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from companies and organizations
with which you don’t have a business
relationship:
For example, catalogs, magazine
offers, donation requests, and retail
promotions.
Not covered mail:
• Transactional mail: Invoices, bills,
statements, and notices
• Prescreened offers for credit or
insurance.
• Political mailings are exempt.
• Mailings addressed to “current
resident”: Contact your local Post Office
for assistance in being removed from
these mailings.
• Customer or donor mail for those
companies or nonprofits that you have
purchased from, subscribed to, or
donated to in the past.
• Companies or organizations that don’t
subscribe to DMAchoice will not receive
your suppression request.
Resident mailings, or also called Every
Door Direct Mail (EDDM), is provided by
the United States Postal Service (USPS)
and local companies the USPS partners
with to deliver mail to local zip codes.
code.
How can I stop mail from being sent to a
deceased individual?
To prevent direct mail from being sent
to a deceased individual, you may
register online DMAchoice for free for
the Deceased Do Not Contact List. You
may also mail in your request along with
$1 to:
Deceased Do Not Contact
Consumer Preferences
PO Box 900
Cos Cob, CT 06807
How can I stop mail from being sent to a
dependent in my care?
To prevent direct mail from being sent to
a person in your care, you may register
for the Do Not Contact for Caretakers
List. The information on this list is updated
and sent to subscribing companies each
month. You should see a decrease in
mail within three months of registration.
Once you register with DMAchoice,
you can keep a total of 5 separate
mailing addresses in your profile. You
can update and manage your mail
preferences as often as you like.
What if I’ve changed my name?
Once you register with DMAchoice,
you can manage mail addressed to
5 different variations of your name by
adding them to your profile. You can
update your personal information,
including these name variations, as
often as you like.
if you believe a direct marketing
You can contact your local Post Office
to see if they will honor your request to
opt out, but since this is for “every door”
locally, the local Post Office cannot
process that request easily since the
local carrier would have to extract your
mail piece from the prepared stack of
mailings for the EDDM going to your zip promotion or practice is questionable
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