Its taking over that woooooooooorld!

The average American receives a staggering 41 pounds of junk mail every year.

Even after coming to Penn, my mailbox is full of loan offers, credit card offers, and invitations to live at the Stratum.

Then the possibility of identity theft from the credit card offers arises. I’m just not seeing any positive aspects to junk mail.

Thankfully, for $41, those 41 pounds of junk mail can disappear. A new business, 41pounds.org contacts hundreds of the biggest junk mail perpetrators, and removes your name from their mailing lists. When they finish, 80-95 percent of your junk mail should be eliminated.

The whole business started out of laziness. After founder Sander DeVries figured out how to stop junk mail, he told everyone he knew, thinking that they would join his crusade against junk mail. “No one went through and did it,” DeVries told metromode media in an interview.

Thus a business was born! DeVries is proud if its success, especially the environmental aspect. Thanks to over 2,000 satisfied customers, 41pounds.org resulted in, “over 2,400 trees saved, 1.4 million gallons of water saved and 920,000 pounds of carbon dioxide not released into the atmosphere.”

The business is expanding and starting a marketing campaign. Don’t be surprised to return home this summer and find fewer catalogues, coupons, and loan offers.

Now if only 41pounds.org could take care of my junk e-mail.

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