Posted on 07/17/2010 12:42:31 PM PDT by stayathomemom
In the last 3 months I have received about 300 pieces of mail from 88 sources, all political causes, asking for money. This is an invasion of my privacy. How do I make these go away? This is angering as I wish to support conservative causes, but these incessant requests are irritating the hell out of me. I will choose when and where I give. Letters and calls do no good. I thought of getting a P.O Box #, changing a credit card address to the P.O. Box, and sending change of address letters to these 88 in the hopes they would send crap to the box, which I would just visit every couple of weeks and throw away the contents. Is there any way to stop this harassment?
me too.
I wish the most pressing issue in my life was too much junk mail.
A do not mail registry affects the for profit mailing lists, those which are for non-profits aren't under the same obligation to remove your name simply because you've requested to have your name removed from mailing lists, however, almost every company has a self imposed requirement to remove names at request.
Call one of the smaller organizations which is soliciting your help, and ask to talk to the fundraising coordinator. They'll be most likely to give you the answer where they got the list, and the contact information for the company. Most times, these companies have a simple online form you can fill out to purge your name from their lists, however, understand that it does it once. You'd be best served to use this form after each election.
And trust me, I'm in California, I know your pain, got 85 mailings before the last election. I just keep a trash can near the mailbox just to toss these mailings away.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Used to be you could just buy ONE UP lists of preprinted addresses.
Where is this term "ONE OFF" coming from ~ I simply don't recall the term being used during the many years I was one of a half dozen "world's greatest experts" in things having to do with addresses, lists and mailing labels of all kinds.
I've heard the term on TV recently as well.
If you want enough junk mail as fuel to keep you warm in the winter, join the NRA.
If it is a post paid envelope, tape it to a brick or phone book and send it back. My dad sent “Good Sam RV” a chunk of granite the size of a small headstone with the words “I have bigger rocks.”
Tape the ends together to make a continous loop.
Run for a couple of hours..............
Thanks to all of you for your helpful replies. I have synopsized my answers to all of your responses. They are as follows:
1. To those of you who suggested I should just chuck it, you missed the point. For the most part I don’t even open them. But it takes time for me to handle that crap, even just to visually sort it and throw it away, and nobody should be able to force me to have to take even that amount of time. The mail should not come in the first place.
2. For those who suggested sending various material back to the sender, I will do that. I loved the one about the brick to AARP, but I’m not sure I’ll go that far.
3. I can try the fax approach also.
To those whose responsed I did not mention, thanks. I will incorparate many of the techniques suggested in the posts.
Ron
I had some real fun when Jimmy Carter started sending me junk mail.
I would get as much paper junk mail as possible.
Go rent a cement grout mixer, mix up a thick slurry of shredded paper.
Buy some small diameter cardboard tubes, 4-6” in diameter would work for most people.Lowes, Home Depot etc. sell these.
Either precut to the desired length to fit in a wood stove or just fill up a tall tube and let it dry out in the sun for the rest of summer, saw the tube and all to make your own presto type of logs, reduce your heating bills at THEIR expense!
At the same time a person could save almost all combustible clean paper products, mixing in some sawdust will cover up any ink smells.
I file 100% of those in the recycle bag --- direct from mailbox to recycle.
There is an exception : political bullshit during elections where an issue or a proposition is so contentious that I can't unravel the value or threat of voting one way or the other. Then I rely on who endorses and who opposes it.
The kiss of death :
Endorsement my any progressive serving or retired politician; yes that includes RINOs.
Endorsement by any "entertainer."
Endorsement by ANY union, but most emphatically public employee, fire, police and teacher unions.
Endorsement by any groups set up with patriotic or ethical sounding names, usually created for the sole purpose of defrauding, the ignorant, the careless of the uninterested, for political benefit. Identifying these takes effort, but not all that much.
Hope that answers your question. ,
I always send back the prepaid envelopes with a largely written message of instruction penned all over whatever they sent me.
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