OptOutPrescreen.com allows you to permanently consent to never allow credit card and insurance companies to pre-approve you for offers. You’ll never get those irritating and wasteful envelopes in the mail anymore and trees everywhere will rejoice in your effort to rescue them from certain death.

I’ve been getting 2-3 of these daily for the last 5 years or so, and the volume doubled once I changed my name. Ever since then I’ve been getting two copies of each offer, one for each name! I was getting so tired of opening them up and tearing them to bits that I finally read over one and saw a clause near the bottom stating this program existed. YES. I recommend all of you take this step and get rid of this irritation.

If you’d rather not take care of this online, you can call 1-888-567-8688. (Since the form asks for a US address and SSN, I am guessing this only applies to America, so those of you who live elsewhere might want to research an equivalent program in your own country.)