Quick Tips: Stop Junk Mail

Keep a low profile: Every time you share your address - from entering a contest or shopping online - you are giving up valuable information for direct mailing companies. And those who aren't interested in mailing to you, are very interested in sharing you address (for a profit) to someone who is! Try your best to limit who you disclose your contact information to.

And when you're asked for your number or postal/zip code while in the check-out line politely say no. They use this information to track customers; the phone number can be entered into a database for future telemarketing (annoying), and the postal/zip code will determine where in the city to send flyers (terrible for the environment!).