If you live in Finland, you have without a doubt interacted with Posti. Recently, they announced large changes in their user data processing policies, taking into effect on May 20th 2025.
Bottom of the line is:
- New targeted advertising (directly sending your data to Facebook, Google, Adform and many others)
- Profiling of your data
To avoid getting caught in this, visit the account settings page (on my.account.posti.fi), then on the left, select “settings”.
In there you will need to uncheck two options:
- “Use of customer data for targeted advertising (effective from 20 May)”
- “Profiling (effective from 20 May)”
Also feel free to clean up any options you might have forgotten to disable before.
As a friendly reminder: do not forget to press “save changes” on the bottom of the page when done with the unchecking part.
With this, you should be pretty safe to proceed, tho just in case, I’d still watch this page just in case Posti has a magical bug that would re-enable everything for everyone.
Personally, I find this whole thing kinda scummy given Posti is an essential public service. Forcing that kind of analytics on people can only go badly on the long term.