How To Deal With Junk Mail

How to Make it Go Away!

Take your junk mail home and throw it in your recycling bin! (Easy) Or;

Provide Canada Post with a notice indicating that you do not want unaddressed mail delivered to your mail box. This would include samples, coupons, flyers, free distribution magazines, community information, community recreation schedules, and any unaddressed materials.

Put this notice inside your mail compartment on the inside front lip of the box. Please do not put your note on the inside door or outside door because the doors are removed from the view of the letter carrier when they are opened for mail delivery.

Thank you to our various community members who brought to our attention something called a "Red Dot Campaign" led us to this service provided by Canada Post, which makes no referrence to red dots to the public. It is simply a service provided upon written request for inviduals to stop recieving unaddressed materials, as set out above and below.

Canada Post is mandated by law to deliver all addressed mail, including advertising mailers with your name and address and which have been generated from a list. The only exemptions are materials from Elections Canada and Provincial Chief Electoral Officers, House of Commons mailings, municipal electoral mailings and community newspapers.

If you would like addressed bulk mail to stop coming to you, then you must get on the Canadian Marketing Association’s “Do Not Contact List”, either directly at:

http://www.the-cma.org/?WCE=C=47%7CK=224217

This can also be accessed through the Canada Post website Consumer Choice page at

http://www.canadapost.ca/corporate/about/green/Consumer/participate-e.asp

Or contact Canada Post Customer Service at 1-866-607-6301

PLEASE NOTE:

• Canada Post STRONGLY encourages recycling of any unwanted unaddressed advertising.
• Canada Post STRONGLY encourages that in making this decision we consider that many local businesses and charitable organizations depend on direct marketing.
• Canada Post receives vital revenue from bulk mail and it is an important component of their operation, is bound and obligated to deliver this mail for their paying customers, and can only stop this delivery with written notice from the individual mail recipients.

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