What do I need to do to stop junk mail in deceased parents name?

Moses could part the Red Sea, but nobody can stop junk mail. If you read the Bible, I think junk mail was the 8th plague. The credit bureau can't stop junk mail, not even Homeland Security can stop junk mail. Read the book of Revelations. When the angel opened the seventh seal, it was a notice from Publishers Clearing House telling him he might be a winner.

My dad's former bank still sends him offers five years after he died. So Pam is right - stopping junk mail while someone is still at the same address is virtually impossible.

I just googled this question and found a website that will help you with this:
Hopefully this will help.

I would try marking the envelopes refused, return to sender, recipient deceased, may work. I would certainly try it. I imagine there is nothing advertisers hate more than having to pay additional postage for their own junk mail being returned to them.

One of my absolute favorites mail was sent from the Marlboro company repeatedly and often to a family member who died of a smoking related illness. Good Job!

Pam, I love your answer! And so true!

The amount of junk mail my father was receiving was unbelievable. And before we moved him from his house, we were concerned he might try to send money to every solicitor. He let mail pile up everywhere! (Beginning stage of dementia).

In trying to at least curb the amount he received, I took the time to send back the reply envelopes with a message I had typed out and printed that said that (insert father's name) could no longer contribute to their cause. Include the street address too. Legit businesses will honor the request. It helped some, but it takes a long time! I also contacted the Direct Mail organization.

In addition to anais43's site, there's also info here: http://www.ag.nd.gov/brochures/FactSheet/JunkMail.pdf.

If all else fails, save the junk mail for awhile, invite the neighbors, and have a bonfire or shred and compost for your garden. (lol)

Good luck!

Send it back. Some soliciting offers have prepaid envelops. Sent it back with the original papers.... you might stick few other junk mail pieces there too. It works.

As I posted earlier if you have access to a computer - I am now up to 19 unwanted mail & catalogs stopped via PaperKarma. And after 4 800 service calls in a row at 9 am ( I get anywhere from 8-15 of these a day- by the way DO NOT ever pick up the phone if you get these, no one will answer & immediately your phone number & information that you are home will be sent to 1000's of companies) so today I found Nomorobo - now you have to have a digital phone to use this company ( we have comcast & our home phone is part of the package) with a few clicks all those 800 nobody calls are sent to Nomorobo phone number - so far so good, it's been 2 hours & no 800 calls! Goodness I hope this works.

there is a feature in dma for caretakers of elderly parents. We used it to control the overwhelming junk mail and it has worked so well. The main thing, I think, is that Grandma is not ordering more stuff through the mail; so her name is not continually being re-added to mailing lists. When we started the process about four months ago, there was close to a bushel of junk mail a week; now there is very little other than her magazine subscriptions and personal mail.

Well, this is weird, the past couple of weeks I've been receiving congratulation and welcome to the neighborhood type mail for being a new homeowner.... say what?.... these stores are a bit behind on their mailings because I've been in my house for almost 25 years ;)