How to Stop AARP Mail

Stop AARP magazines, bulletins, and membership offers

1. Keep one recent piece. Save the exact recipient name, delivery address, and AARP member number from the label.
2. Contact AARP Member Services. Use AARP's official contact page, its chat option, or call 1-888-687-2277.
3. Name every category you want stopped. Ask to stop the AARP Magazine, AARP Bulletin, membership offers, renewal mail, and other printed marketing that you no longer want.
4. Keep the confirmation date. In its 2024 support replies, AARP staff advised allowing 6 to 12 weeks for mail to stop after a preference change.

AARP's own support staff give the Member Services phone, chat, and private-message routes in its official mail-preference support thread.

Limit sharing for AARP partner offers

A request to stop AARP publications is different from a request to limit information sharing with companies that offer AARP-branded products or services. The AARP privacy policy describes these separate choices. Open the AARP Privacy Hub and choose Right to Opt-Out of Sale. Its linked form is headed Right to Opt-Out of Sharing.

The official sharing opt-out form asks for your email address, first and last name, state, postal code, and date of birth. The 10-digit AARP member number is optional. Complete this request yourself on AARP's site; the form requires you to confirm that you are acting on your own behalf.

Keep verification details private: enter your date of birth only on AARP's official form. Do not send it to Junk Mail Magic or post your address, member number, or other account details in a public support thread.

Ask for both changes when needed: stop AARP's own printed mail and limit sharing for partner offers. One preference may not make the other change.

Why AARP mail may continue

• The piece was already prepared. Allow the stated processing window before judging the request.
• Another membership record exists. A former address, different email, or second member number may point to a separate record.
• The sender is not AARP. A company may have your address from another source even if its offer mentions an AARP benefit.
• The mail is account-related. AARP may still send necessary membership or transaction notices after marketing preferences change.

If a later piece has a different label

Compare the recipient spelling, address, and member number with the record used for the first request. Contact AARP again with the exact new label if any detail differs. For mail from an unrelated company, contact that sender separately or use our U.S. junk mail guide.

Where Junk Mail Magic fits

Use AARP's official routes for AARP publications and membership preferences. For a separate offer whose sender is unclear, photograph the piece so Junk Mail Magic can identify the company and prepare a sender-specific removal request.