{"id":78,"date":"2003-08-06T11:17:38","date_gmt":"2003-08-06T11:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2003\/08\/combatting_junk\/"},"modified":"2003-08-06T11:17:38","modified_gmt":"2003-08-06T11:17:38","slug":"combatting_junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2003\/08\/combatting_junk\/","title":{"rendered":"Combatting Junk Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Update: The website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.optoutprescreen.com\">www.optoutprescreen.com<\/a> is easier than the phone number and it is now 5 years, not 2. &#8212; 5\/14\/2011]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I called the number below. There is a 2 year and permanent opt out option:<\/p>\n<p>From <a title=\"Clark Howard Show Notes Tuesday, July 22\" href=\"http:\/\/clarkhoward.com\/shownotes\/2003\/07\/22.html#optout\">Clark Howard Show Notes Tuesday, July 22<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But if it&#8217;s junk mail you hate, you can do something about it by contacting the Direct Marketing Association. Send your request for &#8220;no more direct mail&#8221; to:<\/p>\n<p>DMA<\/p>\n<p>Mail Preference Service<\/p>\n<p>P.O. Box 9008<\/p>\n<p>Farmingdale, NY 11735<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t feel like sending the letter, you can go to the Web site, the-dma.org and pay $5 to request no more mail. You can also call 1-888-5-OPT-OUT to have your name removed from the database for sending out pre-approved credit cards.<\/p>\n<div class=\"posted\">Now playing: <B>Sweet Jane (Live)<\/B> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22Cowboy Junkies%22\" target=\"_blank\">Cowboy Junkies<\/a> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Update: The website www.optoutprescreen.com is easier than the phone number and it is now 5 years, not 2. &#8212; 5\/14\/2011] I called the number below. There is a 2 year and permanent opt out option: From Clark Howard Show Notes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2003\/08\/combatting_junk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}