I ordered from a online catalog once. Then I started getting mail catalogs. I wrote telling them I did not want any catalogs mailed to my address. The catalogs kept coming. I e-mailed. Catalogs arrived. I started refusing the catalogs by marking them REFUSED and putting them back in the mailbox. More catalogs. That was about three years ago and today I received a catalog. How do I get through to these people that I do not want a catalog mailed to me? I would have thought that mailing over a dozen catalogs back to them would have caught their attention. Any suggestions?
PS Would it suprise you if I told you this was a “nature friendly” catalog sales company?:mad:
What I do is take the order form and write across it with a fat marker “Please remove my name and address from your mailing list.” That usually works. Then you might try telephoning. If neither works, then I usually just accept it. The purpose of the mail is to give other people the opportunity to try to contact you. If you don’t want to read their message, just toss the mail. You don’t have an absoloute right legally (and in my opinion, morally) not to receive mail at your home.
How to opt out of national mailing lists, from the Direct Marketing Association:
http://www.the-dma.org/cgi/offmailinglistdave
I reduced my junk mail to almost zero by sending it back, but it got tiresome, so I printed up a batch of sticky labels with the words:
Unsolicited mail - please return to sender.
Instruction to sender: please remove my details from your mailing list.
Then it was just a case of slapping a label on anything that arrived and dropping it back in the mail.