Unfortunately there is no single source of names/addresses that organizations use for building a mailing list. So if you get yourself removed from one big database resource, great, but your local pizza place might be using the property appraiser tax roll database and didn't use the place you got yourself removed from to begin with. Also, if you happen to fill out some comment card or fill out some form somewhere, you might just be re-added to the resource you already had yourself removed from and then you are back to square one. Major companies, like huge financial institutions, are using the major list resources so it's more likely to work when you request removal. But the smaller orgs, like a pizza place or local attorney or car dealership, probably just makes a new mailing list every time they do a mailing, and don't even have access to the records of people who don't want to receive the mail. These places don't want to be sending you anything either, it just wastes the paper and postage to get it to you.

My advice is to contact any local "mom and pop" type business and request to be removed from their list. That sucks because that requires work on your end. But a lot of the small businesses/nonprofits I mail for have an in-house database they reuse over and over, so it's easy for them to just go in, find your record and delete it.

InfoUSA is a large list resource that a lot of places use all over the country and you can try contacting them also to request to be removed from all of their databases.

Unfortunately there is no way to eliminate it completely, since some of it it's an issue of public records/right to information. If you own property, you cannot expect the property appraiser to remove your info from the public record, same with any court records, tangible property sales, legal permits, etc. Say I clean pools...I will just compile a list of everyone in a zip code who has a pool via public records provided for free by the government and mail those homes a postcard. In that case, there's no way for me to know you requested not to receive junk mail.

I think they should make a list of everyone who doesn't want to receive bulk mail available, the same way they do other legal records so people like me can remove them from any mailing I do.

I hope I'm explaining this clearly, it's not easy to!