[HN Gopher] How to stop USPS junk mail ___________________________________________________________________ How to stop USPS junk mail Author : user3939382 Score : 26 points Date : 2022-06-04 21:54 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (consumer.ftc.gov) (TXT) w3m dump (consumer.ftc.gov) | thenerdhead wrote: | I was looking for this website again for junk mail. It looked so | sketchy the first time, but I'm gonna bite the bullet and see if | this saves me time over the next ten years from having to throw | away junk mail. $2 is worth the experiment. | jrockway wrote: | I did this many years ago. 99.9% of my mail is still junk, just | junk where I have some sort of weaselly pre-existing | relationship with the company sending mail. ("You donated money | to us! Can we have some more!? We spent it all on this | marketing campaign and now it's gone!") | anonymousisme wrote: | I've done this and it makes a big difference, but I still get a | lot of junk from local businesses. Either those businesses are | not part of the DMA, or they are ignoring the opt-out list. I'm | not sure what to do about it. | btrettel wrote: | I've done this as well. Another issue I've noticed is that when | a certain item is set to go to "all" addresses, the mail | carrier will simply give one to everyone until they run out. | This is probably right most of the time. But I would | consistently get junk mail for my neighbor with an apartment | number one higher than mine. | | I recall reporting this to the USPS multiple times without any | effect. The only thing that helped was putting a note inside my | mailbox to check for my neighbor's mail. | thrill wrote: | Probably works just as well as the do not call list. | ghaff wrote: | Honestly, it used to be far more of an issue when going away for | more than one or two weeks at some times of the year resulted in | a mailbox full of stuff--meaning you really had to get your mail | held. These days I find far fewer catalogs--and certainly thick | catalogs--get sent. | | I did get a larger mailbox, mostly for packages. And I still get | a fairly high junk to organizations I do business with to | actually important mail ratio. But I can mostly ignore my mailbox | for a week at a time easily. | slang800 wrote: | As a matter of principle, I am not paying a $2 "processing fee" | to stop people from sending garbage to my mailbox. | | Also, the permanent credit card offer opt-out requires me to | print and send a letter from each address I live at. This is | clearly designed to be as annoying as possible so nobody does it. | gaadd33 wrote: | 1.6 cents per month seems pretty reasonable to solve what would | otherwise just consume some of your time. An ideal world, there | wouldn't be a processing fee but we don't live in that world. | | Aa far as the credit card opt out, you can also freeze your | credit and I believe that has a similar impact since no one can | make unauthorized inquiries. | toomuchtodo wrote: | I've done both and it was worth it. Highly recommended. | | One can also consider a mail processor if you're nomadic or on | the road often; you give out that address, pay $10-$20/month | for the service, and they dispose of the junk mail and scan in | any mail of value. | tablespoon wrote: | > As a matter of principle, I am not paying a $2 "processing | fee" to stop people from sending garbage to my mailbox. | | I feel like that must be relatively new. I swear I used that | site and I'm pretty sure I didn't have to pay a fee. | | I bet they added it to discourage people from going through | with the process. | ceejayoz wrote: | A $1 authorized charge would work for a little bit of "real | person here" verification, but I'd imagine the $2 is to | discourage auto-filling an entire town's worth of people via | a script; all you'd need is, say, a voter registration list | to get the necessary info of name and address. | ceejayoz wrote: | I kinda love that they're offering PayPal Credit as a payment | option. A six month loan for a $2 purchase? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-06-04 23:00 UTC)