(1) Register with the Mailing Preference
Service (MPS)
Ask
to have your name removed from most mailing lists in the Country by registering
with the Mailing Preference Service. This service is free, takes around 4
months to become fully effective, and will help reduce addressed junk
mail. You can also register a previous occupier at your address; someone
who has died; or your name at a previous address.
We provide freepost registration forms for the MPS. Please contact us at the
County Council if you need
copies (one form is required per person).
Alternatively, register by writing a letter to the MPS giving the full address,
name and title of every person who wants to register:
The Mailing Preference Service
FREEPOST 29 LON20771
London W1E 0ZT
Or register over the telephone or online:
Tel: 0845 703 4599 www.mpsonline.org.uk
It will not stop junk mail from organisations you deal with directly such as your bank (see section 4 on how to stop this).
(2) Register with Royal Mail
Royal Mail are paid by organisations to deliver unaddressed junk
mail. To try and stop this being delivered by their postmen, write to or email
Royal Mail for a registration form:
Note: Royal Mail do not
provide a telephone helpline
for this service
Royal Mail Door to Door Opt Outs
Freepost RRBT-ZBXB-TTTS
Kingsmead House
Oxpens Road, Oxford OX1 1RX
Email: optout@royalmail.com
The service is free and takes around 6 weeks to become fully effective. You
will still receive mail addressed ‘to the occupier’ or similar. Mail such
as community newsletters from your local authority delivered by Royal Mail
will also be stopped if you register (copies of these publications are usually
available from your local library or online). For further information on Royal
Mail’s Opt Out service see: www.royalmail.com
(3) Fix a notice by your
letterbox
Not
to scale
A
small notice by your letterbox may help stop local distributors putting junk
mail such as takeaway menus, advertising flyers, free newspapers, or other
circulars through your door, although it won’t stop Royal Mail postmen delivering
junk mail (see section 1 and 2 to help stop this).
We provide free letterbox stickers (pictured below). Please contact us at the
County Council if one is not enclosed with this pack.
(4) Contact the sender
Contact
the organisation that has sent the mail and ask them to remove your name
from their mailing list. Tell your bank or credit card company not to send
information about their services or share your details with others.
(5) Return to sender
If there is a return address, send junk mail back unstamped to the organisation
that sent it. Write ‘Return to sender - please remove name from mailing
list’ on the envelope.
(6) Be careful when giving out your
details
When completing forms and questionnaires or giving out your details over the
telephone, remember to state that you are not interested in receiving future
marketing material. If not, your name and address may be added to a mailing
list or passed to a third party, resulting in more junk mail.
(7) Registering to Vote
When you fill out your annual electoral registration form, choose for your
details not to be added to the ‘edited voting register’ (which can be bought
by companies who use the details for marketing purposes/sending junk mail).
For any junk mail which you do receive through your door, it can be recycled along with other leaflets, catalogues, newspapers and magazines in doorstep recycling collection schemes provided in many areas, or in the paper banks at any local recycling site.
Please ensure you remove any items that are not made of paper (such as plastic or foil wrappings) before recycling.
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Produced by East Sussex County Council’s
Waste Management Group
Tel: 01273 482144
January 2008