Improve Your Junk Mail Karma
September 1, 2017
Are you inundated with junk mail that ultimately winds up in a landfill? Improve your junk mail karma with this handy app.
Is your mailbox (your real mailbox, not the one on your laptop) inundated with catalogs you flip through for a minute and then toss? Coupon books? Fliers? Credit card offers? I don’t have to tell you a lot of that discarded paper ends up in a landfill. I also don’t have to tell you that you probably don’t have the time to contact each of these companies to cancel your subscriptions. While there are some web sites like DMA Choice and CatalogChoice that give you contact information for catalog companies the information is not always complete and usually requires some leg work on your part.
PaperKarma is an app that makes unsubscribing from unwanted catalogs pretty painless. Once you have set up your profile, which takes about a minute, you take a picture with your phone of the logo or address of the company whose catalog you want to give the heave-ho, upload the image, and hit unsubscribe me. You get four unsubscribe requests for free but you do have to pay to keep using the app after that. A month of unlimited unsubscribes is $1.99 and a year’s worth is $19.99.
The Sustain Blog by Nicole Brait 
September 1, 2017 at 3:20 PM
Apple does the same thing for free. Further improved with OS High Sierra, coming out soon.
Dad
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September 1, 2017 at 4:05 PM
Hi Dad,
I’m so flattered you read my blog. However, this is an app to keep from getting paper junk mail that is delivered by the U.S. Postal Service. As fantastic as you and I both think Apple is I doubt they have anything that keeps the mail carrier from delivering IKEA catalogs to your front door.
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