To stop addressed junk mail, register online with the Mailing Preference Service. By registering your name and address, you will gradually receive less addressed junk mail. The entire process takes up to 4 months to start. Your details remain on their register until you inform them of any required changes. Please note, you no longer need to re-register every 5 years.

You will still receive mail from companies that you have done business with or contacted in the past for instance catalogue companies.

All members of a household with the same surname are covered.

For more information about the mailing service or to register:

www.mpsonline.org.uk
0845 703 4599
mps@dma.org.uk

Mailing Preference Service
FREEPOST 29, LON20771
London
W1E 0ZT

Much of the junk mail that people receive is posted out regionally to every household. Contact the Royal Mail Door to Door service, giving your name and full address, to stop receiving some unaddressed junk mail. This can take up to 6 weeks. By using this service, as well as stopping the delivery of unaddressed advertising material delivered by Royal Mail, you will also stop unaddressed deliveries sent in this way by your local councils, which may contain information of interest and use to you.

For more information about the Royal Mail Door to Door Service or to register:

www.royalmail.com
optout@royalmail.com

Door to Door Customer Services
FREEPOST RRBT-ZBXB-TTTS
Royal Mail Door to Door Opt Outs
Kingsmead House
Oxpens Road
Oxford
OX1 1AA

Register with Direct Marketing Association

The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) is the trade body for the direct marketing industry. You can exercise ‘Your Choice’ to ask distribution companies that are members of the DMA to stop the delivery of unaddressed mail to your home.

For more information about ‘Your Choice’ or to register:

www.dma.org.uk
020 7291 3300
yourchoice@dma.org.uk

Your Choice Preference Scheme
Direct Marketing Association (UK) Ltd
DMA House
70 Margaret Street
London
W1W 8SS

Finally, you may wish to put up a ‘No Free Newspapers or Junk Mail’ notice on the door of your home. This should stop unwanted leaflets, like takeaway menus and other promotional materials. It is up to you! You can stop all or some of the junk mail that comes through your letterbox – it depends on your needs.

About junk mail:

• 550,000 tonnes of junk mail is generated in the UK every year.
• The average household receives 224 pieces of junk mail every year.
• 6 trees are used to produce 1 tonne of junk mail.
• That means that every year 3,300,000 trees are cut down to produce 550,000 tonnes of junk mail.
• Most of the junk mail that is delivered ends up in landfill sites instead of being recycled.
• Don’t forget, if you do receive junk mail, it can be recycled through your kerbside recycling box or at local recycling banks.

You or your tenants may be annoyed by the accumulating volume of mail for previous occupiers.
Our leaflet Moving home? Cut out junk mail summarises simple services that your tenants can use to reduce this. It covers services which are useful when tenants move in (cut unwanted mail) and move out (mail redirection).