Remove your name from national mailing lists
To remove your name and address from most national mailing lists, contact:
Direct Marketing Association
Mail Preference Service Box 643
Carmel, NY 10512
www.dmachoice.org
You should begin to see results a few months after writing. Compliance with DMA requests is not mandatory, however, and you will continue to receive mail from non-DMA members.
Contact the companies that send you junk mail
Contact the customer service departments of the companies that send you unwanted mail, and ask that they remove you from their mailing list. Mailing lists are often sold or rented to other organizations, so, you may have to call the companies first to ask where they got your information.
If you read the code on your mailing label, the company will be able to tell you the supplier of your name. Often, this is a list broker, a company that specializes in selling mailing lists, but it also may be an individual company that rented or sold their membership or marketing list. You will need to call that company and ask that your name be removed from its list.
Contact all organizations/companies that you currently deal with through the mail, and ask them not to rent or share your name. Your credit card company, charities and other non-profit groups to which you send money, all potentially may rent or sell their lists to unrelated companies.
Opt out of credit bureau mailing lists
Credit reporting agencies allow businesses to prescreen your credit report to determine if they want to send you a credit card offer. You have the right to not have your credit report prescreened by other companies. The national credit bureaus have set up a toll-free number so that you may opt out of pre-approved credit card offers with just one phone call. Call 1-888-5OPT-OUT (1-888-567-8688) for more information.