wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) (03/02/84)
As a note of general interest, there is an address to contact to have your name removed from mailing lists. Contact: Direct Mail Marketing Association 6 E. 43rd St. New York, N. Y. 10017 Attention: Mail Preference Service I suppose you could also get your address put on certain lists if you wanted. This is sort of in answer to several queries I have seen on the net. T. C. Wheeler
black@uw-beaver (Andrew P. Black) (03/09/84)
Yes, the Direct Mail Marketing Association will take you off of their
lists. And for a month or so you will not get so much junk mail. But
after that, it will restart again.
Why? Because every couple of months, most direct mail companies submit
their lists of addresses to the US post Office to be "checked" and put
into Carrier Route order. In the process, the USPS will put your
address BACK ON THE LIST. You may not believe it, but my wife has just
gone through a three month paper chase with our Senator and the USPS
and I'm right. The USPS does not give out your name, but so what - the
junk is just addresses to "Resident".
One thing you can do is simply mark your mail "Refused" and leave it in
your mail box. Provided it isn't registered or certified etc., the
postal carrier has to take it away. If it's junk, they don't send it
back, just destroy it (I bet they don't even recycle it). But
currently this is the only way you have of protesting about the action
of the Post Office. Perhaps if enough people do this, the USPS will
stop giving out addresses.
Andrew Black