Junk Mail

• National Mail: register with the Direct Marketing Association’s Mail Preference Service and reduce most national mail sent to you within 3 months. This includes catalogs, magazine subscriptions offers, credit card solicitations, coupon packets, sweepstakes offers and fund-raising solicitations. Write “Please register my name with the Mail Preference Service so my name is removed from many national mailing lists” and include your name (all variations) and address. Mail your request to:
  Mail Preference Service
  Direct Marketing Association
  PO Box 9008
  Farmingdale, NY 11735-9008
  You may also register on line at www.the-dma.org for a $5 fee.
• Call 888-5-OPTOUT (888-567-8688) to have your name removed from mailing lists and credit offers for 2 years or permanently. Listen & follow the phone prompts.
• Sweepstakes Notifications: If you do not wish to receive mail from Publisher’s Clearinghouse, call 800-645-9242. Contact other sweepstake companies directly.
• Duplicate Subscriptions: if you are receiving multiple copies of magazines or catalogs, write to the organization and ask them to send you only one copy. Often, duplicate copies are sent due to mailing label variations.
• Whenever you enter a contest, make a donation, order a product by mail, subscribe to a magazine, or send in a warranty card, your name may be placed on a mailing list and rented, sold or traded. To limit these mailing lists and reduce junk mail, write “please do not rent or sell my name” next to your name when signing up for anything.
• Contact the companies directly and request that your name by taken off their mailing list.
• Curbside Recycling Programs: some programs accept junk mail or mixed paper. Check the list at CURBSIDE RECYCLING Programs in this guide.
• Drop-off Recycling Programs: some programs accept junk mail and mixed paper. Check the list at DROP-OFF RECYCLING Programs in this guide.
• Gateway Main: 201 Sylvester St., Berrien Springs. 471-2897. Accepts mixed paper and many other paper/fiber materials for recycling. Call for drop-off instructions.

— Unwanted advertising mail is accepted in some recycling programs in Berrien County. However, reducing mail from its source is often the best option.

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