How To Remove Yourself From The RedPlum Mailing List

If you don’t receive a mailbox full of junk mail from RedPlum every day, you are missing out. Okay, not really – but what you are missing out on is the chance to fill up your recycling bin every few days just from their mailings. Oh, and also the chance to ask yourself daily “how can I remove myself from redplum mailing list?”

RedPlum sends out coupons and assorted other junk mail on a near constant basis, making it the number one thing that my mailman has to lug around with him all day. The “deals” inside all that paperwork aren’t anything of real value – unless you count printing up millions of tons of paper, mailing it around the country, and then recycling it all again unread – a real value. It seems that no matter what you do they get your mailing address and proceed to inundate you and your family with enough paper to keep warm with during winter.

Thankfully, you can ask to get off the list. All you have to do is go over to the Mailing Add-Remove page of their website, scroll down to the Add/Removal Form section, fill it out, and hit SUBMIT. They say it could take 5-6 weeks to become effective, so in that month and half waiting period you can expect to receive – due to my non-exact mathematically-challenged guess – about 39 more pounds of freshly cut down trees covered in useless coupons.

Near the front of my building there is a bin for everyone to drop their paper recycling in as they pull it out of their mailboxes. 99% of the time the only thing in the bin are these circulars from Red Plum, piled high each day for the landlord to move to the back. Let’s stop the madness. If you do not read the junk mail coming to your house, do something about it to stop it; don’t let it continue to arrive only to be pushed directly into the recycling stream. You can stop RedPlum with an investment of about 48 seconds of your time. More than 100 million trees are destroyed each year to produce junk mail.

Make it happen. Click through to the Mailing Add-Remove page and rid yourself of the Red Plum circulars.

70 thoughts on “How To Remove Yourself From The RedPlum Mailing List”

I have tried so many times to get this stopped. I live in an apartment complex where the mail-person simply puts a stack of these on the floor. They aren’t counted out for individual tenants, and the other tenants don’t want to bother with trying to get removed. Since the other tenants haven’t complained they still arrive weekly (not daily at least). I collect them and drop them in the recycling bin to keep the area cleaned up. Log in to Reply

BTW: here is the company information Valassis Communications Inc.
19975 Victor Parkway
Livonia, MI 48152
United States – Map
Phone: 734-591-3000
Fax: 734-591-4503
Website: http://www.valassis.com Valassis owns RedPlum Log in to Reply

I would like to stop the advertising in our Community, this is an assistant living and our residents are not into these coupons.. its a waste to paper. We get them every week, approximately over 80 of them and it all goes in the trash.. Log in to Reply

Hi Sonia, I’m working on the same issue right now. I actually managed to get a customer service rep at Valassis on the phone. You need to call them pretending to be an advertiser and demand to speak with a supervisor or manager. You’ll likely get hung up on several times before you reach someone willing to help. The only way to get them to stop delivering their junk mail, is to send a community petition to them. I’ve left messages asking how to proceed with submitting said petition and have of-course received no response. At the moment, I’m writing a letter to my congressman to see if there is something to be done to stop this unacceptable and relentless harassment. Given how large my community is, we can haply provide several hundred daily lbs of RedPlum Garbage that our city has to pay to send to landfills. To make matters worse, because of our recycling standards, the vast majority of the RedPlum flier is not recyclable, therefore adding tons of glossy, toxic inks and additional junk to our local landfill. The only way to stop this company, is if you get your politician involved, and show that their reckless practices constitute an undue burden for your neighborhood, and an unreasonable expense to your city or township. Log in to Reply

They are relentless! I have just gotten off the phone with them, took 15 minutes to give them my address after submitting it THREE TIMES! I cannot stand this company!

i just want to let you know i have written numerous letters to you your junk mail still comes yet my mail gets returned because there is no room in my mailbox to fit the mail i need, i want this to stop my name is not on them i don’t need them nor want them…it should be illegal for you to keep sending them…after i have written, by the way its been over two months…i live in an apartment building my mailbox doesn’t hold a dozen eggs, yet the mailman continues to stuff your mail in there…please have mercy on us retired people and stop sending them…the poor trees that end up cut down so you can send this junk and why do I even have to be responsible for contacting you…you should be the one to contact me first to see if i want the…this is a disgrace Log in to Reply

Per the link you have in this page, (Mailing Add-Remove page), here is the result: RedPlum says: ‘ ‘We’re sorry, the page you are looking for is no longer available.’ Nice hey? Log in to Reply

Hmm, sorry the link didn’t work for you…it could be a Safari vs. Firefox thing, but I’m using Firefox and the link works for me every time (I just unsubscribed several neighbors). Btw… I’m not very keen on giving them my full name, so have just make up a name or simply fill in ‘Resident’. I hope it works out!

If it comes up with the blue robot just click on reload page. It works you might have to keep doing it Log in to Reply

I’ve also tried many times to unsubcribe through that link. I live in a rented townhouse, and I still get the RedPlum thing no matter what. Part of it may be that it’s often distributed in plastic bags along with other stuff, and those bags are not addressed to particular households, but just thrown in front of the door. If there is a way to make this stop that actually works, I would love to hear about it! Log in to Reply

I’ve been calling and writing letters to those idiots at Red Plum for almost 2 years. It doesn’t stop coming to my apartment. The problem, besides the massive amount of waste, is the mail man will wrap my important mail in the Red Plum junk and if I’m not extremely careful, I throw out the wrong letters.
Red Plum is useless JUNK. I hope some of the advertisers read this and choose a more effective way to advertise. RED PLUM goes right into the trash, I don’t look at it for one second. Log in to Reply

I just picked up 14 Red Plum flyers from my “Snowbird” neighbors driveway. Nothing stops Red Plum from delivering their waste- not even the other 13 un-picked up editions. There must be a way to stop them. Their little bundles are scattered all over the subdivision. I have removed the nail from my mailbox post several times trying to send a message only to find a new nail and another of those dagnabbit flyers. Log in to Reply

It’s impossible to file a request to stop their mail: after filling out the entire form, one needs to enter the “validation” letters as they appear. Despite doing it over and over — correctly (double checked by getting the letters spelled out – they refuse to accept the validation. grrrrrr! Log in to Reply

WE NEED TO MAKE IT ILLEGAL to DUMP this junk mail on people.
I want to STOP getting this waste of paper mail. I see people dump it right in the garbage!! What a waste of paper! At least I dump mine right in the recycle bin. HOW DO WE STOP THIS. THEY DO NOT LISTEN. Log in to Reply

LIke others, I am getting this in a bulk situation where my address won’t matter as it is addressed to BOXHOLDER… and every stinking mailbox at my P.O. has the piles and piles of madness in the recycling bin. Is there someplace to report this kind of resource abuse? Log in to Reply

Oh, I wish there was! All you can do is unsubscribe and sign up for the Do Not Mail list http://www.directmail.com/directory/mail_preference/Default.aspx Log in to Reply

You just gave your personal information to a company that is a member of DMA Choice. Good luck with keeping it off any mailing list now. There is no “national do not mail list” and there is “no national do not email list.” They don’t exist within the Federal Government. These are private companies and when you fill out the form online and send it to them, you are giving them propriety use of your personal information. They can utilize it for anything they choose. The key is not to give out you personal information and fight to keep it private. https://dmachoice.thedma.org/login.php and https://www.catalogchoice.org/ are organizations that can help you keep it private and keep you off mailing lists. People Finders you’re going to have to literally threaten them with criminal prosecution to have them remove your name from their websites. They sell your information illegally and are in violation of every know Federal Privacy Law. Log in to Reply

Type in your name and see what comes up. You’ll find your personal information online for sale to anyone who wants it. Be aware there are People Finder Sites that are owned by PROC and have a list of every SSAN number and are just waiting for you to contact them and verify who you are. Be careful!! Log in to Reply

I am receiving the Redplum junk mail as “Resident”, not under my real name. However, the address is my current one.

Name: “RESIDENT.” That, plus my address, is all Red Plum apparently knows about me yet (which is approximately twice what I would care for them to) and I have tried, like many of your readers, to disengage from this parasitic “Bed Bugs via Post Office” since I moved here one year ago. I have tried calling and leaving messages (which invariably are taken by a machine and never responded to) as well as attempting three time to use their web page (from which I receive no further response once I have entered my information and re-typed their mystery squiggle for the day), left an uncountable number of messages—typed or hand-written—for my own postal carrier, and most exasperating, had at least five personal confrontations with the mulish mail deliverer himself, all to NO AVAIL! I’ve just collected mail for December 24 and am still picking out xmas cards and other rational items from amongst the pages of this accursed and useless tree-murderer before it performs its next task of entirely filling my wastebasket to the top! Thanks for the link; I’ve tried it before. My plan, after the beginning of the new year, is to call the Valassis Corporate Offices to settle this once and for all, or at least to use all the chutzpah I’ve absorbed or can muster from any and all sources, to lay waste to some of their valuable time and resources, just as they do to mine, each time one of their abhorrent “slot-crammers” is stuffed through my door. This is WAR, people! We don’t have to take this! If anyone has pertinent, workable, creative, effective, inspired, brutal, legal, et al., thoughts for laying waste to this little “Waste for a Living” sub-division of one of the numerous multi-national corporate behemoths which control our daily lives in every possible way, it will be a start. I’m hoping Mr. Quilty will be so kind as to leave this conversation open, as I do not presently have a website to receive your ideas. Happy New Year everyone! Log in to Reply

Awesome, I have been trying to stop the waste of innocent trees since I moved to SoCal. To the point where I purchased a PO box and guess what that chit mail apparently takes precedence over mail addressed to me and my family… the USPS stuff that craps inside of my mailbox damaging mail that is addressed to me and family… From what I read the USPS is the culprits responsible for that junk mail. The USPS sells your name and address email and telephone number. You are right buddy this is WAR. I hope you got some type of satisfaction if so please share! Log in to Reply

Register your address with USPS informed delivery (Home & PO Box – each may need a separate email unless changed recently). Use this service to email each sender a removal request – attach the mailers image as reference. Google the return address – normally a companies email is found in their privacy policy. If you need more tips – don’t hesitate to ask. I have eliminated my entire neighborhoods unwanted USPS mail – non-first class (aka junk mail), past resident mail, deceased individuals mail, EDDM/ECRWSS/ECRWSH, current resident and alike. Log in to Reply

Red Plum adds are all over the place In Middletown Ohio,
We can not stop them, Call the City, they don’t care
OPOUT DON’T WORK Log in to Reply

I manage a apt building in Hollywood. We were constantly getting these and not one tenant was taking them and got tired of trashing them. I called the phone company for Red Plum and was told the tenant needed to sign them to be removed. I told them there is not even a name on the address just says resident. I forged all names on them and returned them to compnay. it stoped for a few years now but has just started up again so need to repeat the process.. Bastards. Log in to Reply

There is a reason that Red Plum does not respond to requests to purge your name from their lists. They have no list of addresses or people beyond their employee Xmas card list. Unless you work there, you’re not on their list and that’s the end if it as you agreed on the website. Their mailing is simply large bundles sent to every post office that is roughly equivalent in number to the number of residents. They have a list of zip codes and a single number and SIC code for that zip code and from there it’s just box holder or resident. I do not believe it is possible to Remove a single address. Nothing will happen here until Red Plums guys, uncomfortable with the mail that They are receiving. For example a resident of Co-Op City (may be the world’s largest housing development) collects all the plumbs from every building for a year and sends them back to them 4th class, or better, collect. The only way to approach Red Plumb effectively will be to send a strong message to their advertisers. This must be done in a sale that involves sufficiently big ticket items to get the sales man’s attention. After 45 minutes of discussion, make a sudden movement, as if your phone is vibrating. Take it out and then cause your face and complexion to change dramatically. Ask with alarm: “Oh my God! You’re not one of those people supporting global resource waste with Red Plumb placements are you?”. What ever the answer, if you know this vendor is advertising in the subject flyer, quietly inform them that your employer (son, daughter, partner wife minister or other storyteller) is ready to break the relationship with you if you go forward. Direct, but legal, action is the only effective option here. AZ You will never be able to remove an address from Red Plumb’s List. Reason: there is no list. You receive their flyers as part of an address order that has a zip code and the term: Box holder or resident. There is no way you are going to get the PO to plow through a pile equal to the residents of your town to find and Remove your box or address. Then there us the status quo. Consider, red plum it’s c I ending of thousands, apparently successfully, by having a Web opt out and then just ignoring it. Also, the USPS gets a great deal of its funding from junk mailers. There is just one effective way to rebuff the Plumb and it is neither easy or certain. Make your feeling felt by their advertising clients. One approach might be to cruise all the way through a complex paper prep for an expensive item, and then reach in your pocket, take out your phone and look with alarm at the screen and say, “Oh my God! You’re not a Red Plum advertiser are you? OK, we’ll sorry, my employer (my mother, my father, my doctor, my children, my favorite affinity group, my pastor, rabbi, priest or other storyteller) does not allow me to purchase from reckless tree harvesters. I really need (your product) can you tell me when the support of Red Plumb will be over? Log in to Reply

Ridiculous, this is simply false and utilizing God as an excuse for something you should do yourself. USPS gets no funding from junk mailers what so ever. If this were the case, they wouldn’t be losing money nearly every year and wouldn’t have to raise our mailing rates. Exclude the tree huggers please. They have nothing to do with this situation nor would I want them too in anyway shape or form. They’ve caused enough trouble in this country. Log in to Reply

I think the trick is that when they ask for you name, you have to put whatever it says on the paper they send, something like *********************ecrwss**C-025 2773
00218 RESIDENT
So I filled it out with many variations on that theme because you can’t tell where they make a break, it is intended to be impossible. But I’m going to crack their code. 🙂 Log in to Reply

I tried calling them about a year ago and asked if I could stop receiving this junk. The guy was very rude, he just asked for my zip code. I said, don’t you need my adress, he said no just your zip. I still continued to get all this trash to this day. The most sad thing is that where I live we do not have recycle bins, so all my neighbors just throw in the dumpster. I get so mad knowing that all this waste could be stopped, but it’s all about the money Red Plum makes. Log in to Reply

For those of you who have tried and failed to get off the list the nice way, I suggest that you file Post Office for 1500, “Prohibitory Order” against them. This for prevents a company from sending you “Sexually Oriented” mail. The definition of that term is left to the recipient, so if you think their plum logo looks sexy, you can legally prevent them from sending you mail. 30 days after the PO processes your form, anything they send you is a violation of law. (I am not a lawyer and have not tried this — yet — so take this advice for what it’s worth.) Log in to Reply

They’re running a scam on their advertisers. They are able to show very large distribution numbers of their mailer because they refuse to stop sending it, and then they can charge a premium to the advertisers because of those large numbers. If you read the reviews on Yelp and Glassdoor you’ll find that the general public, and their own employees, hate the company. Basically, the company doesn’t seem to have any respect for anyone, or the environment, and all they care about is money. The CEO even took a huge salary when the company was struggling and laying off employees.
They claim they reach about 90% of American households. Someone should start a class action lawsuit on behalf of all of those households… Log in to Reply