Do you have a lot of stuff in your mailbox that you do not want? You could be wondering how to get rid of junk mail. It is true that most of mankind hates junk mails and are sick at the sight of it. It haunts their mail box every single day wasting considerable time on us. Otherwise known as spam, junk mail can be a quite a frustrating thing. Tremendous amount of paper is wasted. The sight of a pile of paper on your table can be an irritating thing to watch. Junk mail can completely waste your time and test your patience to the hilt. The last things you need are Viagra tablets at throw away prices, or penis enlargement techniques that “really work”. Giving yourself some time, you can easily get rid of junk mail.

Here are a few methods that you could adopt to get rid of junk mail.

1. Write to the mailing services in your country – Mailing Preference service in the UK and Mail Preference service in the USA manage the major mailing lists. Their charges will be very less to add your name to the back-out list maintained by these marketing associations.

2. Buy the ‘stop the junk mail’ kit – This is available with the Consumer Research Institute. The kit provides you with pre-addressed postcards. These postcards can be sent to the companies that annoy you with wasteful catalogs and useless brochures.

3. Opt-out of the credit card solicitations – Once you opt-out, it is valid for five years and you can sometimes even request to be totally removed from the list. Call them up or mail them through the internet to stop junk mail from mortgage, credit cards and other insurance companies. A single phone call can send an opt-out request to all the major companies.

4. Do not share name with companies – If you use mail services to do business with companies, it puts you on their contact list immediately. The first time you place an order with the company, it is suggested that you put your name in the ‘do not promote’ list. Remind the company not to share or rent your name with various other companies.

5. Make things clear – Call up you credit card service and ask them not to send you advance checks. You must destroy them if you do not plan to use it.

6. Call the companies individually – All the catalog companies tend to send a lot of junk mail. So request them to remove you from the mailing list. The companies usually have a customer service number that you can contact. You can simply express your disinterest in the company’s products. Do possess the catalog while you call as they often request a code or tracking number printed over there.

7. Contact the individual senders – Many items are sent in bulk in such a way that every resident gets it on a postal route. They are randomly addressed to ‘residents’ or some variant. You cannot, by law, consider all these junk mail. The ‘resident’ mail needs to be posted as addressed. Contact the individual mailers and request them to remove your name from their list or database.

8. Stop mails – If you have a lot of junk coming at you that are not even addressed to you, try stopping them. If the mails are for a former resident, write ‘return to sender’ quoting the reason as to why. You can drop this envelope in the mail box. Bulk mail for former resident can be stopped the same way.

9. Place a sign – A board saying “no free papers” can help to get rid of junk mails. By placing a sign you try to eliminate unnecessary mails that fill your mail box everyday. The board sign can simply avoid this.