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Superbowl kickoff special – Save a tree
Please take a moment to do your part for the environment. End junk mail this year for your family, and save 2 trees.
According to the leading superbowl websites, Super Bowl 2009 kickoff will probably be a little after 6:30 PM Eastern Standard Time. As we saw last year, different official sites list different official kickoff [...]
Junk Mail Comes Alive
This does a great job of illustrating junk mail.
Junk Mail PSA – watch more funny videos
Coming together to save 1 Million trees
During 2009, the Privacy Council will plant 1 tree for every family that completely purges their name from all marketing lists, including catalogs, mailers and junk mail. This will also save one tree, and allow you to gradually opt-in to the mailings you do want to receive. The net impact will save 1 million trees [...]
Marketing Hall of Shame – SPAM Email #135 – Thailand LOTTO!
The scary thing about this email is not that someone was able to find my address and send it to me (unsolicited albeit), but rather that people must be responding to it….
The Privacy Council hits 500 member mark
Dear Privacy Council member,
After 30 days of providing open membership to our community-driven list removal service, we’re proud to announce the 500th member.
Collectively, we’ve removed everyone from 4,320 marketing lists, including Do Not Call and all of the direct marketing and catalog lists.
This has reduced waste from junk mail, and hopefully, improved the quality [...]
Sexy Political Robocalls – Have we gone too far?
CNN Reported that candidates have resorted to setting up robocalls that sound like phone sex. I thought we crossed the proverbial line with the calls themselves, it appears this takes it to a whole new level:
Embedded video from CNN Video
Join the Political Robocalling Petition
“Hello. I’m calling for John McCain and the RNC because you need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge’s home and killed Americans. And Democrats will enact an extreme leftist agenda if they take control of Washington. Barack Obama [...]
Turn this Halloween Green – Sign the Petition to Stop Junk Mail
Brought to you by San Francisco based ForestEthics, this petition needs your support to end Junk Mail.
Hurricane Ike – Protecting Your Personal Privacy
A natural disaster like Hurricane Ike can be safely managed, assuming people follow the recommendations of local authorities, secure their homes, and if needed leave town.
A disaster can also put a strain on local law enforcement officials and thus ‘post-hurricane’ has always been a popular time for crooks to take advantage of empty homes and [...]
