Stop Direct Relief Paper Mail
Direct Relief's privacy page includes a specific physical-mail choice, separate from email. Use that choice or its published privacy contact to identify the postal record receiving appeals. You do not need a broad data-deletion request just to ask for no fundraising envelopes.
Choose the physical-mail checkbox
The form on the Direct Relief privacy policy page has distinct choices labeled Do not contact me via physical mail and Do not contact me via email. Select the one for paper if email updates are still welcome.
The public form also displays Name, Email, and Questions or Additional Comments fields. Use the comments to explain the unwanted paper record and its printed mailing address if needed. Complete any human verification yourself on the provider's page. This guide has not submitted the form or verified a completed preference change.
Use the published privacy contact instead if needed
The same policy publishes privacy@directrelief.org for the Data Protection Officer. Its written address is Direct Relief, Attn: Data Protection Officer, 6100 Wallace Becknell Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93117, USA.
Specify postal fundraising and promotional mail. If the name on the envelope differs from the name associated with your email, give the printed version too. Do not assume the form's email field alone identifies a donor or prospect record attached to a street address.
A narrow paper-mail request
Adapt this for the published email or the form's comments. The copied draft sends nothing; you decide which provider route to use.
Please stop Direct Relief paper fundraising and promotional mail addressed to [name as printed] at [full mailing address, including unit and ZIP code]. The label shows [donor or mailing code, if present]. This is a physical-mail preference, not a request to change my email choices, cancel donations or delete all personal information. Please keep necessary receipts and requested replies. Please confirm the postal record and preference updated. Thank you.
Do not confuse paper preferences with other privacy controls
The policy discusses a separate data-subject rights process for broader requests. That is not the physical-mail checkbox. Cookie settings, advertising choices and donor-recognition preferences also concern different uses of information; changing them does not confirm that fundraising envelopes will stop.
A no-marketing request can still leave necessary receipts or replies. Keeping a suppression record can help the organization remember not to contact an address. That is different from promising every record will disappear, and it should not be described as cancellation of a recurring gift.
Follow up using the new envelope, not a second broad request
Save the label, request date and confirmation. Ask Direct Relief how much paper mail may already be prepared. This guide does not set a delivery deadline. A form acknowledgment only shows receipt unless the reply also confirms the postal preference.
If another appeal arrives later, compare its name, address and code with the record you supplied. Send those differences to the same published contact so the team can look for a duplicate. Avoid attaching medical details, banking records or documents unrelated to locating the unwanted mailing.
Use the printed address in your request
Keep a readable label, then make the preference request yourself on Direct Relief's site or through its published contact.
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