How to Reduce Junk Mail
What to do
- Click here to visit the OptOutPrescreen site. The site is maintained by the four major credit reporting agencies.
- In the OptOutPrescreen site, scroll down if necessary and click on the Click here to Opt-in or Opt-out button.
- Select the Five-year Opt-out option and click the Submit button.
- Enter your information. Note that you do not have to give your Social Security Number or Date of Birth if you don’t want to.
- After you complete entering the required information, click the Confirm button.
It’s that easy. It takes 5 days for registration to occur, but your name and address will be removed from the list provided by the four consumer credit companies to firms that mail credit and insurance offers to your house.
A little more
There are four major consumer credit reporting companies that track your data. They have a list of people, with their addresses, that they provide to firms which send credit card and insurance offers to your house (that’s the mail that many of us consider junk). By removing yourself from the list, your name and address are not provided to these firms for five years, which in turn should reduce the amount of junk mail you receive.
Notice that you can permanently opt-out of the credit companies lists. If you want to do that, you must print out a page and mail it to the address provided. In other words, you will not be able to complete the entire process online.
You can find out more information about this service here.
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