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Is there a way to get the credit card companies to stop sending me offers in the mail?

Can I make the post office stop putting them in my box? How do I make this stop?

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  • WO LEE
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    yeah!

    take them , use them and never pay back! they'll sure stop sending you any!

  • 1 decade ago

    No you can not stop the post office from putting them in your box. For some reason people blame the post office for doing their job.

    Just discard them after shredding them of course. Do not reply at all. If you do they know you are alive and will continue to send more. Many credit card applications are standard rate mail, meaning that if you were no longer at the address the post office recycles the paper, and the company has no idea if you exist.

    The other suggestions about Business Reply are reasonable as long as not taken to extremes. I believe some companies are stopping the mailing of applications because it is not a very efficient way of getting new cardholders.

  • 1 decade ago

    You might try this idea from a quote I saw on bash.org:

    <wolf> 1. Save every Free Credit Card Offer you get, Put it in pile A

    <wolf> 2. Save every Free Coupon You get, put that in pile B

    <wolf> 3. Now open the credit card mail from pile A and find the Business

    Reply Mail Envelope.

    <wolf> 4. Take the coupons from pile B and stuff them in the envelope you hold

    in your hand.

    <wolf> 5. Drop the stuffed to the brim envelopes in your mail and walk away

    whistling.

    <wolf> I have now received two phone calls from the credit card companies

    telling me that they received a stuffed envelope with coupons rather

    then my application. They informed me that it they are not pleased that

    they footed the bill for the crap I sent them. I reply with "It says

    Business Reply Mail" I'm suggesting coupons to you to ensure that your

    business is more successful. They promptly hang up on me.

    <wolf> Now, I did this for about a month before it got boring, so I got an

    added idea! I added exactly 33 cents worth of pennies to the envelope

    so they paid EXTRA due to the weight. I got a call informing me about

    the money, I said it was a mistake and I demanded my change back. After

    yelling at the clerk and then to the supervisor they agreed to my

    demands and cut me a check for the money. I hold in my hand at this

    very moment a check from GTE Visa for exactly 33 cents.

  • 4 years ago

    the authorities those days set up an internet site for us to prevent such things you'll opt to seem up the information superhighway web site or you are able to call the businesses ask to speak with the proper manager and ask them to placed you on the do no longer call record yet be affected individual somewhat of waiting for the "in case you want to speak with ???? press a million" in simple terms hit the operator button and they're going to direct you the the cc organisation it extremely is sending you the information. strong success

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    On one I got recently there was a box to check if I did not want them anymore. It is small print and was in the middle of the page on that one.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Do away with you mail box. I guarantee you will get no more letters from credit card companies.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Post office won't but just dont accept them. Discard them as soon as they come and dont respond to any

  • 1 decade ago

    put trash in the postage paid envelope that comes with the junk and mail it back to them. and by trash I mean old chewing gum, porn, pubes,etc

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