More than 250 million pieces of direct mail are delivered by the US Postal Service every day. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, half of all that advertising mail gets tossed right in the trash without being read.

That’s frustrating, according to the Direct Marketing Association (DMA).

“Certainly marketers and fundraisers don’t want to send a marketing offer or a fundraising offer to a consumer who doesn’t want to receive that,” said Xenia (Senny) Boone, DMA’s Senior Vice President for Corporate & Social Responsibility.

The DMA advises consumers who want to opt out of junk mail to go to www.dmachoice.org to register. They receive between 10,000-15,000 requests a month.

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