junk mail

Most of us are aware of the Direct Marketing Association's Mail Preference Service, which gets you off national mailing lists. However, if you do anything like get married, buy property, have a baby, etc. that shows up in public records, you get a whole bunch more mail.

This morning I learned here, under Public Records, that if you get mail you know you don't want that's marked 'Address Service Requested' or 'Return Postage Guaranteed,' you can send it back, unopened, by writing 'Refused--Return to sender' on the envelope, and the company will have to pay the return postage.

On a slightly different note, I'm just pleased I'm off the list that followed me through three states and had my first name as Chisty. If they'd had one more wrong letter, I'd be a porn star.