Stop USO Fundraising Mail
USO's published postal opt-out goes to info@uso.org or its Donor Services mailing address. Say that you want paper fundraising appeals stopped. Its online email-unsubscribe form is not a substitute for identifying the name and street address on your envelope.
Use the postal instruction, not email preferences
The current USO privacy policy names info@uso.org for offline-contact and marketing opt-outs. For a written letter, it lists USO, Attention: Donor Services, P.O. Box 96860, Washington, DC 20090-6322.
The offline-contact instruction asks for your full name, mailing address and telephone number. Its sharing instruction asks for your full name and mailing address. Include the details needed for the particular request; do not send a card number or military record to explain an unwanted appeal.
Ask for two changes if you want both
USO describes list rentals and exchanges for fundraising or promotional purposes. You can ask it to stop its own paper appeals and separately exclude your information from future third-party marketing sharing. Put both instructions in the message rather than using the single word unsubscribe.
If another organization has already mailed you, keep that envelope too. A USO sharing change does not prove the other sender updated a record it already holds. Contact that sender through its own published route if its mail is also unwanted.
A request for paper appeals and sharing
Adapt this draft before sending it to the published contact. Omit the sharing sentence if you only want USO's own paper mail stopped.
Please stop USO paper fundraising and promotional mail addressed to [name as printed] at [full mailing address, including unit and ZIP code]. My telephone number for your offline-contact request is [phone number]. The label shows [mailing or donor code, if present]. Please also exclude my information from future third-party fundraising or marketing list rentals and exchanges. I am not asking to cancel a recurring gift or lose necessary donation records. Please confirm the postal and sharing preferences recorded. Thank you.
Check every distinct label
A spouse's name, former surname or old apartment number can point to a separate record. List the unwanted labels individually and ask which ones the team found. Do not assume changing your current donor profile also finds an older prospect record.
Keep the envelope with your sent message and reply. If mail continues after the team's stated allowance, compare the new code and spelling with the original. That gives a follow-up something specific to investigate.
Keep a mail preference narrower than data deletion
The policy also describes broader privacy-rights requests and identity verification. Those procedures are not a guaranteed postal-delivery deadline. Start with the published communications opt-out when the problem is paper appeals, and ask how much mail may already be prepared.
Say which communications you still want, such as receipts or requested replies. Volunteer services have a separate policy, and changing donor mail should not be used as an instruction to leave a volunteer program. No removal or sharing change is complete merely because a message was sent.
Use the label to identify the USO record
Keep the printed name, address and mailing code together when making the request yourself through USO.
Try one request free