The playbook.

USPS photographs the front of every letter as it moves through their sorting machines. Informed Delivery emails you those scans every morning before the mail arrives. It's free, it works at any address including apartments, and almost nobody has it switched on.

• Go to informeddelivery.usps.com and sign in or create a USPS account.
• Verify your identity. USPS may confirm online or mail a code to your address. If they mail it, you're waiting a few days, then done.
• Turn on the Daily Digest email. That's the feed.

Tip: do this for every adult at your address. Each person gets their own digest.

Any AI agent that can read your email or browse alongside you can do this. You run it. We never see your account, your password, or your mail.

Paste this into your agent each morning, or set it as a daily task:

Read today's USPS Informed Delivery digest in my inbox (or open my Informed Delivery dashboard).

For each mailpiece expected today, tell me:
- who it's from
- whether it's addressed to me by name or to "resident" / "current occupant"
- whether the corner shows a bulk-mail indicia: PRSRT STD, ECRWSS, EDDM, or "U.S. Postage Paid / Permit No."

Anything with an indicia or addressed to "resident" is junk. List the junk senders separately.

For each junk sender, tell me the quickest way to make them stop:
- their own unsubscribe or "remove me from your mailing list" address
- DMAchoice (for member mailers)
- Catalog Choice (for catalogs)
- a USPS Prohibitory Order via PS Form 1500 (for anyone who won't quit)

Finish with a two-line summary: what's actually worth opening today, and how many pieces were junk.

Your agent's answer is your morning mail report. Save the junk sender list. It's step three.

Junk stops when the sender drops your address, not when you throw it away. These are the levers that exist today, in the order to pull them.

The sender's own opt-out

Most bulk mail has a "to be removed" line in the fine print or a customer service address. Fastest and most reliable for a specific company.

DMAchoice

The direct-mail industry's own suppression list, run by the ANA. Voluntary, slow (expect a few months), covers member mailers only, and the one thing here that costs money: $8 for ten years. Still worth doing once. dmachoice.org

Catalog Choice

Free opt-out for catalogs specifically. catalogchoice.org

PS Form 1500, the Prohibitory Order

The one with teeth. You tell USPS a sender's mail is unwanted, USPS orders the sender to stop, and further mail is a federal violation. The recipient's judgment is final by Supreme Court ruling. One form per sender, filed at any post office or by mail. Use it on the ones that ignore everything else.

We're building the agent so you don't have to paste a prompt every morning. Same rule: your account, your login, we never hold it.