Someone must be watching our interests on our computers just to make a buck or two.... This just makes me mad when they start messing with my personal life.
Seriously?
Did you ever order from or subscribe to Quiltmaker, Fons&Porter,McCalls Quilting? Any of their sites?
They are just a few of the partners of TNmarketing.
http://www.tnmarketing.com/partners/
And almost every commercial publishing entity sells their subscription lists. List Rental Income is a very profitable line on every publishers P&L statement.
If you're unhappy about it and you don't want to be included, then simply contact either TNMarketing or the publisher directly, and tell them you want to be put on the DNP (Do Not Promote) lists.
If you really don't ever want to receive any promotional mail from any entity, then fill out the information under "More than just Mail" on this page:
https://www.dmachoice.org/dma/member...D3817.tomcat2#
This is the Direct Media Association. Most mainstream legit companies using direct mail will always include the DNP list when they run a merge/purge of the potential target addressees.
You could be missing out on a lot of things from which you might not want to be excluded. Just saying.
But you never, ever have to pay for an unsolicited "gift" mailed to you. However, to prevent further items arriving unwanted in your mailbox - that you might be responsible for - send back the postcard (or whatever).