Because I want to Opt Out and Send it Back.

I am sick of junk mail.

I found a service online, https://www.catalogchoice.org/, which helps to unsubscribe you from various mailing lists. The problem, though, is that those same companies may add you back onto their list if they re-buy your info from one of their partners. So you have to re-cancel your subscriptions to mail you don't want at least once a year. And you have to pay for the preemptive strike service, where they remove your name from the list of names to be sold. Again, your name could get back onto that list at any time, so you have to keep your subscription to this paid service active until the end of time.

ENOUGH! I don't want this junk mail! So what else can I do?

What if I marked it "return to sender, I opt out"? What if EVERYONE who didn't want junk mail took a few minutes to return the letters to the source, and let the source of the problem deal with it? Could that be enough to get these companies to stop wasting paper and consumer's time?

What do you think?

I would like to use this same approach with car seats. Car seats are a huge problem. They are only "good" for 6 years before the plastic degrades to the point that the company can no longer guarantee their effectiveness, and so must be SMASHED to pieces (to prevent an unsuspecting trash picker to use a possibly faulty product putting a child in danger and the car seat manufacturer in an uncomfortable position of liability) and then put into landfill because there is only one facility in the country, that I have found, that will go through the painstaking effort to recycle the recyclable parts, and they are not located anywhere near me and they only process car seats from their area. SO, what if we send back our used car seats to the manufacturer and make them deal with it? I think it is fair to ask producers to be responsible for disposal/recycling of their product if there are no local alternatives.

What do you think?

HP does (or used to do) a nice version of this where they would include a paid envelope for your used toner cartridge to be sent back to their facility to be recycled. That is corporate responsibility!