How to Remove Your Name & Address From Junk Mailers
- 1). Contact the DMA (Direct Marketing Association). Register your name with the Mail Preference Service to have your name and address listed on a mailer that goes to junk mail companies. Your information will be added to a list of names to be removed from their junk mail lists. Note that this list does not go to all junk mail vendors, and therefore some will not receive your request for removal.
- 2). Visit OptOutPrescreen.com to sign the Permanent Opt-Out form online to have your name and address permanently removed from credit card and other credit offers. Ensure that you have your telephone number, date of birth, Social Security number and address available when filling out this form.
- 3). Contact list brokers directly to have your name removed from their pooled junk mail lists. The three most common list brokers that send junk mail are MetroMail Corporation, R.L. Polk & Company, Database America and Acxiom U.S.
- 4). Contact prizes and sweepstakes brokers such as Publisher's Clearing House via their removal line at 800-645-9242 to have your name removed from their sweepstakes database. Contact the Readers Digest Sweepstakes at 800-310-6261 to have your name removed from their prize and sweepstakes junk mail lists.
- 5). Write "Do not send junk mail" or "Do not rent, sell or trade my information" on warranty cards that you fill out for purchases. Omit the warranty card altogether and read the fine print on the warranty information to see if the card needs to be filled out at all.
- 6). Write "Return to sender,rRefused" on junk mail that has return service requested, forwarding service requested, address service requested or change service requested listed on the front of the packaging.
- 7). Contact catalogs, charities and contests directly via the opt out number listed on the printed material. Contact their customer service line if there is not an opt out line listed on the junk mail itself.