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- <text id=90TT2554>
- <title>
- Sep. 24, 1990: First-Class Advice
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 24, 1990 Under The Gun
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 29
- First-Class Advice
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> Direct-mail advertisers are worried about the sudden desire
- among consumers to cut down on junk mail. More than 1 million
- people, an elevenfold increase over last summer, have signed
- up for the post office's preference service, which eliminates
- many third-class and sales mailings. The Direct Marketing
- Association blames the backlash on the 1989 book 50 Simple
- Things You Can Do to Save the Earth. The best seller's No. 1
- recommendation: get rid of unnecessary mail. "If only 100,000
- people stopped their junk mail," the book claims, "we could
- save about 150,000 trees every year."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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