Do you have a link for this? I will gladly spend $5 to get less junk.
Sorry, I should have put that in there first. Thank you minzy!!
I was hesitant at first because it looks so random, but the official USPS site does recommend and link to it. And I can attest to it working. I haven’t even gotten an email since last week, so no mail!
It won’t stop everything. If you happen to be on a mailing list that they sell your address, no effect. My mom received 3-5 pounds of mail a day, and it didn’t stop any of it, unfortunately. (Yes, she’s a weirdo and weighed it). Hers is all “charities” that I want to kick the workers in the shins. Wounded Warrior, Operation Smile, etc. they sell your address and send out requests for donations that look like bills, praying on people who can’t or don’t realize the difference. A vent for another day.
I would leave it alone, but my Roman Empire is a house that was empty when we first moved to our first house in 2009. In the middle of a very nice suburban subdivision, there was a house with no mailbox. Totally empty inside. No one ever came or went but there was a lawn service. I figured it would eventually go up for sale (most houses in the subdivision sold in under 30 days) but it never did. We moved in 2014; it was still empty. We drive by sometimes and it is STILL empty. What happened to the people? Is it an estate dispute?
Which is to say that a house can sit empty a very long time.
In these types of cases I always assume it’s owned by an international investor. For a while we had a bunch of houses/lots in our town that sold and sat vacant for a super long time, over the past few years most then sold to developers.