Posted on 07/15/2010 3:40:10 PM PDT by JoeProBono
FORT WORTH, Texas- A Texas woman said her father receives so much junk mail that his house is full of letters and on a recent day he received 96 pieces of mail.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported the Fort Worth woman and her 81-year-old father, whose names were not released by the newspaper, said the man's house is littered with junk mail, including a 3 1/2-foot pile of letters on his breakfast table.
The woman said her father, who received 96 pieces of junk mail Monday alone, gives about $2,500 a year to various charities and began receiving junk mail in amounts too large to fit through his mail slot about a year ago.
The daughter said she has been mailing the companies to ask them to take her father off their mailing lists, but the process has been slow.
"How many others is this happening to?" the daughter asked. "This isn't right. Our seniors shouldn't be treated this way."
I have come to the point where I only give cash and don’t worry about a deduction. It’s not worth it to go through what you have to go through for years after donating to what you think is a worthy cause. They will hound you to death.
Why is it littering the house instead of being in the trash?
The old man sounds like a pack-rat.
Postmaster General: “Kramer, I’ve been, uh, reading some of your material here. I gotta be honest with you: you make a pretty strong case. I mean, just imagine. An army of men in wool pants running through the neighborhood handing out pottery catalogs, door to door.”
Kramer: “Yeah! Ha ha.”
Postmaster General: “Well, it’s my job. And I’m pretty damn serious about it.”
I rollup all junk mail and bind it and burn it
Big problem with seniors, don’t let them give any money to anybody, or your house will fill up & phone never stop ringing from beggers, industrial strength beggars.
I remember a story of some guy who wanted all the junk mail he could get.......he had this process where he mixed it into this slurry, then into drying molds, for logs for his fireplace. Somehow he removed all the harmful stuff from the paper....
excellent idea
my first thought on reading this was can it be used as home heating fuel, LOL
At least the pile of mail will slow the Jehovah Witnesses down from preying on the elderly...
Junk mail is indeed a scourge, but I also despise having to clean trash flyers off of our porch every single day, dropped off by some less than reputable looking characters. They tie ads on the front door handle, drop them onh the porch, and shove them in the crack of the door. The ones on the porch blow around the yard.
I don’t see why residents can’t opt out of both types of junk, in the mail box and on the property.
Somewhere in that house is a lost post-it-note that says :
Buy trashbags
My mail box is at the corner. One of those clusters.
Circulars, store ads, and all other junk mail that doesn’t have my name and address on it?
I stuff it in the large bin that is for oversized packages.
Why not call the company on the ad?
Give them a few minutes of your time and express your opinion of them throwing that “trash” on your porch.
I’m sure they’d love to hear from you.
.... insert evil sarcastic laugh here....
Y'all need an 81 YO to take care of to broaden your outlook!
Plenty of people give $2500.00 and over to charities and they don’t get a ton of junk mail.. I wonder which charities they gave to.
When I was in college we had one professor that everyone hated with a passion. So as the years went by about 30 of us would sign him up, his university mail box for as much junk as we could find.
Anything from those give away boxes in the liquor stores, credit card offers at the airport to magazine adds for information on everything from parenting guides to cook books.
I know that I alone must have signed him up for over a 100 different things.
Another guy claimed about 200 and God only knows just how many more folks got wind of the scheme and joined in.
I can only imagine how many mailing lists his name and address is on.
That’s why I don’t send donations. They put you on “sucker” mailing lists.
I gave to a Christian charity once and I told them I want a minimal amount of mailings from them, soliciting money from me. They listened to me and I rarely if ever hear from them. I like it when an organization responds according to my wishes. Makes me thinks highly of them.
I gave $50 to a charity a few months ago and I swear they’re burning it all up on postage trying to get me to give more.
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