Despite my best intentions to try to reduce the amount of paper I'm using there are many people and organisations who seem intent on filling my postbox and recycle bin with stuff that I don't want and didn't ask for in the first place.
Here's a useful link for anyone (in Australia) who wants to reduce the unwanted advertising, junk mail and flyers they receive.
This Australia post site shows how to reduce the number of unaddressed letters you might get:
http://auspost.com.au/personal/managing-letterbox.html
And this link will take you to the Do Not Mail register of ADMA (Australian Direct Marketing Association). Register here to stop recieving unwanted mail from all companies who are part of this program:
http://www.adma.com.au/consumer-help/do-not-mail/
It looks like I need to get an extra sticker for my postbox, in addition to the "no advertising material" sticker it currently has. But as AusPost point out - not everyone will heed the stickers anyway. I get plenty of flyers from local real estate agents who must think that leaflets promoting their services are perhaps educational.
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Thursday, December 2, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
Goodbye NRMA
The NRMA (a leading motoring organisation of Australia) provide a publication called Open Road. Now, while it's good to have membership of NRMA for emergency fixes to my vehicle, its not so good to get this publication.
I've tried before without success to cancel this, but was emailing, and I didn't get a response. Here's the correct method: call 13 11 22, select option to amend an existing membership etc, then ask not to recieve Open Road. They'll switch this off for you, but warn that you may receive next copy due to printing lead times.
So this magazine has 76 pages (Sep/Oct 2010) printed double-sided and is published every two months, so I have reduced consumption by 228 pages (or nearly half a ream of paper), and six plastic bags. That count doesn't include the additional brochure inserts (2 pages). That means my time is saved, and there is less clutter in the house. It also means the energy used to print, distribute, collect recycling and recyle is also now not needed. What a relief!
If you're wondering about whether or not to stick with this mag, here's a few stats. This latest copy has a lot of advertising. In fact, only 50% of the mag is articles - not very interesting articles in my view, but hey you might like them. Approx figures below:
Interestingly, the direct advertising from this magazine, in 2009, provided NRMA with $5.9M of revenue, but their distrbution costs were $7.8M.
One of the 'travel' articles is about a cruise through the Northwest Passage - now possible due to diminished ice due to global warming :0(
I've tried before without success to cancel this, but was emailing, and I didn't get a response. Here's the correct method: call 13 11 22, select option to amend an existing membership etc, then ask not to recieve Open Road. They'll switch this off for you, but warn that you may receive next copy due to printing lead times.
So this magazine has 76 pages (Sep/Oct 2010) printed double-sided and is published every two months, so I have reduced consumption by 228 pages (or nearly half a ream of paper), and six plastic bags. That count doesn't include the additional brochure inserts (2 pages). That means my time is saved, and there is less clutter in the house. It also means the energy used to print, distribute, collect recycling and recyle is also now not needed. What a relief!
If you're wondering about whether or not to stick with this mag, here's a few stats. This latest copy has a lot of advertising. In fact, only 50% of the mag is articles - not very interesting articles in my view, but hey you might like them. Approx figures below:
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| Approx. figures for content of Sep/Oct 2010 Open Road magazine |
One of the 'travel' articles is about a cruise through the Northwest Passage - now possible due to diminished ice due to global warming :0(
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