PS Form 1500 Application for Listing and / or Prohibitory Order

How to Stop Unsolicited Mail?

If you do not want to get offensive mail anymore, the most effective way to stop it is to obtain a prohibitory order against the sender. PS Form 1500 serves this purpose.

1. Provide your full name and mailing address.
2. If you find certain mail offensive, mark box 1. If you are an addressee of that mail, mark box 1a. Mark box 1b if you are a parent of the addressee and provide their name. If you are entitled to receive someone's mail, provide the name of that person and mark box 1c.
3. Enter the full name and address of the sender and attach the offensive mailpiece to the form. Provide only the original mailpiece.
4. If you have children under 19 years old and you don't want to receive sexually oriented advertisements of any kind, check box 2. It is not obligatory to attach a mailpiece in this case, but you should provide the names and dates of birth of your children.
5. Sign and date the form. Put the completed PS Form 1500 and the attached mailpiece into one envelope. The application is sent off directly to the address provided below: Pricing and Classification Service Center, US Postal Service, PO Box 1500, New York NY 10008-1500

You will receive a reply within 15 days. The reply will contain a confirmation letter that says they have stopped the junk mailer from sending letters to your address. The Prohibitory Order against the sender lasts 5 years. It will take effect 30 days after the sender receives the order from the post office. The Prohibitory Order makes the sender refrain from correspondence to your address and deletes your address from all their mailing lists controlled by them directly or by their agents or assigns.

If after obtaining the Prohibitory Order you receive junk mail from the same sender again, you should place the date on this junk mailpiece and send it to the United States Postal Service with the attached copy of the Prohibitory Order.