How to Stop Habitat for Humanity Mail
Habitat for Humanity International has a paper-mail preference form. Choose no mailings, or a smaller annual schedule, and make a separate choice about sharing your name. Keep the reply card: the form requires its ID number.
Use the postal form, not email preferences
Open Habitat's Mailing preferences form. It offers no mailings or one, two or four contribution appeals a year. Its separate “Do not share” choice concerns use of your name by other organizations.
The required ID is a 10 to 13 digit number at the bottom right of the reply device. The form also asks for your name and mailing address. Copy the printed record rather than substituting a nickname. An apartment or unit number matters when several households use the same building address.
Decide which outcome you want before filling anything in. If you only want one appeal each year, that is different from stopping paper appeals. Likewise, excluding your name from sharing is not a substitute for changing Habitat's own mail preference. Check both choices when both are your intention.
No reply card or ID? Use the published contact
The International privacy policy lists 1-800-422-4828 and privacymanager@habitat.org for communication preferences. Its written route is Data Privacy Manager, Habitat for Humanity International, 285 Peachtree Center Ave NE #2700, Atlanta, GA 30303.
If the ID is missing or the form does not work, use that contact rather than inventing a number. Explain which appeal arrived and ask what information will identify the record. You do not need to send a bank statement or card number to describe a mailing label.
Please stop postal fundraising appeals from Habitat for Humanity International to [name and complete address as printed]. My mailing ID is [ID, if available].
Please also exclude this record from sharing with other organizations for communications. This request does not change my donations. Please confirm the preferences recorded, including any duplicate label versions I provide.
A local Habitat may keep its own records
Habitat's policy says U.S. and Canadian affiliates are separate legal entities responsible for their own data practices. Look at the full sender name, not just the Habitat logo. For a local appeal, use that affiliate's published contact; do not assume the International form changes its list.
Keep local and national responses in separate notes. This makes follow-up much clearer if one sender stops and the other keeps mailing. Include a recent label with the relevant request, not a bundle of unrelated organizations' envelopes.
Keep a record of what changed
Save the request date, the selected schedule and any response. Ask for the applicable postal processing window instead of expecting an email unsubscribe to stop a prepared mailing immediately. Do not cancel a recurring gift or delete an account merely to request less paper.
If another appeal arrives, compare its name, address and ID with the original. A different version is worth pointing out in your follow-up. Our charity-mail guide explains how to describe duplicates without sharing unnecessary payment information.
Does the appeal name a different organization?
Check the sender and address on the actual piece. A national preference does not cover every local Habitat affiliate. For other unwanted mail, a clear photo helps us prepare a sender-specific request. Your first request is free.
Try one request free