JUNK MAIL Program From U.S. Postal Service MUST Have Opt-Out
The Issue
You Cannot Unsubscribe from Your Own Government’s Advertising Mail
Every week, the U.S. Postal Service delivers advertising to your mailbox that you never asked for and cannot stop. It’s called Every Door Direct Mail (EDDM): the flyers addressed to “Postal Customer” or marked “ECRWSS.” Advertisers pay USPS 26 cents a piece to put one in every mailbox on a route. In fiscal 2025, USPS delivered nearly 3 billion of them.
Email has an unsubscribe link. Phones have the Do Not Call Registry. Your mailbox has nothing for EDDM: no registry, no form. If you write “Refused” on it, the Post Office throws it away and the advertiser never knows.
USPS already has the machinery. It tells EDDM advertisers to skip any address listed in the “Do Not Deliver Address” column of their mailing paperwork. But today you have to track down every sender and ask, one at a time.
The scale
- Advertising was 52% of everything USPS delivered in fiscal 2025: 56.8 billion pieces.
- The average household received 393 pieces of advertising mail and threw 39% of it away unread (USPS Household Mail Survey, 2025).
- That is about 2 million tons of advertising mail in a single year (USPS, fiscal 2025).
Other countries let households say no. Canada Post honors a household’s request to stop unaddressed ads. The UK’s Royal Mail offers a Door to Door opt-out. Amsterdam and dozens of other Dutch cities deliver unaddressed ads only to homes that ask for them.
What we’re asking
The U.S. Postal Service must create an official opt-out for EDDM and other ECRWSS saturation mail, so any household can say no once.
Sign if you believe:
- Americans should be able to refuse unwanted advertising mail
- Consumer choice should extend to the mailbox
- The government should not deliver advertising to people who have asked it not to
Sources and the full story: zerojunkmail.org
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The Issue
You Cannot Unsubscribe from Your Own Government’s Advertising Mail
Every week, the U.S. Postal Service delivers advertising to your mailbox that you never asked for and cannot stop. It’s called Every Door Direct Mail (EDDM): the flyers addressed to “Postal Customer” or marked “ECRWSS.” Advertisers pay USPS 26 cents a piece to put one in every mailbox on a route. In fiscal 2025, USPS delivered nearly 3 billion of them.
Email has an unsubscribe link. Phones have the Do Not Call Registry. Your mailbox has nothing for EDDM: no registry, no form. If you write “Refused” on it, the Post Office throws it away and the advertiser never knows.
USPS already has the machinery. It tells EDDM advertisers to skip any address listed in the “Do Not Deliver Address” column of their mailing paperwork. But today you have to track down every sender and ask, one at a time.
The scale
- Advertising was 52% of everything USPS delivered in fiscal 2025: 56.8 billion pieces.
- The average household received 393 pieces of advertising mail and threw 39% of it away unread (USPS Household Mail Survey, 2025).
- That is about 2 million tons of advertising mail in a single year (USPS, fiscal 2025).
Other countries let households say no. Canada Post honors a household’s request to stop unaddressed ads. The UK’s Royal Mail offers a Door to Door opt-out. Amsterdam and dozens of other Dutch cities deliver unaddressed ads only to homes that ask for them.
What we’re asking
The U.S. Postal Service must create an official opt-out for EDDM and other ECRWSS saturation mail, so any household can say no once.
Sign if you believe:
- Americans should be able to refuse unwanted advertising mail
- Consumer choice should extend to the mailbox
- The government should not deliver advertising to people who have asked it not to
Sources and the full story: zerojunkmail.org
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Petition created on January 18, 2020