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Donate -- to Reduce Junk Mail*

By Eric Lipman

We've written recently about the "Do Not Call" list, and the less-well-known-but-still-awesome concept of the "Do Not Knock" list. But what about junk mail? We all still get it. In a world where many of us pay our bills "paperless"ly and your grandma can just PayPal you $5 for your birthday, junk mail is the only mail some people get. There are the innumerable "pre-approved" credit card offers, coupons for pool cleaning services (45 seconds on Google Earth would let you know I don't have a pool), and my personal favorite, the weekly letters -- from my current insurer -- telling me how much money I can save by switching car insurance providers. This post, though, was inspired by a piece of mail I received yesterday from a charity. You know, the kind you feel guilty calling "junk mail." Especially when you open the letters up just to remove the free return address labels without making a donation. I received an envelope from SmileTrain, a charity dedicated to correcting cleft palates on children. It looked like this one: Wait. You want me to give you money so you'll stop asking me for money? Could that work? Kris from the Dummocrats...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on September 22, 2010 (boomark / email).