Every year, the average American household receives 41 pounds of junk mail. Most of it goes straight to the landfill -- unopened, unread, and completely unwanted.
The tools to stop it exist. OptOutPrescreen, DMAchoice, CatalogChoice -- they're free, federally backed, and genuinely effective. But they're scattered across different websites, require different accounts, and come with zero guidance on what to do first or why it matters.
HowToStopJunkMail.org exists to fix that.
Junk mail isn't just annoying. It costs American households $370 million annually in disposal fees. It accounts for 44% of landfill-bound paper waste. It's a primary vector for identity theft. And the opt-out mechanisms to stop it -- built into federal law -- are genuinely effective but chronically underused.
We think that's a fixable problem. So we built the tools to fix it.
Every stat on this site is cited from primary sources -- EPA data, FTC guidance, Sierra Club research, USPS documentation, and peer-reviewed studies. No guesswork.
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