Getting your player ready...
Finally, a benefit to the credit crunch: We’re getting fewer junk-mail solicitations from credit-card companies.
U.S households got 372.4 million credit-card offers in the mail during the first three months of 2009, according to . While that’s more than the nation’s total population, it’s a 67 percent drop from the first quarter of 2008.
The dropoff comes as the credit- card industry tries to roll back the risk on its books.
