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Address Requests
You may be initiating junk mail without realizing it when you sign up for a service, order from a catalog, or enter a sweepstakes. Look for a check box on forms that entitles the privacy of your personal information. If you don’t see one, write upon the form, “Do not sell my personal information;” you have the right to tell services not to sell your name or send you promotional materials.
Catalogue and Magazine Offers
Calling or writing a letter to the parent company can stop offers from catalogs and magazines that you don’t want anymore. Contact information is located inside these mailings, usually on the table of contents page.
Abacus is an alliance of catalogue publishing companies. Abacus members routinely swap customer information. To get off of these mailing lists write:
Abacus, Inc.
P.O. Box 1478
Broomfield, Colorado 80038
If you do want to receive a particular catalog, but not as frequently as they send it, you may request to receive the catalog less frequently.
Catalog Choice is a free service that allows you to decide what gets in your mailbox. Use it to reduce your mailbox clutter, while helping save natural resources. For more information, or to sign up click here
Check Writing
On the bottom of checks made out to magazines, catalogs or charities, etc., write, " Do not sell my personal information."
Company Profiles
Companies that you do business with are responsible for much of the junk mail you receive. You may have to contact each of them individually and request that they stop sending you promotional mail. Look on the content of the mailings you receive for their contact information.
Junk Mail
You can call or write the following organizations to reduce junk mail. Here are their names and contact information:
Acxiom U.S.
877.774.2094
ADVO
888.241.6760
ADVO Consumer Assistance
P.O. Box 249
Winsor CT 06095
Mail ShopWise™ and Missing Children ads. ADVO claims to be the single largest private customer of the US Postal Service.
America Online
800.827.6364
Computer CD disk offers
Database America
Compilation Department
470 Chestnut Ridge Road
Woodcliff, New Jersey 07677
Direct Marketing Association
Mail Preference Service
P.O. Box 9008
Farmingdale, NY 11735-9008
Direct Marketing Association (DMA)
Mail Preference Service
P.O. Box 282
Carmel, NY 10512
DMA is a trade association of businesses who advertise their products and services directly to consumers by mail.
There is a $1 fee to cover the costs of this service. When writing them, be sure to list all variations of your name (e.g. Snow White, S. White, Snow M. White, etc.). Removal of your information takes approximately 90 days to go into effect.
Dun & Bradstreet
Customer Service
899 Eaton Avenue
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18025
Experian Consumer Services
402.458.5247
removes your name from coupons, flyers, and catalogues.
GreenDimes, Inc.
480 Lytton Ave
Suite 8
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Register online
$15 per name to join
Greendimes.com also plants trees in your name
Harte Hanks
800.422.4116
Circulation
C/O Pennysaver
2830 Orbiter Street
Brea, CA 92821
Sends a wide variety of coupons and ads throughout the country, including Penny Savers.
Metromail Corporation
List Maintenance
901 West Bond
Lincoln, Nebraska 68521
Opt-out
888.567.8688
Opt out of pre-approved credit card mailing offers by calling to have your name removed from direct marketing lists. You should update every two years.
Publisher's Clearinghouse
1.800.645.9242
Sends sweepstakes promotions.
Readers Digest Sweepstakes
1.800.310.6261
Reader's Digest
P.O. Box 50005
Prescott, Arizona 86301-5005
R.L. Polk & Co. / Name Deletion File
List Compilation Development
26955 Northwestern Highway
Southfield, Michigan 48034-4716
Valpak
800.237.6266
Val-Pak Coupons
8605 Largo Lakes Drive
Largo, FL 33773
Sends regular mailings of coupons.
41pounds.org
298 W. Saratoga
Ferndale, MI 48220
866.417.4141
Register online
$41 to join for five years of reduced junk mail
More than 1/3 of your fee is donated to community and environmental organizations.
Along with reducing the strain on environmental resources by eliminating junk mail, as consumers we must also purchase goods created from recycled materials in order to make recycling a complete loop.
Phone Books
Who needs so many? Call to stop receiving them:
DEX
1.800.422.1234 (choose option 4, then option2)
published by R.H. Donnelley
Verizon
1.800.888-8448 (choose option 2)
published by Idearc Media
Yellow Book
1.800.YB.Yello (1.800.929.3556 choose option 2)
published by R.H. Donnelley
Yellow Pages Goes Green
Here is a site that allows you to sign up and stop the delivery of unsolicited telephone books for free!
http://www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org/
Post-consumer paper
Post-consumer paper means that at least 30% of the paper is made from fibers that were salvaged from a previous paper product. Specifically look for and use paper products that have post-consumer recycled content. If you can’t find these papers in your favorite stores, request them.
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