Stop Oxfam America Mailing-List Sharing

Oxfam America gives a specific email route for opting out of charitable mailing-list sharing: donorinfo@oxfamamerica.org. Send your exact name and address and request no future use in those list exchanges. This is not a published universal postal unsubscribe.

Use the charitable-sharing instruction

Oxfam America's privacy policy describes arrangements allowing other charities or third-party aggregators to write to supporters. For exclusion from that use, it asks for the exact name and address in an email to donorinfo@oxfamamerica.org.

Use the record you want excluded, including a unit and ZIP code. If your name appears differently on separate pieces, explain the variations in the same request. Do not send an unexplained stack of unrelated charity mail as though all those addresses came from Oxfam.

Please exclude [name as printed] at [full mailing address, including unit and ZIP code] from future Oxfam America charitable mailing-list sharing or exchange with other organizations and third-party aggregators.

Please confirm the prospective sharing preference recorded for this name and address. This is not a request to cancel a donation or erase all donor information.

If you also want Oxfam's own paper appeals stopped

State that as a separate request to the donor contact and ask what postal preference it can record. The cited sharing instruction does not itself establish a dedicated opt-out from every Oxfam paper mailing. A response saying do not share does not answer whether Oxfam's own appeals were stopped.

Keep donation receipts or other necessary messages distinct if you still support the organization. If your intended change is a gift cancellation, ask about that separately and verify it. Neither a sharing preference nor a communications reply is proof that a recurring payment ended.

This guide does not promise that an app can enforce the change. A clear direct message and a reply identifying the record are more informative than assuming all lists disappeared when an email was sent.

The email preference page has a different purpose

The policy separately provides an email unsubscribe route. That option identifies inbox communications, not necessarily a street-address sharing record. If you still want online updates, specify that you are changing postal sharing only.

The policy's statement about not selling email addresses for commercial marketing should not be read as a ban on the charitable sharing it describes separately. Focus your request on the stated use rather than asking the team to resolve a perceived contradiction between two different categories.

These instructions concern Oxfam America. Another Oxfam organization in a different country may have its own policy and donor records. Match the sender on the piece before using the U.S. contact.

Keep follow-up requests tied to evidence

Save the date and the reply identifying the future-sharing choice. That choice does not recall an address already held by another organization. If a new appeal arrives, use that sender's published contact to request its own postal removal.

Do not infer where a charity obtained your address solely from when its appeal arrived. Keep the new mailing label and ask the sender what record it used. If it contains a different spelling or unit, include that fact in the follow-up rather than claiming that Oxfam ignored a preference without evidence.

Keep a label for the actual sender

Photograph the organization name and recipient address on unwanted mail. Make Oxfam sharing requests yourself and contact each different sender separately.

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