How to Stop Miles Kimball Catalogs (Free + Paid Ways)

Why Miles Kimball Catalogs Keep Arriving

Most catalog companies make you dig through a phone menu or a vague "unsubscribe" link buried in an email footer to find the postal opt-out. Miles Kimball built one directly into its own contact form — a dropdown labeled "Remove me From Catalog Mailing List," sitting right next to "Change my Catalog Mailing Address." That's a more direct route than a lot of catalog retailers on this site offer, and it's the fastest way to stop this particular gift-and-home-goods catalog, though like every single-brand opt-out it only clears Miles Kimball's own list.

Miles Kimball sells kitchen gadgets, personalized gifts, garden items, and home décor through both its e-commerce site and its print catalog. Its own site footer lists it as part of a larger group of mail-order catalog names, including Collections Etc and several others marketed together as sister brands. That matters for one practical reason: they're separate companies with separate mailing lists, so if a Collections Etc catalog or another related name starts showing up in the same mailbox down the road, it's not a coincidence — it's a related company — but stopping Miles Kimball's catalog by itself won't touch theirs. Each one needs its own removal request.

Your address lands on the Miles Kimball list the way it lands on most catalog lists: a purchase, a catalog request, or a rented prospect list shared with a marketing partner that targets a similar gift-and-home-goods audience. Because this is a household-gift catalog as much as a personal-shopping one, a purchase made for someone else — a birthday gift shipped to your address, for instance — can also seed a record even if you've never ordered anything for yourself.

How to stop Miles Kimball catalogs: step by step

1. Use the removal option built into Miles Kimball's contact page . Select "Remove me From Catalog Mailing List" from the Topic dropdown on the contact form, fill in your name and address, and submit. If you'd rather talk to someone, call customer service at 855-202-7394 (Monday–Friday 8 a.m.–10 p.m., weekends 8 a.m.–5 p.m., Central time) and ask them to pull your record from the postal mailing list — not just email. You can also write to Miles Kimball, 2155 S. Oakwood Road, Oshkosh, WI 54906, and ask to be removed.

2. File a backup removal with Catalog Choice . Create a free account, search for Miles Kimball, and submit a removal request. Catalog Choice is a nonprofit mail-preference service that forwards the opt-out to the sender and tracks whether it's been honored — useful if the direct request doesn't fully take on the first try.

3. Register with DMAchoice . The Association of National Advertisers' mail-preference registry suppresses your name across participating national mailers for an $8 online fee ($9 by mail), good for ten years. This is the broadest lever for any rented-list gift or home-goods catalog mail riding alongside Miles Kimball, since your address can end up on adjacent lists you never contacted directly.

4. Optional: use PaperKarma for whatever slips through. For a catalog that keeps arriving after the steps above, this paid subscription app files removal requests from a photo of the mailer. It's cleanup for the tail end of the pile, not a substitute for going direct to Miles Kimball first.

What to expect

Catalog Choice notes that removals can take up to about 90 days to clear a sender's next print cycle, and DMAchoice's national suppression runs on a similar window. A direct request through Miles Kimball's own contact form, especially one that names the exact removal topic, tends to move faster than the third-party registries because it targets your account record instead of waiting on a cross-reference. Don't be surprised if one more edition arrives after you file — that's a catalog already addressed and queued before your request landed, not a sign the opt-out failed.

Why a sister-brand catalog family makes this trickier

The structural wrinkle with Miles Kimball is the same one that trips people up with any catalog company that markets several titles under one roof: each brand keeps its own list, even when they're presented together in a footer or a "you might also like" panel. If you're getting mail from more than one of these related gift-and-home catalogs, treat each as a separate removal — a request filed with Miles Kimball has no effect on a sister catalog's records, because there's no shared opt-out that reaches all of them at once. DMAchoice is the closest thing to a single lever here, since it suppresses your name broadly across participating national mailers rather than one company's file at a time.

It also helps to recognize that gift catalogs specifically tend to generate duplicate records. If you've ordered a gift shipped directly to someone else's address, or had a gift shipped to yours, either transaction can create a mailing record independent of your main customer account. If the catalog keeps arriving after your first removal request, ask whoever answers the phone to search for all records under your name and address, not just the one tied to your most recent order.

What doesn't work

Throwing an addressed Miles Kimball catalog in the recycling bin sends no signal back to the company — non-delivery isn't read as an opt-out. Writing "refuse — return to sender" only helps when the mail is genuinely misaddressed or meant for a previous resident; it does nothing for a catalog correctly addressed to you as a current or prospective customer. And unsubscribing from Miles Kimball's promotional emails , if you're signed up for them, has no effect on the printed catalog — email and postal-mail preferences are tracked as separate systems at nearly every catalog retailer, this one included.

Keeping your address off the list once it stops

An opt-out isn't permanent immunity. Any new purchase — your own order, or a gift shipped to your address by someone else — can quietly re-enroll your address in the catalog stream, since a fresh order reads as renewed interest in receiving mail. Two habits keep a cleared address clear. First, whenever you or a household member orders from Miles Kimball again, ask at the same time to be marked "catalog mail: do not send" on the account, and separately ask that your name not be shared with outside marketing partners. Second, photograph the address label of the last catalog before it goes in the recycling bin — the code on it turns any future removal call into a two-minute job instead of a search through old order history.

Frequently asked questions

Does removing myself from Miles Kimball also stop catalogs from its sister brands? No. Each is a separate company with its own mailing list, even when they're grouped together in Miles Kimball's own site footer. A removal request has to be filed with each catalog by name.

How long until a Miles Kimball catalog actually stops? Plan on up to about 90 days for Catalog Choice and DMAchoice removals to take effect. A direct request through Miles Kimball's own contact form, using the "Remove me From Catalog Mailing List" option, tends to clear faster since it targets your exact account.

Can I call instead of using the contact form? Yes — Miles Kimball's customer service line is 855-202-7394, staffed Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and weekends 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Central time. Ask specifically to be removed from postal catalog mailings.

Is a paid app like PaperKarma necessary? No — the contact-form removal plus Catalog Choice and DMAchoice covers most cases for free. PaperKarma is optional cleanup for whichever edition slips through afterward.

I got a Miles Kimball catalog addressed to someone who doesn't live here anymore — what do I do? That's a previous-resident record, not yours to remove directly. Mark it "not at this address — return to sender" and put it back in outgoing mail; a personal opt-out request won't match a name that isn't yours.

References

• Catalog Choice — the nonprofit mail-preference service; create a free account and file named-sender removals here
• Catalog Choice FAQ — how the nonprofit's removal requests work and what to do when a sender doesn't comply
• DMAchoice — the Association of National Advertisers' mail-preference registry; register a name for removal from participating national mailers