Anyone have any knowledge of u.s. postal service laws regarding junk mail? anyway to block it?

Has there ever been a wide effort to get junk mail stopped? I practically fill up a garbage bag of junk ads, credit card offers etc. every few days.

Everyone is talking about going %26quot;green%26quot; but no one ever mentions all this crap we are bombarded with everyday, wasted paper.

Just wondering if there%26#039;s ever been an effort to stop it all? thanks

Anyone have any knowledge of u.s. postal service laws regarding junk mail? anyway to block it?

Yes, there are ways to help stop it.

http://www.junkmailstopper.com/

http://www.obviously.com/junkmail/

Those two sites have detailed information that will help you.

Anyone have any knowledge of u.s. postal service laws regarding junk mail? anyway to block it?

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Unfortunately, there is not a Do Not Mail registry. Occasionally, junk mail will have fine print that will inform you how to remove yourself from their mailing lists. Recycle all junk mail if at all possible and here is a petition that could use your support.

www.ForestEthics.org/DoNotMail|||For the most part, if someone%26#039;s willing to pay the postage and has a correct address on it, the Postal Service will try to deliver it.

The most effective approach is to try to stop people from mailing you in the first place. There are a couple generic lists that you want to be on:

https://www.optoutprescreen.com/

https://www.dmachoice.org/MPS/

Anything that comes with your address actually written on it, is either covered by one of the above lists, or you need to contact the sender specifically and ask them to stop mailing you. You pretty much need to contact every organization you know or that knows about you and tell them to not send you mail and to not sell or rent your name to others. Yes, this can be a pain.

If it%26#039;s just addressed %26quot;Postal Customer%26quot; or %26quot;Resident%26quot; and doesn%26#039;t actually include your address, they paid the Post Office to deliver to every address on the route that you%26#039;re on, so even if you contact the company sending it they can%26#039;t take you off the list.

If a mailer won%26#039;t stop, fill out Form 1500 and attach it to the mail and bring it to a Post Office or mail it to the address on the form. It%26#039;s designed for offensive material, and the courts have decided that *you* get to pick what%26#039;s offensive. The form is available at larger post offices and at http://www.usps.gov/.

Any mail you get in the meantime, feel free to simply not accept. Mark it %26quot;Refused%26quot; and give it back to the Postal Service. The Post Office probably recycles it. See http://www.refuseyourmail.info/ for more information. I refuse all my junk mail.

There are some online subscription services that try to automate this process somewhat and act as your agent in getting off of the lists that you want to get off of, but they%26#039;re usually not free. They may take less time, though. I haven%26#039;t really looked into them much.