Originally Posted by
Night Flyer
To answer your last question, you can use
www.optoutprescreen.com to get off the mailing lists (or more accurately to prevent the credit reporting agencies from supplying your info to the card issuers for "pre-approved" offers).
However, if you already have a citicard, it may not stop citi from sending you its own offers though (as the "do not call" list does not stop entities with which you have an existing relationship). I am sure there is an answer to that question but I don't know what it is.
OptOut is a good source but they are very, VERY slow in processing your request and they tell you it can take up to 12 weeks to get your name off of ALL the databases they have sold it to.