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Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College: Bad for my mailbox, bad for the environment, bad for their donors

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

I have been asking the folks at the Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College for over a year to stop sending postal mailings to our address.  According to my records, I’ve contacted them on January 4, 2008, November 21, 2008, November 22, 2008, and January 6, 2009.  During that time, they’ve sent me three mailings, one of which was a DVD which must have been wicked expensive to produce.

I’ve written to Anne Gibbons, who is listed as the theatre’s ticket manager, Lance Olson (the theatre manager), and even Jacqueline W. Liebergott, the president of Emerson College.  My emails to Gibbons and Liebergott were neither bounced nor acknowledged.  I know for a fact that Olson received my email, because he responded to it twice.

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“American Friends of Tzohar”: disreputable, money-wasting charity

Monday, September 15th, 2008

As I’ve written previously, I’ve been trying for almost a year to eliminate junk mail from my mailbox.

The main strategy I use for this is, quite simply, to ask the organizations that send me junk mail to stop, and to escalate my request when it goes unheeded.  In extreme cases, where the escalation is also ignored, I complain to the Better Business Bureau.

This pretty much always works.  I have never encountered an organization which has ignored all of my requests and even the BBB complaint.  Until now, that is.

The first an only (thus far) organization to completely ignore all of my requests and even my BBB complaint is a Jewish charity, American Friends of Tzohar.  (more…)

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Fighting junk mail, one envelope at a time

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Do you get a lot of junk mail?  I mean the kind that arrives on paper through the able ministrations of the U.S. Postal Service, not the kind that arrives via email.  You know, mail-order catalogs, promotions from the phone company, requests for money from charities, that sort of thing.

Do you throw most of it away?

Do you know how bad for the environment it is?  Cutting down trees, manufacturing paper, manufacturing ink, printing junk, transporting it to its recipients, and disposing of or recycling it all add up to a huge waste.

Do you know what a time-waster it is?  Looking at each piece to decide whether it’s junk, opening the ones that fool you, and discarding it all may take only a few seconds per piece, but when you add up all those seconds, it comes out to quite a lot of wasted time!

I was once in the same boat.  Six days a week, my mailbox was flooded with junk, which far exceeded the useful stuff, and a day without any mail at all was simply unheard of.

But now, I go for weeks without seeing any junk, and our mail carrier is spared the walk up our porch stairs at least once a week.  Putting a stop to the junk isn’t rocket science.  It takes some effort, but it’s worth it.  And I’m going to tell you exactly how to do it.

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