When I got my NRA life membership, I got an email from a service rep thanking me. I replied to that email and told him my only request is that I don't get a high volume of mail from the NRA.
Other than my monthly magazine, I've only received voter information. They've respected my request.
I get more crap from the SAF and GOA individually than I've ever gotten from the NRA.
Is the NRA going to stop their fundraiser mailing? No. Never. Why? Because it pays off. I've read that every dollar spent on fundraising results in $10 in donations. They need money and it's a way to get money. As a concerned gun owner and 2nd Amendment activist, I hope they continue their fund raising.
However, I know too many people who stopped their NRA membership because of the mailings. The NRA needs to make the no fundraising mailer a little more well known to its membership.
I dont't want them to stop fund raising, either,but rather to put more effort into getting new members.
The problem with such statistics is that they fail to consider whether a person who sends in $10 in response to one solicitation may reduce future domations as a result. If a solicitation causes someone to send in $10 now that they would have sent in later, the $10 will be credited as being a "result" of that solicitation, even though it really won't be.