{"id":61,"date":"2004-12-29T17:53:34","date_gmt":"2004-12-29T17:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kubasek.com\/blog\/lifelong_learner\/?p=61"},"modified":"2010-08-27T19:42:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T19:42:27","slug":"how-i-get-off-mailing-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"How I Get Off Mailing Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am tired of pre-approved credit card offers. I have several credit cards and I don&#8217;t want any more. I want to opt out from the list where these credit agencies get my name from. OK, Stas, go to this website and opt out: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.optoutprescreen.com\/\">OptOutPreScreen.com<\/a>. That&#8217;s what I did yesterday. We&#8217;ll see what happens. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I am also tired of unwanted letters in the mail. I only want to open letters that are of interest to me. I have to say that after signing up for this service, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmaconsumers.org\/cgi\/offmailinglistdave#howto\">Mail Preference Service (MPS)<\/a>, I receive a lot less junk (just like you get less calls after signing up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donotcall.gov\/default.aspx\">do-not-call list<\/a>). I&#8217;m seeing that my wife is getting a lot more junk mail now &#8212; I signed her up last week. \ud83d\ude42 You have to mail a letter to them.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s how I keep myself from opening unwanted letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am tired of pre-approved credit card offers. I have several credit cards and I don&#8217;t want any more. I want to opt out from the list where these credit agencies get my name from. OK, Stas, go to this website and opt out: OptOutPreScreen.com. That&#8217;s what I did yesterday. We&#8217;ll see what happens. \ud83d\ude42 I am also tired of unwanted letters in the mail. I only want to open letters that are of interest to me. I have to say that after signing up for this service, Mail Preference Service (MPS), I receive a lot less junk (just like you get less calls after signing up for do-not-call list). I&#8217;m seeing that my wife is getting a lot more junk mail now &#8212; I signed her up last week. \ud83d\ude42 You have to mail a letter to them. So that&#8217;s how I keep myself from opening unwanted letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[55,54],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mail","tag-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifelonglearner.kubasek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}