Greendimes

Services

Greendimes is a junk mail reduction service that unsubscribes customers from direct mailing lists. To offset deforestation, the company offers to plant a tree with each new subcription. Competitors in this space are 41punds.org and Directmail.com. Greendimes had many early and notable adopters, including Matt Damon.

History

Greendimes is a web-based junk mail reduction service founded by Pankaj Shah in 2006. Its parent company Tonic.com completed it's series-A funding in July of 2007 raising $20.5M in venture capital funding from Tudor Ventures. When asked to explain the origins of the division, Greendimes founder Pankaj Shah is quoted as saying: "Everybody gets junk mail, and nobody likes it.”In May of 2007, Greendimes partnered with the National Center For Missing & Exploited Children to provide child ID kits to promote National Missing Children's Day. The company was rebranded as "Mailstopper" for a brief period in 2007, and then rebranded again in October 2008 as "Precycle".

External Links

* DirectMail
* 41Pounds
* Precylce
* Greendimes: A Forest of Profit from the Trees
* Interview with Greendimes CEO Pankaj Shah 
* Customer Reviews of Greendimes  
* Interview with CEO of Greendimes - Pankaj Shah
* List of Junk Mail Reduction Services 
* List of Greendimes Employees