Mail guides
Neighborhood advertising
Identify who sends local flyers and address-based campaigns.
Ask about a sponsored calendar mailing
Send your request to the organization that chose who received the calendar. That may not be the name printed largest. Ask about this annual promotional calendar only, and say which other local mail you want to keep receiving.
Reduce an unsolicited neighborhood magazine
Write to the publisher, not the advertisers inside. First check whether the magazine is free or paid. If it is free and you never asked for it, ask the publisher to end delivery to your address. If it is paid, find out who in the household holds the subscription before you ask for anything.
Tell route-wide advertising from a named mailing list
Read the address block first. A piece addressed to a person's name calls for a request about that name. A piece addressed to Current Resident or Postal Customer may have gone to a whole carrier route, so the useful request asks the advertiser to leave your delivery address out. USPS describes Every Door Direct Mail as targeting carrier routes without requiring an individual named list.
Ask an EDDM advertiser to leave out your address
Contact the business behind the specific Every Door Direct Mail campaign you want to stop. USPS’s EDDM Retail instructions tell mailers to put addresses that requested removal in the Do Not Deliver Address column on their facing slips. That request applies to the advertiser’s mailing, not every company using the route.
Check how a free newspaper reaches your home
Check where the paper landed and whether it carries postage. A paper in your mailbox with postage markings or a printed address probably came by mail, so write to the publisher's circulation contact. A paper left on a driveway or doorstep with no postage may come from a distribution contractor, so look for that contractor's name or ask the publisher who delivers it.
Find a local advertiser when a flyer has few details
Start with the business name, the product or service, and any town or neighborhood printed on the flyer. Search for that business yourself instead of relying on a link, QR code or phone number on the piece. A postage permit or route marking shows how the flyer was mailed. It does not identify the advertiser, so use the advertised business to decide who to contact.
Can a no-junk-mail sticker stop USPS advertising?
Do not rely on a mailbox sticker as a postal opt-out request. Contact the sender of an unwanted advertisement and check whether an established program covers that kind of mail. A message displayed at your mailbox does not tell an advertiser which marketing record or campaign you want changed.
Compare repeat postcards from a restaurant opening
A second restaurant-opening postcard may repeat the campaign you already asked about, but the arrival date alone cannot tell you when it was prepared. Compare the pieces, then ask the campaign contact whether the later card belongs to an existing batch or a separate mailing.