How to get rid of junk mail

The real, physical kind, not email (still working on that one...)

Reader's Digest is a master at sending you voluminous junk mail that fills your mail box.  I might have won the sweepstakes dozens of times already, not to mention prompt reply cars, quads and limited lifetime offers.

If you ever actually reply (even to say no thanks, but enter me in the sweepstakes anyway, since no purchase is necessary terms and conditions legal fine print etc.) you will severely increase the number of offers extended to you, since you have just indicated that you are interested, as soon as they find the right offer to tempt you with.

What does dampen their enthusiasm, though, is if you just send the entire envelope, unopened, back to sender.  They can't get you to buy anything if you don't open it, and now they have to pay postage on the entire package twice (not just the reply-paid envelope inside).  And their processing centres are not set up to handle this.

This means that you are flagged as a "BAD PROSPECT" and left alone for a while.  I have successfully reduced my spam from them from about two offers per month to about two offers per year.

Good luck!