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Fidelity sent me a reply:

Dear Mr. Householder:

Fidelity’s product and service emails are generated by various systems and departments within our organization. The 10 business day window allows us the time we need to ensure all systems have been given the appropriate notification to stop delivery to your email address. We appreciate your patience while we fulfill your request.

We greatly appreciate your business, Mr. Householder, and we are very pleased to be able to assist you in reaching your financial goals. If you have any other questions or comments, please send us another email at any time. I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Sincerely,

Greg Walters
Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC, Member NYSE, SIPC

It’s weird, because the second you sign up, they send you a bunch of emails from their “systems and departments” and also earmark an entire tree to turn into various mailings. So turning on is instant, and off takes days…

Thankfully, they didn’t send me any other spam emails after this.

Fidelity sent me some spam, so I replied with “UNSUBSCRIBE” and they sent me this:

Dear Mr. Householder:
I have placed a stop email request for the email address listed below.
blake8086 @ gmail . com

Please allow 10 business days for the stop to become effective. Your email address will be removed from future marketing and product messages.

So I replied:

10 days? That’s ridiculous. Why could it possibly take you ten days to stop something that travels literally at the speed of light?

10 days would be a long time to send a letter to them and have them send a confirmation. The mind boggles at why anything email could take 10 days.