Free toss the junk plan:

This service can easily cut your mail forwarding costs in half, even more if you will be traveling outside the US!

With so many catalog companies buying (and selling!) your name on mailing lists, it doesn't take long to start receiving more than you care to get. And we understand that your name is now made available to those list companies when you do a change of address at your post office. It's not that much of big deal before you start cruising, you can just throw them away. But when they accumulate for a month, they can create quite an impressive sized (and heavy) stack of mail. Following is the text from the forms we send out to help you understand how we try to help you solve this problem:

Most new customers have questions about our policies for sorting mail. The following guidelines should answer most of those questions.

If you are concerned about your postage costs, you can ask us to 'toss the junk' by checking the appropriate box below. There is no extra charge for us to toss the junk. What do we consider junk? The dozen mail order catalogs, that we all seem to get without asking for, are sent to the trash.  Sweepstakes offers bite the dust (yes, even though you are PRACTICALLY GUARANTEED to win 10 billion dollars). Annual reports, proxy, alumni & nonprofit materials follow close behind. Anything sent at the bulk mail rate is regarded with scrutiny. Some things, like your Cruising World renewal notice and SSCA (Seven Seas Cruising Association) bulletins might be sent to you at bulk rate. We don't toss those.

What is not considered junk? Most first class mail, newspapers, magazines, trade publications and the big boating related catalogs get sent. If there is anything in this group that you don't want to receive, please notify the sender. If we're tossing the junk for you and we're not sure about something, we send it. The decision to toss, or not, may be based on whether you are in the states (i.e. cheap postage) or not.

When you are in the States we don't get too carried away sorting out the junk mail. We toss the obvious heavy stuff like catalogs. You will usually have several pounds of mail to be forwarded. If you have 5.8 pounds of mail and we reduce that down to 5.2 pounds, there is no savings to you. You are still paying for six pounds (all carriers round the weight up). Even if we did get it under 5 lbs, the difference in price for UPS ground service is about a dime. If you have us send something at the more expensive next day air rate, then it makes sense for us to start looking a little closer for ways to lower your shipping cost.

When you are outside the U.S. we pay more attention to what we send. The Overseas rates are very expensive for all of the carriers. A few ounces can sometimes make a big difference in cost. We also take a few more liberties with your mail when we are tossing the junk for you.

If the toss the junk plan doesn't exactly fit your needs, one of our premium services, like our red flag service or special mail sorting, might offer what you need.

Unless you tell us differently, we send everything. One man's junk is another man's treasure.