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Junk mail can be refused. https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Refuse-unwanted-mail-and-remove-name-from-mailing-lists https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Refuse-unwanted

• aldebran 4y ago
  My post person wrote “you can’t just decline mail” and dropped it back in my mailbox. I did write “return to sender” on it. I even tried writing “return to sender. Declined by receiver”. I wrote to the postmaster general. Nothing came of it.
  • mkeedlinger 4y ago
    (Note, I get really petty about this stuff) My solution is like said above: return it to sender. If your post person is trying to keep it your problem, make it USPS' problem: when returning to sender put it in a postbox that your post person can't gate-keep. I've personally had pretty good success with this, albeit it does require consistent effort for a while.
    • lostcolony 4y ago
      Yeah; put it in a post box, period. If they have a personal (outgoing) mailbox that they are putting just the one piece of mail into, the mail person can skim over it, see the marker, and make decisions. If it's a post box that is filled with a bunch of people's outgoing mail, no postal worker is going to read over it that way. Further, if you've blacked out the 'to' address with a marker (as I do), and written 'Return to Sender', they then are faced with either returning it to sender...or treating it as a dead letter that is undeliverable. They won't do the latter if there is a sender they can return it to, ergo...back it goes.
      • aldebran 4y ago
        Yeah this is a good idea. Going to drop it off at a friends outbox.
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