Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!tektronix!uw-beaver!black From: black@uw-beaver (Andrew P. Black) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.misc Subject: Re: Junk Mail Unlisting Message-ID: <877@uw-beaver> Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 16:32:26 EST Article-I.D.: uw-beave.877 Posted: Thu Mar 8 16:32:26 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Mar-84 07:53:31 EST References: <593@pyuxa.UUCP> Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 21 Yes, the Direct Mail Marketing Association will take you off of their lists. And for a month or so you will not get so much junk mail. But after that, it will restart again. Why? Because every couple of months, most direct mail companies submit their lists of addresses to the US post Office to be "checked" and put into Carrier Route order. In the process, the USPS will put your address BACK ON THE LIST. You may not believe it, but my wife has just gone through a three month paper chase with our Senator and the USPS and I'm right. The USPS does not give out your name, but so what - the junk is just addresses to "Resident". One thing you can do is simply mark your mail "Refused" and leave it in your mail box. Provided it isn't registered or certified etc., the postal carrier has to take it away. If it's junk, they don't send it back, just destroy it (I bet they don't even recycle it). But currently this is the only way you have of protesting about the action of the Post Office. Perhaps if enough people do this, the USPS will stop giving out addresses. Andrew Black