Stop Junk Mail

We can wait a long time for a postal delivery and then much of it is junk.  Here are some ways we can help to reduce this waste.

1.      Put a ‘no junk mail’ sign on your door to help stop junk mail.

2.      Contact Royal Mail and ask them to stop delivering leaflets and brochures to your address.  You need to fill in an opt out form and post it - the address is on the form. You can download the opt out form on the Royal Mail website: https://help.royalmail.com/personal/s/article/How-to-opt-out-of-advertising-mail  Or phone: 0345 266 0858 (charges may apply)

3.      Register with the Data and Marketing Association’s ‘Your Choice’ scheme

Contact DMA and ask them to send you an opt out form. If you call them, you need to select option 3.  Telephone: 020 7291 3300.  Email: yourchoice@dma.org.uk

4.      Register with the Mailing Preference Service to stop advertising material that’s addressed to you personally.  You can register online at the MPS website or you can contact them by phone on telephone: 020 7291 3310. 

5.      Stop charity direct marketing communications by using the Fundraising Preference Service on the Fundraising Regulator's website. https://public.fundraisingpreference.org.uk/home or phone: 0300 3033 517

6.      Contact your electoral registration office and ask them to take your details off the ‘open register’ - this is a list of people and addresses that can be bought and used for sending junk mail.  You can choose for your details not to be added to the edited electoral register when you fill out an electoral registration form. Tick the box that says “opt out” of the open register.

7.      Contact any particular sender directly, give your details and include the wording: “Please stop processing my personal data for direct marketing purposes in accordance with Article 21 of the General Data Protection Regulation.”

8.      Return to sender having written “unsolicited mail, return to sender” on the envelope.  You don’t have to pay for postage.

9.      How to avoid junk mail in future: you should check any forms that you fill in for tick boxes that say something like “I give permission for third parties to contact me” or “I give you permission to contact me”.

This is an edited version of a page on the Citizens Advice website, one of our trusted resources. 

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