Why One Opt-Out Never Stops Every Catalog DMAchoice reaches companies you have never bought from. The stores you do buy from have to be asked one by one. That split is why catalogs often keep coming after people "opt out." The DMAchoice FAQ says it plainly: "if you've purchased from, subscribed to, or donated to a …

Three Services, Three Different Jobs DMAchoice covers member mailers through a single registry; Catalog Choice covers individual senders you name one by one; PaperKarma covers anything you can photograph. They sound like competitors, but they actually solve different parts of the same problem — which is why the people …

Why the L.L.Bean Catalog Keeps Coming L.L.Bean only takes catalog requests from you, not from a service acting for you. Its catalog preferences page says that after "careful consideration of customer service, data protection, privacy and fees, L.L.Bean no longer honors requests made by" third-party catalog opt-out …

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 …

Within 90 Days of Moving, Two Catalog Floods Hit at Once A move triggers two separate streams of catalog mail, and most people only think about one of them. The first is your own mail, dragged to the new address — and your USPS change-of-address filing actually makes it worse, because that data feeds the National …

Why RH Sourcebooks Are Worth Stopping In June 2014, ABC7 San Francisco reported that Restoration Hardware was "mailing a 17-pound bundle of catalogs to millions of people who never asked for it." The station described "3,300-page, 13-book catalogs" left on doorsteps, and a recycling center that needed a special …

Who Sends Charity Mail, and Which Opt-Out Reaches It Federal law lets you keep the address labels, calendars and other small gifts that charities send. The FTC's page on unordered products says that "charitable organizations can send you merchandise and ask for a contribution," and that "it's your right to keep such …