Harrasment From Ameriquest Mortgage

Q: Almost weekly I receive mortgage mail from Ameriquest wanting me to take a loan from them. I have sent mail repeatedly requesting to be removed from their mailing list. Finally, getting no where I called the company headquarters. THere response was "There is a Do Not Call list but no Do Not Mail list. Therefore we can send all the mail we want." The clerk may refuse to take it saying its not obsene. Get a supervisor if so. The USPS regs say that they must accept it and that the definition of obsene is completely defined by the customer (you). i would never use Ameriquest after that. Who can I report them to and how can I make them pay for this flagerant display and abuse of power?

A: About as crazy as calling junk mail from a mortgage company "harrasment". But this is why some people shouldn't stop taking their meds It is estimated that 70 billion pieces of junk mail were sent in the United States in 1997. 93% of those end up discarded unopened. To you, perhaps, junk mail represents a minor annoyance and a few envelopes in the trash or recycling bin every day. To our forests, it's 62 million trees cut down each year. Over 74,000 acres of trees just for catalogs. Pulp processing to produce the paper for junk mail requires 25 billion gallons of water. Well under 1% of junk mail gets recycled and in some landfills, it accounts for as much as 2% of our municipal solid waste stream. What can you do to discourage junk mail? When you move, do NOT file a change of address form with the Postal Service (USPS). The USPS sells those change of address notices to mass marketers. Notify your creditors and friends directly

with your new address. The USPS can also be used as an unwitting ally in your fight against junk mail. Under the Federal Law 39 USC 3008, you have the right to have the USPS issue an order, to a junk mailer, to stop sending you mail and to delete your name from mailing lists. USPS Form 1500 is used to complain about pandering or obscene mail. To an environmentalist, nothing should be more obscene than cutting down 62 million trees annually for junk mail. The beauty of it is, the USPS is prohibited from reviewing the merits of your complaint because it is "obscene" in the "sole discretion of the recipient." So use Form 1500 to fight the obscenity of clear cuts!