How to stop junk mail?
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Anonymous
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I manage my parent’s mail at their condo near me. My parents are gone 6 months out of the year. I try to make it over once a week to get the mail, but that’s enough time that the mail fills the entire little steel mailbox. Mailman leaves angry letters on their door about not picking up their mail, which obviously lets everyone know that their condo is vacant.
How can I get the mailman to stop leaving junk mail? Particularly the newspaper type ads as those are huge. I’ve put their address on the no junk mail registry and unsubscribed them from everything. A lot of the junk mail is to the old owners and my parents have lived there for a few years even. Is there a way to just shut off a mailbox when they’re gone? They do sometimes receive legitimate mail such as bills, but it’s rare. |
Anonymous
| Stop the mail. They can hold it at the post office and you can pick it up there. |
Anonymous
| For the old owners, write "Not at this address" and leave it in the box/put it in the mailbox (whatever method they use for outgoing mail). also maybe stick a note in the mailbox telling the mail carrier the situation and ask that notes not be left on the outside of the box. |
Anonymous
I don't want the "mail" held. I just don't want the junk anymore. It's an excessive amount of ads. |
Anonymous
| You can't stop those newspaper type ads. They get delivered regardless of the recipient. |
Anonymous
| Could you ask a kindly neighbor to pick up the mail for you? Give them a big bag and say you'll be by every other week to collect it. Maybe thank them with gift cards or something. |
Anonymous
It's a small steel lock box. It's about 1/3 the size of my sfh mailbox, so that's why it fills up so easily with all the newspaper junk ads. I filled out the forms to stop junk mail and they're on the do not mail list. Doesn't seem to matter? http://www.directmail.com/mail_preference/ |
Anonymous
| Bump. There's no way to stop mail at an address? |
MikeL
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Read the post at 9:52. The post office will hold it |
Anonymous
| Man, is this a racket! |
Anonymous
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| You have to take every catalog and call them to take the name off the mailing list. It's a pain but it works. |
Anonymous
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For catalogs, definitely call them and they will stop, after a cycle.
For junk mail, when I have used stop mail when on vacation, I don't recall ever having the junk mail with my regular mail when I picked up. I don't think USPS saves that stuff. How much room would that take while they are holding the mail of everybody else who has stopped mail. |