In our relentless pursuit of enhanced greendom (founded on impatience with snail mail spam) ripe has been on a junk stopping rampage. We aren’t total haters, we just aren’t into getting unsolicited lingerie catalogs at the studio (well, at least some of us aren’t).

It all began on a cool fall day last year. We were armed with nothing but a Pages document, a phone and relentless patience. Yes, we were calling each junk mailer and asking to get off of their un-rad mailing lists.

Admittedly, my junk mail epiphany came while watching Oprah’s Earth Day special (don’t judge), at which point Matt Damon brought GreenDimes into our lives, saving us time and money and the world some precious resources. We have seen the paperless light. They have two services: one which is free and for one person at a time, and another for $20 with unlimited names sans legwork. We have the $20 premium service that has the added bonus of keeping us off of new lists, while taking us off of the campaigns and catalogs that we specify.

We are highly recommending this product to our friends, clients, and colleagues. Do it for the trees. Do it for the back health of our mail carriers. But most importantly, do it so you can get back all those hours that would have otherwise been spent hating the direct-marketing-man.