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Green Gift Idea - Stop Junk Mail With 41pounds.org!
For people who prefer a "do it yourself" option, the founders of 41pounds.org created the Stop Junk Mail Kit, which contains all the information and tools you need to personally stop household junk mail and catalogs.[MarketWatch]

Mailman lauded for withholding junk mail
Residents along mailman Steve Padgett's route in Apex, N.C., say he's their hero for refusing to deliver at least seven years' worth of junk mail.[[United Press International]

THE PEOPLE SPEAK: Tired of junk mail, and now, post office policy
For the last two years, I have constantly been getting more and more junk mail. I really got tired of shredding it. In fact, I wore out one shredder from just that, getting rid of unwanted mail.[Muskogee Daily Phoenix]

Goodmail secures $20M for certified email
But Goodmail isn’t the only player to recognize the opportunity. A company called Return Path has devised a way to similarly white-list emails. In August, it absorbed smaller rival Habeas, which provided internet service providers with approved-sender lists to block out junk mail.[VentureBeat]