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If you dislike finding your mailbox stuffed with offers for credit cards, you’re likely enjoying one consequence of the economy’s current travails. The credit crunch has brought a sharp decline in the number of offers mailed out by credit-card companies, according to a Synovate report.

In the first quarter of this year, the number of such solicitations received by U.S. households was down 18 percent from the figure for first-quarter 2007 — though at 1.13 billion mailings, it still entailed felling whole forests.

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