catalogchoice.org

Tis the season…to get lots of catalogs you don’t want. Just in the last couple days we got a Lands’ End and a Pottery Barn that went right to the recycling. But thanks to Bill Moyer’s feature on his show tonight, there is now an easy way to tell these companies you don’t want their catalogs that take up space in your mailbox and reduce the size of forests. Check out catalogchoice.org All you need to do is sign in and then go to “Find Catalogs” to access an alphabetized list. Click on the ones you want to cancel and enter your customer ID number that appears on the mailing label of each catalog. Click cancel catalog and you’re done — that site does all the rest of the work for you in canceling with the company. If you still like the company, for example, you want to still buy things from Land’s End but you don’t want their catalog, this site will even give you links to the company’s website. They don’t have an anti-business agenda, they’re just trying to give more power to the consumer. It’s a very easy process. I just now canceled those two magazines in a matter of a couple minutes.