nationwide partnership of solid waste professionals. The Coalition developed the Reduce Business Junk Mail Website because they could not find any existing resources to help businesses with this pervasive problem.