Unsubscribe from postal mail
There's no single "do not mail" switch — but a handful of free forms will clear out most of what lands in your mailbox. Here's the order to do them in.
No accounts, no paywalls, no email required.
Five forms that cut the most mail
These lists feed thousands of mailers at once. Filling them out takes about 20 minutes total and stops a large share of what you receive.
DMA Choice
The Data & Marketing Association is a trade organization that shares your mailing address with its member corporations.
Opt out
Pre-Screen Credit Offers
Equifax, Experian, Innovis, and TransUnion mail you credit and insurance offers.
Stop credit offers
Save.com Delivery Options
If you receive coupon books in the mail, they're likely from Save.com.
Reduce coupon mailers
National Do Not Mail List
DirectMail.com manages this list covering Amazon, Best Buy, LeafFilter, Vantage Cruises, AARP, and more.
Unsubscribe from direct mail
Share Local Media
This list covers e-commerce brands like Casper, Grubhub, Instacart, HelloFresh, and Blue Apron.
Reduce consumer brand mailersOpt out of the senders still writing to you
The lists in step 1 only cover their own members. Plenty of mail comes from senders who were never on them — nonprofits, political campaigns, religious organizations, local businesses. Those you handle one at a time. The senders below have published a form that does it.
For the senders with no opt-out form
Some senders never built one. They're still required by law to honor a request to delete your personal information — you just have to file it through their privacy portal.
Postal acronyms
What do those codes on your mail mean?
- ECRWSSEDDM
- Extended Carrier Route Walking Sequence Saturation — Every Door Direct Mail
- ECRLOT
- Enhanced Carrier Route Line of Travel
- ECRWSH
- Enhanced Carrier Route Walk Sequence High Density
These codes mean the mailer bought a route, not your name. Address-level opt-outs won't stop them — that mail is addressed to the route itself.
Learn more
Sender-by-sender walkthroughs, notes on how the mail system actually works, and what we've learned trying to waste less.
Stop a specific sender
Step-by-step opt-outs, with what to expect afterward.
- How to unsubscribe from postal mail
- How to stop mail from the Southern Poverty Law Center
- Jump ship on Royal Caribbean's junk mail
- Stop catalogs from Harry & David and other 1-800-Flowers brands
- How to unsubscribe from Save.com, RedPlum, and RetailMeNot
- Two forms every Costco member should complete
- How to stop junk mail from T-Mobile
- Getting Xfinity and Comcast to stop sending you mail
- Unsubscribe from the Woman Within print catalog
How the mail works
The postal service, the paper trail, and the codes on your mail.
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- The hidden cost of the postal mail network
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- The dirty truth about window envelopes
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- A sneak peek at the Postal Service's new electric vehicles
- Where do new postal stamp ideas come from?
- New stamp: Red Fox
- 90% of mail delivered on-time this holiday season
Wasting less, generally
What else we've tried in the name of a lighter footprint.
- Redefining gifting: zero-waste ideas for the eco-conscious
- Zero waste New Year's resolutions
- Climate tech roundup: essential tools for the conscious consumer
- The challenges of living an eco-friendly life with kids
- How to fill a community fridge
- How paying with cash benefits your local economy
- A tour of Culdesac, the car-free community in Tempe, Arizona
- Buying, and then selling, a plug-in hybrid on Carvana
- Will these beautiful window A/C units help fight climate change?
Received junk mail from a sender not listed here?
Tell us who it is. Suggestions with the most votes get researched and added to the directory.