This page acknowledges the organizations, services, and advocates working to give consumers control over their mailboxes. While none of these can stop EDDM mail, they're doing important work to reduce junk mail and advocate for change.
Resources
These organizations, services, and government agencies are working to reduce junk mail and advocate for consumer choice. We encourage you to support their efforts.
Opt-Out Services
These services can help reduce addressed junk mail. None can stop EDDM mail addressed to "Postal Customer."
OptOutPrescreen.com
Official service from the major credit bureaus (Equifax, Experian, Innovis, TransUnion). Stops pre-approved credit and insurance offers. Free, with 5-year or permanent options.
Recommended by: FTC Consumer Advice
DMAchoice.org
Industry opt-out service from the Association of National Advertisers. Covers catalogs, magazine offers, and marketing mail from 3,600+ member companies. $4-6 fee, lasts 10 years.
Also offers: Deceased Do Not Contact List, Caretaker opt-out
CatalogChoice.org
Free nonprofit service from The Story of Stuff Project. Opt out of specific catalogs from 10,000+ mailers. Has helped over 2 million users reduce junk mail and saved half a million trees.
Nonprofit: 501(c)(3) organization
PaperKarma
Mobile app for iOS and Android. Snap a photo of unwanted mail and they contact the sender. Largest Do Not Mail registry in USA with 100,000+ mailers. Over 10.3 million opt-out requests processed.
Model: Subscription-based after free trial
41pounds.org
Contacts 20-35 direct mail companies on your behalf. Claims 80-95% reduction in junk mail. Donates portion of $41 fee to environmental nonprofits including American Forests and Trees for the Future.
Name origin: Average American receives 41 pounds of junk mail/year
DirectMail.com
Free supplemental registry. Marketing agency that created their own Do Not Mail list. May overlap with DMAchoice but provides additional coverage.
Digital Domi
Emerging platform working to replace physical junk mail with secure digital delivery. Users get paid for viewing ads instead of receiving paper. Building coalition of 10 million households for junk mail reform.
Advocacy & Educational Organizations
These organizations research, educate, and advocate on junk mail's environmental and social impacts.
Eco-Cycle
Boulder, Colorado-based nonprofit advancing zero waste solutions. Their comprehensive "How to Stop Junk Mail" guide is one of the best resources available. Key source for junk mail environmental statistics.
Focus: Zero waste advocacy, recycling education
Stand.earth (formerly ForestEthics)
Environmental organization that ran the influential "Do Not Mail" campaign in the 2000s, advocating for a national opt-out registry. Changed policies at Staples, Victoria's Secret, and other major catalog companies. Now focused on broader climate campaigns.
Impact: Protected 65 million acres, shifted billions in corporate purchasing
VoLo Foundation
Private foundation researching climate change and sustainability issues. Key source for junk mail statistics: 51.5 million metric tons of CO2 emissions, 848 pieces per household annually, 33% of global mail is junk.
Grants issued: $48 million (as of 2024)
Sierra Club
Published "Let's Ban Junk Mail Already" calling for a national opt-out registry. Describes it as "one modest environmental reform that would require little investment but would help avoid millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions."
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
Nonprofit consumer advocacy organization (founded 1992). Maintains comprehensive junk mail opt-out guides and privacy resources.
Focus: Consumer privacy education and advocacy
The Story of Stuff Project
Environmental nonprofit that acquired and operates Catalog Choice. Works to change the way we make, use, and throw away stuff, including reducing paper waste from junk mail.
Government Resources
FTC Consumer Advice
Official Federal Trade Commission guide on stopping junk mail. Recommends OptOutPrescreen and DMAchoice as primary solutions.
Seattle.gov Stop Junk Mail Program
Free city-run opt-out service partnered with Catalog Choice. One of the few municipal governments offering direct junk mail reduction assistance.
Massachusetts Consumer Guide
Comprehensive state-level consumer protection guide with opt-out resources and tips.
Research & Data Sources
The statistics cited throughout this website come from these organizations.
Center for Development of Recycling (San Jose State University)
Source for: 80-100 million trees cut annually, 41 pounds of junk mail per American adult per year
VoLo Foundation
Source for: 51.5 million metric tons CO2 emissions, 848 pieces per household, 33% of mail is junk globally, 9 million cars equivalent
ForestEthics / Stand.earth
Source for: 28 billion gallons of water consumed, 96.7 billion gallons water (alternate estimate)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Source for: 44% thrown away unopened, 5+ million tons landfill waste annually
USPS
Source for: ~3 billion EDDM pieces annually, EDDM program details and pricing
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These organizations are doing important work, but none can solve the core problem: there is no way to opt out of EDDM mail. Sign the petition to demand a Do Not Mail registry.
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