A common problem for most
everyone these days is paper junk mail.
This app is an attempt to stop it easily, one piece at a time. You photograph the address label on some
piece of junk mail you wish to stop receiving, and the app will go to work, find the company and
tell them to remove you from the mailing list.
Or, that’s the concept. Works on Android and iOS.
It does
have a decent rating in the App Store (Apple’s) but only 140 reviews. I believe it requires you to give your
mailing address and some email address (doesn’t have to be your main one) and
create a password. It will then email
you when it has removed your name from some vendor’s mailing list.
I do this activity the hard way right now, by
faxing the address label to junk mailers, with bold “remove my name” written under it. However, finding a fax number to use
is sometimes difficult or impossible, and if you have to resort to finding the fax number
on line, it is too time consuming. And if you mail
a request to be dropped the stamp costs $ .47 or something like that. Why pay to say “no” ?
An earlier effort, called MailStop
APP, appears to have been purchased by Trusted ID, but the website is vague on
how to use it, possibly you have to be a client of Trusted ID’s identity theft
company.
Since photographing a check
is now sufficient to make a bank deposit, I am sure that we will someday be
able to photo address labels on junk mail and let some company use it to stop the flood. This might be the one if they improve the data base, get more users, and perfect the app a little more. Your comments ?
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