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Call the post office. They will typically ask you to put your last name on the inside of your box and then they will tell the carrier to only deliver mail with
by mttjj 4y ago
Call the post office. They will typically ask you to put your last name on the inside of your box and then they will tell the carrier to only deliver mail with your name (or ‘Current Resident’ obviously). If you’re lucky, your carrier is nice and respects that immediately. If you’re not lucky, you may have to call the post office every day for a month and complain like I did until they get the point. Eventually that kind of mail stopped.
I’m not sure what they do with all that mail that’s not addressed to me but I don’t really care. The point is I don’t have to see it.
This, along with the other tips in these comments (such as calling customer support lines and requesting removals) means I’m down to literally about one piece of junk mail per month these days.
- spike021 4y agoAt least for this current apartment, my last name has already been on a sticky-note attached to the door since I moved in. Guessing the friendly mailman did it. Yet that hasn't stopped the deluge of junk not addressed to me finding its way there (I don't blame the mailman, he's a really cool guy and probably just can't do much about it).
- dylan604 4y agoAny piece of mail marked "Current Resident" gets deposited directly to the trash, so if it doesn't specifically have my name on it, don't waste energy bringing it to me.