How to remove yourself from Mailing Preference Service
The Mailing Preference Service is the UK's free suppression register for addressed direct mail. Legitimate UK mailers screen their lists against it.
Open Mailing Preference Service’s opt-out page →Opens on their site. Come back here for the steps.
- Holder
- Data & Marketing Association
- How you come off
- Online formyou submit it
- They may ask for
- Nothing beyond the name and address they already hold.
- Legal deadline
- 30 days · UK GDPR Art.17 (erasure) and Art.21 (objection to direct marketing - absolute right)
- Re-lists
- No — once it is off, it stays off.
- Time it takes
- 5 minutesthey usually act within 120 days
- Last verified
- 7 September 2026
- Difficulty
- Easy
What Mailing Preference Service holds about you
- Name
- Postal address (as a marketing target)
How to get removed
- Register your name and address at mpsonline.org.uk.
- This suppresses you from most UK direct-mail lists.
- Allow a few weeks for post already in the pipeline to stop.
Voluntary - does not stop existing-customer mail, 'Occupier' mail, or non-members.
Why you come back
This one does not re-acquire, so a completed removal holds. Most do not: the holders that buy public records re-buy them about every four months, which is why the rest of this register is re-checked rather than ticked off.
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