Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Consumer Credit Reporting Companies are permitted to include your name on lists used by creditors or insurers to make firm offers of credit or insurance that are not initiated by you ("Firm Offers"). The FCRA also provides you the right to "Opt-Out", which prevents Consumer Credit Reporting Companies from providing your credit file information for Firm Offers.
Pre-screened credit card offers, etc.
DMAchoice is an online tool developed by the Direct Marketing Association to help you manage your mail. This site is part of a larger program designed to respond to consumers' concerns over the amount of mail they receive, and it is the evolution of the DMA's Mail Preference Service created in 1971.
Catalogs, coupons, special offers.
Customize or opt-out of directory delivery.
Dead-tree phone books of all kinds.
Vericast will make every effort to remove my residential address from its Mailer, provided Vericast can match my address to their internal database. Due to advertising programs being prepared several weeks in advance, it can take up to six weeks for this removal to become fully effective.
Mailed ads for local grocery stores, mostly. They used to call the mailings "RedPlum" and themselves "Valassis", but now they're "Vericast" and they send out "Save".
PaperKarma lets you take photos of the unwanted mail you want to stop. Snap a photo, and you're done. We automatically contact the Mailer and remove you from their distribution list. PaperKarma® can stop most unwanted mail that is addressed directly to you.
We used PaperKarma to unsubscribe to the many, many catalogs that were coming to our house addressed to other people. It took a few months to get them all, but our mail carrier literally thanked us for it.
The National Do Not Call Registry gives you a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls at home.
It's already illegal for telemarketers to call cell phones. You can de-list your home phone here.
If the calls continue, log the call and file a complaint.
NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.
Like a pi-hole in the cloud, NextDNS blocks advertising and trackers at the DNS level.
Last update: 29 December 2022.