{"id":75,"date":"2008-05-14T08:51:50","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T12:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/2008\/05\/14\/get-1-to-stop-junk-mail-with-greendimes\/"},"modified":"2008-05-14T13:23:16","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T17:23:16","slug":"get-1-to-stop-junk-mail-with-greendimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/2008\/05\/14\/get-1-to-stop-junk-mail-with-greendimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Get $1 to Stop Junk Mail with GreenDimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who actually likes junk mail? Assuming you&#8217;re like most of us and hate it, the good news is that you don&#8217;t have to be powerless against it. There are a number of services available to help you stop it from overpowering your mailbox and invading your life. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d read about the free services way back when, but never signed up for one since it seemed like kind of a pain and I didn&#8217;t really feel like going through the process of opting out from the multitude of direct marketers&#8217; lists. But a couple weeks ago, while reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/24\/how-to-stop-junk-mail-in-its-tracks\/\">this post on GetRichSlowly<\/a>, one service caught my eye: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greendimes.com\/\">GreenDimes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greendimes.com\/\"><img border=0 src='http:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/snag-1931.png' alt='GreenDimes' \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>My favorite part about GreenDimes? The part where <strong>I don&#8217;t have to do anything besides sign up<\/strong>. So sign up I did (on May 3, 2008) &#8212; I opted for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greendimes.com\/gw\/chooser\">$20 Premium account<\/a> (one-time  fee) so that GreenDimes would do all the work for me &#8212; and the junk mail stopped flowing in almost immediately. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only been a couple weeks and our mailbox is beginning to feel a little lonely. When the occasional catalog does sneak in, I just login to my GreenDimes account, search its vast database of vendors, and with a single click tell GreenDimes to go after the mailer on my behalf. It&#8217;s brilliant.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src='http:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/snag-1932.png' alt='GreenDimes Admin' \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>But it gets better!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not interested in paying 20 bucks (it was well worth it to me), you can actually <strong>have GreenDimes pay you $1 to stop your junk mail<\/strong>. If you go that route, you get the Basic account and have to do some opt-out work yourself, but who doesn&#8217;t want to stop junk mail? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greendimes.com\/gw\/chooser\">Go for it<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>With my Premium account, I get all this good stuff:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 years junkmail protection (sweet!)<\/li>\n<li>Proven system that will significantly reduce postal junk mail (bring it!)<\/li>\n<li>Catalog Screener (works like a charm)<\/li>\n<li>Automatic removal from common junk mail lists (oh yeah!)<\/li>\n<li>Monthly junk mail list monitoring (rockin&#8217;!)<\/li>\n<li>Protect unlimited number of household names (key to have both me &#038; my wife listed)<\/li>\n<li>Postage-paid postcards for special mail list removals (since some mailers make it difficult to remove your name)<\/li>\n<li>5 trees planted on behalf of member (trees rule!)<\/li>\n<li>24\/7 Customer service (I like CS!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The highest-level plan &#8212; the Bundle &#8212; gets you all that and more goodies, like energy-efficient light bulbs and a reusable shopping bag. <\/p>\n<p>I like that GreenDimes is going after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greendimes.com\/greendimes\/GDImpact\">environmental angle<\/a> &#8212; hence encouraging people to sign up by paying them $1. I&#8217;m sure the business angle there is that they&#8217;ll generate a lot of buzz and get enough people like me to pay for the Premium or Bundle plans to more than make up for the $5 million they&#8217;re investing in the $1 sign-up program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greendimes.com\/\">GreenDimes<\/a> rocks and yes, it actually works!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who actually likes junk mail? Assuming you&#8217;re like most of us and hate it, the good news is that you don&#8217;t have to be powerless against it. There are a number of services available to help you stop it from overpowering your mailbox and invading your life. 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