PlanetMike's Technology Journal

I just prepared six more applications against junk mailers, mostly local. It is quite annoying that all commercial mailers do not include a return mailing address. I do a google search, but some businesses can’t be found online. So I call the phone number given, and they don’t have any useful info on there, they [...]

I just realized my Form 1500 application for Valpak got ignored by the USPS as well. Luckily, their web site has an opt-out form: ValPak Opt-Out.
And then I discovered as I was filling in the opt-out form, the USPS gave me someone else’s mail! That must be against the law! I hope no one is [...]

Isn’t it amazing that of the five (5!) Applications for Prohibitory Order that I’ve filed against Comcast Cable, that none of them have even been acknowledged by the USPS? I guess when I file the next one, I need to send it with a Return Receipt requested, so I will know that the Processing Center [...]

AT&T slammed me a few months ago. I made the huge mistake of giving them my street address when I called their slamming resolution center. I am now gettings tons of junk mail addressed to me as a “former AT&T customer.” Now I know if I ever get slammed, don’t give my mailing address to [...]

My old junk mail page is a bit out of date. I’ll start keeping it up to date via my journal entries.

I’ve been updating my stack of receipts from the Post Office Form 1500 applications I’ve filed.
Over 25 companies are now banned from sending me mail. Unfortunately the idiots at the local
Post Office don’t believe that anyone would not want that stuff, so I am still getting the
Advo Shopwise garbage. I just wrote a [...]