Stop Consumer Reports Promotional Mail
Consumer Reports separates postal promotions, fundraising solicitations and service messages. Its Choice / Opt-Out instructions publish online preferences, written-request addresses and 1-800-333-0663. Stopping magazine offers is not the same as cancelling a paid print membership.
Choose postal promotions, not email unsubscribe
The official Choice / Opt-Out page gives a postal-promotional preference and lists 1-800-333-0663. It also provides a written route: Consumer Reports, Attn: Opt Out Preference Center, PO Box 2109, Harlan, IA 51593.
For promotional paper mail, include your full name, street address and the types of offers you no longer want. You can request a preference even when the organization received your address from a third party; do not assume a paid membership is required to ask for removal.
Check each publication's preference
The Direct Mail Preferences instructions distinguish offers from Consumer Reports magazine and Consumer Reports On Health. Non-members are directed to separate publication opt-outs. Members have account-based instructions for other mailing preferences.
Use the publication name printed on your piece. Changing an On Health offer preference does not establish that every Consumer Reports marketing category was changed. If you want both stopped, ask for both explicitly and keep the confirmation for each selection.
Fundraising has a different written address
Choice / Opt-Out separately lists Consumer Reports Fundraising Solicitations, PO Box 96552, Washington, DC 20090-6552. The same published phone number is an alternative. Specify postal fundraising and any independent sharing preference you want changed.
Do not send a fundraising request to a renewal-payment address simply because both appeared in the envelope. Keep the appeal title, recipient spelling and printed identifier so support can tell which list generated the letter.
A draft for promotional mail
Adapt the categories before sending. For a fundraising appeal, change the first sentence and use its published route rather than assuming this promotion-specific draft covers it.
Please stop Consumer Reports promotional postal mail for [name as printed] at [full mailing address, including unit and ZIP code]. The unwanted offers concern [Consumer Reports magazine, On Health or other printed offer]. The label shows [customer or mailing code, if present]. Please also record that I do not want this postal contact information shared for third-party marketing. Please confirm the categories updated. This does not cancel a paid magazine, membership or renewal setting.
Preserve the subscription you actually want
The Consumer Reports privacy policy explains that service communications can remain, including account, order, renewal or expiration and payment-card notices. A remaining paid issue or necessary account notice is not proof that promotional removal failed. Check the message before filing another request.
It allows up to eight weeks for postal preferences, including prepared fundraising communications, to take effect. Save the request date and category selected. After that allowance, send support the specific new offer and ask which record generated it.
Published online forms can change or present access checks. Use the official instructions yourself, or the verified phone and written alternatives. A browser advertising switch and an email unsubscribe are not confirmations of postal suppression.
Keep the offer separate from the paid issue
Identify the publication and the kind of letter, then choose the relevant Consumer Reports preference yourself. Do not cancel a membership just to stop marketing.
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