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when clicking on the activation link or cutting it and pasting in browser I am just taken to the initial page with no area for activating. Am i missing something?
Thank you for this service
I get so many catalogs especially at Christmas I find myself not even looking at them just recycling.
Pretty one sided reporting on “Today”s part. Please research the paper mills who use trees from their own forests which are replanted. The public is outraged at ever increasing mail costs. What do you think happens as mail volume continues to decrease? Postage prices will continue to climb as deliveries go down. Pretty simple economics. Is anyone concerned about jobs being lost at printing companies? Has anyone noticed the number of paper mills merging and closing? The printers and paper mills in the USA have been highly responsible in addressing evironmental concerns over the past few decades. Does “Today” realize how many of those cancelled catalogs were printed on recycled paper? I just hope that when laid off postal carriers, print craftsmen and mill workers go in search of new jobs, that they do so on bicycles. That’s going to be a lot of cars on the road all day every day, once these people are on the streets looking for work.
to Mike Murphy:
What you’re saying is that catalogs need to be produced just so that people can keep their jobs? So personal computers should never have been manufactured, so typewriter companies could still stay in business, right? Come on! We ALL have to evolve and modify our lifestyles to what’s best for all of us.
Personally, I only order on-line, and don’t see why I get catalogs, when I never even look at them. There’s a CHOICE to receive them, and I shouldn’t be forced to get them. The companies should listen to their customers and not send them if the customers don’t want them. It’s that simple.
Don’t forget to check your spam filter(s) for
confirmation/reply messages-have now canceled 16 catalogs-this is the greatest!!
I was just wondering how long it will take for pending tag to change. when I clicked on the link from the email I went to the website but that is all that happened. I responded yesterday to the email and was curious how long before pending tag changes?
Thanks For The website.
Doug G.
Where have you been all my life???I am sure my postman will be grateful. I will tell all my friends
WOW!
They refused Catalog Choice request so I had to send an e-mail. This is their answer: Dear Ms. Gibson-Corcoran,
Thank you for your email. Customer service and your satisfaction are very important to The Orvis Company.
I have processed your request to be removed from our mailing list; however, our catalogs are printed up to six months in advance and it is possible that you may continue to receive residual catalogs. Overtime, the mailings will eventually stop. I appreciate the opportunity to have served you, and hope to be able to assist you once again in the future. If you have any questions, please let me know.
Sincerely,
Doug Nolan
Orvis Customer Service
customerservice@orvis.com
1-888-235-9763
Great job with Park School and Today show. I recommend linking with faith-based groups and going after the junk fundraising mail next. Consider reaching out to National Council of Churches and others who want to educate their parishes (example: http://www.ants.edu for seminary working on energy conservation & recycling…I want one of those Varsity Recycling t-shirts…
all best wishes, Sara Hamlen, Boston MA
Link this site to http://www.greenfaith.org or vice versa—
check out this interfaith environmental group & examples at http://www.episcopalchurch.org (search environment)
GreenFaith’s Staff
Fletcher Harper
Executive Director
revfharper@greenfaith.org
The Rev. Fletcher Harper is an Episcopal priest and GreenFaith’s Executive Director. Under Harper’s leadership, GreenFaith has developed series of innovative programs linking religious belief and practice to the environment. An award-winning spiritual writer and nationally-recognized preacher on the environment, he teaches and speaks weekly at houses of worship from a range of denominations in New Jersey and beyond about the moral, spiritual basis for environmental stewardship and justice. A graduate of Princeton University and Union Theological Seminary, he served as a parish priest for ten years and in leadership positions in the Episcopal Church before becoming GreenFaith’s Executive Director.
Read more about Fletcher Harper.
Since your system maintenance today, neither the “contact us” nor the “search” nor the “decline” features work. I am also wondering how long it takes to remove the pending tag and activate my account.
Thank you Thank You
to Dee and Chuck: I’ve noticed many catalogs changing the customer number with each catalog. Rather than saving the back page, I put the new number (and the date I received the catalog) in a “note” in the “more ” section and edit the note when new numbers come in. At first I was changing the number directly, but then I lost the info about when I had originally opted out, as only the updated date was available, and lost the fact that I had had to change the number in the first place.
I constantly get duplicate catalogs to work and home, but no more! Signed up a few minutes ago and already eliminated 6 (x2) catalogs from my life!
Thanks so much for the airing on the Today’s show. Myself and another member of our 130 club of women saw the show and are bringing it to the club as a service project. Tomorrow we will announce a contest to cancel 10K catalogs by March 1st.
Our club puts on a large Home, Garden & Antique Show every year for the past 22 years – this year our theme is “Going Green”. So this is sooo exciting for us.
Thanks again – this is a great website!
When you had the “Refused” tag for Orvis, I wrote them to complain about not honoring catalog choice opt-out requests. I mentioned that I wouldn’t be purchasing anything from them until I heard that they were honoring catalog choice opt-out requests. That’s a big sacrifice for me! (love their stuff) I’ve had responses from two different people at Orvis, both saying that catalog choice is a new service, they have no business relationship with you, and one of them said “we are not familiar” with catalog choice. I gave them the website address and encouraged them to learn more. Both emails to me suggested that DMA provides the service I want, but I’m not about to pay a dollar to get DMA (a merchants association) to stop something they initiated, nor am I about to give them my credit card number. (I think that Orvis is familiar with catalog choice, after reading earlier posts in this thread.)
A curious thing was that one of them said she believed that they had not sent a letter to catalog choice refusing, and now I notice that the tag for Orvis says “Unconfirmed.” So I’m confused… did they refuse your request or not? I don’t want to be scolding companies if they have not actually refused.
Thanks!
Mary:
This weekend Orvis changed their position on Catalog Choice. They indicated that they would set up an account to download the names. As a gesture of goodwill, we changed the label to “Unconfirmed”. The label will automatically switch to Confirmed once they download the names.
Orvis was well aware of us, perhaps the person you spoke with was not aware of this fact. We have been in correspondence with them since November.
We are pleased that the additional pressure that consumers such as yourself put on Orvis caused them to change their position and start the process of honoring the request that you are entering on our site.
Thank you for your efforts! You are helping us make this work.
Yay. Isn’t that great news! Thanks so much for all the work you are doing to make this happen.
My New Year’s resolution was to make changes. I use reusable shopping bags and energy efficient lights now. In the past calling companies still made it difficult to stop catalogs because if I ordered online the catalogs would start again. I am still receiving most of the catalogs I listed to stop over 2 months ago. I realize the companies are figuring this out, too. Thanks so much for trying to stop all this waste.
I am part of the Master Recyclers program here in Portland OR and it is great to have a resource and support from a company doing the right thing. Prevention of the printing and distribution of unwanted mail/catalogs is critical. Thank you!
I receive too many catalogs, unsolicited , can you help?
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