As part of my I Buy Junk Mail program, a fabulous reader sent in the mailer below.
The Distribution Processing Center appears to send out the mailer, as you can see below, using what might be interpreted as an official-looking form.
Keep your eyes open for mailers from the Distribution Processing Center, PO BOX 1748, KENNESAW GA 30156-9855.
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The outside of the envelope does not offer any clarification information.
However, it does offer up a different mailing address: Distribution Processing Center, PO Box 689, Marietta, GA 30061-0689.
In my opinion, mailers like this can be potentially problematic when they can be misconstrued as official government forms, ask for personal information, and don’t disclose how the information may be used.
The last time I wrote about the Distribution Processing Center was in 2022. Logically, the mailer must work to have a version still in use.
My advice is to take a moment to contemplate who you are giving your information to before just filling out the form. Is this a lead generation company? Will your data be sold?
It looks like they are still dying to get your information.
Same letter for Pa. Mailed back envolpe with expired cupons in it.
Unfortunately they’re still coming, just got one yesterday. Worked great for starting the wood stove!
I have also received this exact mailer, but the information states that it is for the State of Kentucky. My curiosity peaked when I started doing research and looking into the complaints sent to the BBB. Some of the many complaints do have responses, which all suggest that if you don’t want to receive their mailings, then you need to go to DMAChoice.org to opt out. When I looked at DMAChoice.org, there is a fee to opt out of mailings. Now, that seems quite odd that you will receive these generic mailings for EVERY state, but for a fee to DMAChoice.org, you can stop them. Has anyone considered that the mailings are being distributed by ANA (who owns DMAChoice.org), in order to get paid to have them stop. After looking at Georgia’s Secretary of State website, the previous owner of the PO Box’s on the letter and return envelope are companies that have been dissolved. As there is no officially licensed business with the Georgia Secretary of State currently listed at those PO Box’s, then that would indicate that the Distribution Processing Center is not a legitimate and licensed business.
Send them back the empty envelope.
THAT is a GREAT idea