Is your inbox full of envelopes you don't want? Do you hate all this waste of paper? Do the letters pile up on the table, waste your time and compete for your attention? By investing a couple of hours, you can eliminate all of this at the source. That's how.
Steps
Step 1. Make use of the Opposition Register, which will allow you to register and fill out a form to practice your dissent for receiving paper materials by post
Step 2. Also contact the Adiconsum
Step 3. If you no longer wish to receive your bank statement and other communications from your bank, please contact the institution
You can deactivate the reception online or by presenting a form at the counter. This will also protect your safety.
Step 4. Call any company you receive catalogs you don't care about to be excluded from their mailing list
Customer service may ask you why you made this decision. Simply explain that you have no intention of purchasing the products on offer. Please have the postal label with your address on hand, on which you will also find the reference codes they may ask you for.
- Some companies allow you to unsubscribe from the service on the internet: take a look at the web page before calling.
- Try a similar approach to stop receiving business publications, such as free magazines from insurance companies.
Step 5. Remind the companies of your mail and privacy preferences
If you contact a company by post, you will be placed on their contact list. The first time you make a transaction with this company (for example place an order), ask to be excluded from this list. Add that you don't want the company to give your name to third parties.
Do not write your address when participating in surveys and sweepstakes. If you give your address or your phone number, write to the side "I prefer not to receive any advertising communication"
Step 6. Contact all spam senders
Some letters are sent to all residents. The postman, by law, cannot decide what you consider as "junk mail", he has the obligation to deliver everything addressed to you. So, get in touch with each sender to be removed from their database. You will find his address or telephone number on the letter itself or online. Some allow you to follow the procedure online.
You shouldn't receive mail that isn't addressed directly to you, such as advertising flyers. If you know the postman, tell him these letters are technically not for you, so he doesn't have to leave them in the post box
Step 7. Stop the flow of mail not addressed to you:
If it's addressed to the person who lived in your house before you, send it back to the sender
Step 8. Inform the bank and other associations of the death of a person so as not to receive more mail in his name
Step 9. Paste a sticker on the inbox that says “No flyers”
We don't guarantee it will work, but you can give it a try.
Step 10. If you are in the last year of high school and receive mail from various universities, contact the different institutions to be excluded from the list
The same is true if you always get letters that you think are useless from the university you attend.
Advice
- Recycle your junk mail card. Throw it in the appropriate bins or use it to start a fire. You can also use it to make crafts, particularly collage and decoupage.
- If you know that an unsubscribe request expires after a certain period of time, write it down on your calendar to renew it.
- Whenever you give your address, always ask for it to be treated as confidential information.
- Store all paper for recycling in the same place.
- Always ask that your data is not disclosed to third parties.
- Receive bills and bank communications by email.
- They may tell you that the mail cycle won't stop right away, but that you will still be receiving letters for some time. Take this disclaimer for good.
- When filling out forms on the internet, read the privacy policy and do not tick the boxes to agree to receive junk mail. If the damage is already done, contact the company.
- Most companies are better off eliminating from the list those people who receive their catalogs but then don't buy anything: it's a useless waste of money.
- Send postcards that do not require postage to the sender by writing your address, your customer number and the request to be removed from the list. It may be less effective than contacting the company directly, as the ordering departments don't always check the shipping lists.
Warnings
- Do not burn coated paper or paper printed with colored ink in the fireplace. It can release small amounts of toxic chemicals.
- Don't be rude to the person answering the phone, even if you are sick of receiving junk mail - they are not responsible for shipping. Be sure of what you want but kind.
- Sending junk mail back to the sender is not effective in getting rid of it.
- Don't be fooled by advertisements received in the mail: they are often of dubious origin. Read the clauses carefully.
- Make sure the mail is actually junk before you throw it away
