One List, Several Catalogs Pottery Barn is part of the Williams-Sonoma family, which means a single purchase can put you on the mailing lists for Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, PBteen, West Elm, and Williams-Sonoma all at once. That's why opting out of "the Pottery Barn catalog" alone rarely fixes a home-goods …

A Single Mailing Can Weigh 17 Pounds A full Restoration Hardware mailing is not a catalog in the ordinary sense — it's a shrink-wrapped stack of "Source Books" that has been reported to weigh as much as 17 pounds, dropped on doorsteps whether or not the recipient asked for it. The volume was severe enough to spark …