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I've opted out of most junk mail. There are a few places that do not honor that request. If its addressed to you the USPS will deliver it.

My biggest issue since opting out of most things is that the postal carrier will still deliver the grocery coupons, coupon packages addressed to a different address. I've complained so many times, USPS just stuffs them in and doesn't care.

One thing you cannot opt out of is Every Door Delivery Mail from USPS. USPS allows advertisers, typically local folks, to buy delivery to an entire route and not be required to individually address the mail items.

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Being overrun with junk mail addressed to the previous 2 tenants, can one opt out for others no longer on the address? It seems none of the credit agencies figured these folks no longer live here.

USPS said they couldn’t do anything for Standard mail.

They just don't care enough to fix their mailing lists. The dead receive a lot of mail.

I've never tried to do an opt-out for someone else. A few places like dmachoice.org have web forms but I made a lot of phone calls.

There are a couple of local advertisers that are going to send their stuff no matter what I think. I do still get a small amount of junk.

You could try crossing through the address, writing 'no longer at this address, return to sender' on it and dropping it in the out-going mail.

I've been writing "Return to sender, recipient no longer lives at address" on those pieces of mail and re-depositing them in the mailbox. I've been getting less and less of the previous tenants' mail. I think I usually only get one piece a week now.

I do this too, sometimes I put it in a drop box so as to not piss off my carrier. It works eventually.

Can I opt out for someone else? I've owned my house for 11 years after buying it at an estate auction and I still receive mail addressed to the prior (deceased) occupant. It's ridiculous.

When I signed up here -> https://www.dmachoice.org, it gave me the option for other names at my address. For $2, it might be worth trying. There is even a "register the deceased" link.

Thanks. I did this, we'll see if it works. It's one thing to get junk mail for me, it's another thing to still be receiving credit card offers for a dead man. It makes me wonder how much of the annual credit card fraud is due to things like this and how often deceased person's identities are stolen for fraudulent purposes.

In my experience, even after you opt-out it takes months for the changes to actually happen.

Just print terms and conditions on your mailbox how it's allowed to be used and what is allowed to be put inside. By using your box the company accepts the the terms of course :)

Care sharing how exactly did you opt out?

Mails addressed at "resident at ..." drive me crazy.

Just wondered the same and found this: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0262-stopping-unsolici...

And I found about this http://www.dmaconsumers.org/offmailinglist.html

This took care of a lot of it: https://www.dmachoice.org

I think this one is for the grocery coupons: https://www.valassis.com/opt-out/

I had to make a lot of phone calls and ask to be taken off the list.

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