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We have received an unsolicited shipment of the following (copy of invoice
# __________ enclosed):________________________. We neither want nor have placed
an order for this material. We have not consented to "related publications" being made a
part of our subscription. The Postal Reorganization Act, 39 U.S.C. §3009 (2000) states
that the recipient of unsolicited shipments is under no obligation to either pay for such
shipments or return them. Returning material to legal publishers is addressed in the American
Association of Law Libraries Guide to Fair Business Practices for Legal Publishers
Principle 3, subprinciples 1(a) and (d). The Guide, approved by the AALL Executive
Board in 2002, is recognized by law librarians and publishers across the country as
the standard model of appropriate business practices. A copy of the Guide
is available at: http://www.aallnet.org/about/fair_practice_guide.asp Consistent with the statute and the Guide to Fair Business Practices, we are
proceeding as follows. We will retain this material for 30 days. If you send a postage paid
mailing label or make other suitable arrangements to retrieve this material at no cost and
minimal inconvenience to us, we will return this material to you. You may contact me at
000-000-0000. If we do not hear from you in 30 days, we will dispose of this material as
we see fit. Please remove any charges from our account and cancel any subscriptions
that may exist for this title. Do not send shipments of this nature to us again. Thank you.
SAMPLE LETTER: UNSOLICITED MATERIAL (Example 1)
Any Vendor
Publishing Company
Date:
Attn: Customer Service
100 Main Street
Anywhere, USA
Re: Account # UNSOLICITED MATERIAL Invoice #
To Customer Service:
Sincerely yours,
_____________
Librarian
cc: Sales representative
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