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>The workaround is to do a temporary change of address, and contact each company that sends you mail forwarded from your old address individually, to update you

>The workaround is to do a temporary change of address, and contact each company that sends you mail forwarded from your old address individually, to update your address record. When the mail stops forwarding, you stop getting mail from anyone that you didn't explicitly inform of your new address. This is a real dick move. Someone will have that address after you and you leaving your junk behind for them to deal with on an ongoing basis is straight up douche baggery.

WrtCdEvrydy 8y ago
> leaving your junk behind for them to deal with This assumes the spam through mail is yours... it is the company's.
logfromblammo 8y ago
The dicks are the ones sending out the junk. Don't blame the victims. The remedy for the next guy is to use a "return to sender: moved, left no address" notation or ink-stamp (or just "refused"), and to leave the articles in the mailbox. If they keep coming, a form 3575z (reason: MLNA) is a little more work, and the postal employee has to submit it, but is like a permanent change of address to /dev/null .
- wang_li 8y ago
  > The remedy for the next guy... Again, you're leaving your problems for someone who has no connection to you. It should be you who files those forms to stop the mail you don't want to receive, not the poor person who happens to move in after you.
  - mynameisvlad 8y ago
    Realistically, the junk mail is based on a list that likely already contains that address. Most mail advertisers have switched to using "Current Occupant" or "X or Current Occupant" to get around the "Does not live here" workaround (as the current occupant always lives there). Once again, it's the junk mail originator, and a postal system that readily accepts and delivers said junk mail that is truly at fault here. Everyone else is a victim, and everyone basically gets the same set of junk because practically every address is on several lists at this point.
  - logfromblammo 8y ago
    The 3575z has to have a reason listed, and the only valid reasons all reduce to "that person isn't here". The postal employee won't take the form if you are the addressee. Again, stop blaming the victims, and start assigning responsibility accurately: to the postal service and to the senders. The USPS makes too much money from unwanted mailings to make it easy for the recipients to block it. Besides that, the new resident can always just toss the mail addressed to you in the trash, and the postal service would probably never notice. You only have to jump through the bureaucratic hoops if you are afraid someone might come after you for mishandling mail that isn't yours.

WrtCdEvrydy 8y ago

> leaving your junk behind for them to deal with This assumes the spam through mail is yours... it is the company's.

logfromblammo 8y ago

The dicks are the ones sending out the junk. Don't blame the victims. The remedy for the next guy is to use a "return to sender: moved, left no address" notation or ink-stamp (or just "refused"), and to leave the articles in the mailbox. If they keep coming, a form 3575z (reason: MLNA) is a little more work, and the postal employee has to submit it, but is like a permanent change of address to /dev/null .

wang_li 8y ago
> The remedy for the next guy... Again, you're leaving your problems for someone who has no connection to you. It should be you who files those forms to stop the mail you don't want to receive, not the poor person who happens to move in after you.
- mynameisvlad 8y ago
  Realistically, the junk mail is based on a list that likely already contains that address. Most mail advertisers have switched to using "Current Occupant" or "X or Current Occupant" to get around the "Does not live here" workaround (as the current occupant always lives there). Once again, it's the junk mail originator, and a postal system that readily accepts and delivers said junk mail that is truly at fault here. Everyone else is a victim, and everyone basically gets the same set of junk because practically every address is on several lists at this point.
- logfromblammo 8y ago
  The 3575z has to have a reason listed, and the only valid reasons all reduce to "that person isn't here". The postal employee won't take the form if you are the addressee. Again, stop blaming the victims, and start assigning responsibility accurately: to the postal service and to the senders. The USPS makes too much money from unwanted mailings to make it easy for the recipients to block it. Besides that, the new resident can always just toss the mail addressed to you in the trash, and the postal service would probably never notice. You only have to jump through the bureaucratic hoops if you are afraid someone might come after you for mishandling mail that isn't yours.