Hate junk mail?

I never liked people knocking at my door trying to sell me stuff, but the dislike has become more acute now that a knock at the door = barking dog, and always seems to line up with Jaia’s nap time.  I can’t foresee *anything* that I would be interested in that comes to my door uninvited.
We reduced door knockers to nearly zero with an ugly brass “no soliciting” sign on our mailbox.  The only knocks are now high school food drives (technically soliciting, but I’m OK with that) and Jehovah’s Witnesses (who obviously don’t consider salvation-selling soliciting).  This sign also scares away the weekend flyer package 50% of the time, which was an unintended consequence.  We like reading the flyers on Saturday morning over coffee.

That leaves junk mail and telemarketers as the last uninvited intrusions into our peaceful lives and we’ve made ourselves very hard to find by telephone (Primus VOIP, still ~$26 a month including tax, check it out!).

Imagine my delight then when I came across this article (source: Globe and Mail) that pointed me to reddotcampaign.ca.  Turns out Canada Post respects requests to not deliver junk mail to your mailbox!  No more preferred client updates or pre-approved gold cards! I’m also eco-conscious when it’s easy, so what better way to cut down on the amount of paper you put out to the curb for recycling?

If you carry through with this because I tipped you off, post a comment.  Let’s see how much of an impact we have.