| We've all found our name on a junk mailing list at one | | | | to have your name removed from multiple mailing lists. |
| time or another. It's frustrating to continuously receive | | | | The Direct Marketing Association is one of those |
| unsolicited and unwanted mail that only ends up | | | | organizations. Since it handles mailing lists from |
| becoming landfill. If you're not interested in receiving | | | | hundreds of different companies, you can go to their |
| piles of catalogs and solicitations in your daily mail, you'll | | | | website and request removal. This will keep your |
| be happy to know that this is easily remedied. | | | | name off of their junk mailing lists for five years at |
| One way to remove your name from a mailing list is to | | | | which time you can put in another request. If you |
| go directly to the source. Contact the business or | | | | submit the form online it will cost $5.00. To submit your |
| individual and request your name be deleted from their | | | | request for free, you can send it the old fashioned |
| files. You can do this over the phone, but it will probably | | | | way to the P.O. Box listed on the DMA's website. If |
| better to do this in writing since it's a good idea to have | | | | you'd like to be removed from junk or spam email |
| a paper trail. | | | | mailing lists, you can also do this at the DMA's website. |
| You might also be able to go to the businesses' web | | | | No one wants their mailbox clogged with unwanted |
| site and request removal. Request confirmation that | | | | catalogs and solicitations from banks, credit cards |
| this has been done. If a business continues to send | | | | companies and others. If this is happening to you, you |
| you mail after several requests, you might be able to | | | | can take steps to prevent this from happening. Not |
| file harassment charges, so it pays to keep good | | | | only will you save your home from clutter; you'll protect |
| records. | | | | the environment as well. |
| There are also organizations in which you can register | | | | |