Catalog Choice: Stop Those Endless Catalogs

What i would prefer more than a site that lets you opt out of paper based catalogues, is to opt out of paper catalogues AND opt in for them in PDF form to be emailed to you. This would still give you the information contained in them, but would cut down:

1. tree destruction due to paper usage
2. chemicals used for printing 1000s of catalogues
3. would increase the profits of the companies sending catalogues as distribution costs would be far higher!
4. it would allow sorting of what catalogues you wanted electronically.

Having a site that lets you opt in to catalogues like this would be fantastic for the majority of the western world, and would let you put a simple "no adveritsing material" sticker on your letterbox - i'd much prefer that to having paper based advertising!

Heck if you wanted you could also have the option for people to "order a paper based catalogue" that would post it out to you for a small fee (for those of you who are adicted to Victoria Secret catalogues) which would be addressed in an envelope;) so you wouldn't have to explain it to your wife lol.

American retailers mailed out about 9.07 billion magazines and periodicals in the 2005 fiscal year, weighing a total of 1.83 megatonnes in weight.

- The Potential for Greater Fiber Recovery from Magazines, Catalogs and Direct Mail 2006, by SLS Consulting for Direct Marketing Association, Inc.
http://envirostats.info/2007/05/18/0016/

I have gone to catalog choice to opt out of numerous catalogs BUT IT DOES NO GOOD--I have as many catalogs as ever coming from these companies.

I am all for canceling unwanted catalogs; however, I have discovered a few things about Catalog Choice that concern me about their service.
1. Catalog Choice is not a secure sight and they do not have a process in place to securely transfer your personal information to catalog retailers. Any information you provide to Catalog Choice could be past to people whom you do not want to share with.
2. Prior to listing at least some of the larger companies on their site, Catalog Choice did not work with the companies to create a process to transfer information in and format/file that the retailers could work with.
3. There is no follow up or guarantee that your request will be past to the catalog company’s and processed as requested. I also have the option to choose email notification if I want it.

Bottom line, I choose to go directly to Catalog sites and request that I be removed from their mailing list. This what I know there is a process in place.

In disagreement with people above, I've found Catalog Choice to work really well! The only catalogs I've received lately are ones I forgot to decline.

As for personal information, all you have to give them are, if you have it, a customer number and keycode--no really private info.

Anyone who wanted your custumer number & key code could get them from catalogs you threw in the trash.

I don't want the following calalogs-
Hammacher Schlemmer
Dr. Leonard's
Signals
Bits and Pieces
The Tender Filet