Due to the changes in the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act, you can now be removed from credit card mailing lists by making a toll-free call. This call can remove your name from four major credit bureaus' mailing lists for two years.
When you call, you will need to confirm your identity, a recording will ask for personal information, including your Social Security Number (which they already have).
You can also request a form that will wipe your name PERMANENTLY from their mailing lists if you want.
The National Waste Prevention Coalition states that stopping these mailings can really make a difference. If 500,000 people took advantage of the law, more than 12 million fewer pieces of mail would be sent in one year alone.
Save a forest; call any one of the following numbers to be removed:
- Experian 800-353-0809
- Trans Union 888-5OPT OUT (888-567-8688)
Here are some more tips to help you reduce junk mail.
- Write to:
Direct Marketing Association
P.O. Box 9009
Farmingdale, NY 11735-9008
Ask them to take your name off unwanted mailing lists. Please provide them with all variations of the name under which you have been receiving junk mail. This process could take a few months so please, be patient! OCRRA suggest you keep a copy of the information and repeat the process every few years or so. This will remove your name from any new mailing lists.
- Contact the companies that have sent you unwanted mail and tell them to remove your name from their mailing lists. Many of them have 1-800 numbers!
- Prevent the unwanted mail in the first place.
If you can prevent direct mailers from putting you on their mailing list, this will reduce the amount of unwanted mail received. Here are a few suggestions:
- Don’t sign up for information that you don’t really want.
- If you subscribe to a magazine, book club or other publication, call or write to tell them not to give your name to other companies.
Click here for information on reducing business junk mail
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