if they do not mount a lawsuit against the new draconian NY gun laws, and soon, i will quit the NRA and spend future dues money on advertizements telling people to quit also...
Posted on 07/20/2013 7:24:25 AM PDT by CPONav
Since I joined the NRA, I seem to have become a magnet for junk mail, phone calls and unwanted products in the mail. I have had it with them. Here is my third letter to them.
This is my third email to the NRA staff and I am tired of being polite. Since I joined the NRA in January of 2013, I have been hounded with unsolicited email, mail, and phone calls regarding everything from gun rights to mail order brides and I am absolutely sick of it. I joined the NRA as a gun owner and enthusiast, a taxpayer concerned about my 2nd Amendment rights, and as a concerned citizen regarding education of firearms. I did not join the NRA to have unsolicited phone surveys on Saturday morning, emails selling Viagra, insurance, and women, or to receive products in the mail that I did not order and demanding payment by a company endorsed by the NRA. My first email regarding this issue went unanswered. My second email regarding this was answered with a "we will remove you from the contact list". The damage has been done, my email address, home address, and phone number have already been released to agencies that will likely further pass this information around in a never ending data trade off. I find this behavior and business practice reprehensible from an organization that claims to be working for its members. As of now, July 20, 2013, remove me forever from any and all of your data bases. Cancel my membership. Erase my existence from your organization completely. Wayne Lapierre, you should be ashamed of your organization and yourself for allowing this to happen.
Is anyone else tired of this crap? Dues paying members' information should never be traded on the internet and that is exactly what the NRA does.
Great idea!
I went through the same frustrating harassment from them when I joined about seven years ago. It took about six months of repeated, escalating, strident communications, and then finally electronic barriers for them to start leaving me alone. Never again.
But writing long angry letters to them isn’t going to help, it’s only going to go in their general mail bin along with letters from kooks (trust me, I once worked for a public library in their fund raising dept and you wouldn’t believe some of the letters I got; some were funny and some were downright threatening and disturbing, some we couldn’t even make any sense of). Do what mad_as_he$$ suggested call them and follow the instructions for opting out. Be calm and be polite but be firm and clear that you want to opt out. And don’t be surprised or frustrated if it takes a couple of weeks.
But as others have said, some of the phone calls and emails and junk mail you are receiving may have nothing to do with the NRA. Unfortunately spammers and junk mailers have lots of inventive ways of getting you on their mailing lists.
For instance, about ten years ago when I was purchasing a house, I found an error on my credit report by one of the major credit reporting companies that had my DOB wrong, I was only 40 but they had me as being over 60. That explained all the junk mail I got from the AARP and retirement communities and other offers for the “oldster crowd”. LOL! I got Experian to correct my credit report but I still kept getting the junk mail. And since the purchase of a home, i.e. a deed transfer is public record (as are births, marriages, divorces, bankruptcies, etc.), for months after I bought my house I was bombarded with junk mail directed at home improvements and re-fi offers, credit cards and such. Also if you have a credit card, take look at their privacy policies and opt out of “special” offers. Also look at any other orgs you belong to as well as any store “loyalty” cards you might have in your wallet and check out their privacy policies and opt out options.
Also try this:
Stopping Unsolicited Mail, Phone Calls, and Email
And FWIW, I dropped my land line years ago and have never regretted it. And I never give my cell phone number out to anyone I don’t personally know or absolute have to¸ especially merchants who ask for a phone number at the checkout – they will tell you they don’t use if for solicitations or sell your information but don’t believe them. They will use your land line number to get your home address and will use and or sell that information along with your purchasing preferences and you will soon be inundated with junk mail and or phone calls.
if they do not mount a lawsuit against the new draconian NY gun laws, and soon, i will quit the NRA and spend future dues money on advertizements telling people to quit also...
If you REALLY want to get pissed off at junk mail, try subscribing to Reader’s Digest....we did a couple of years ago, under a slight variation of wifey’s name - so we know the sh*t all originates from there.
I’ve been a life member for about 20 years and the only thing I get is the monthly magazine and a merchandise catalog around Christmas time. I also get a weekly newsletter via email.
The junk mail doesn’t really irritate me much, but I always wonder how much more they spend on postage and junk mail paper than the price of my yearly dues.
I’ve been a member for years. Outside of a couple
of insurance related mailings, I have never gotten anything from or through them.
[I think you might be blaming the NRA for things that have nothing to do with them.]
No, it’s from the NRA and who they give/sell member information to. I have “junk” email addresses for most organizations, but have never had to use it for an organization that I PAY MONEY TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH.
No more NRA for me.
I quit the NRA back in 2010 when they supported a number of Democrats, most of whom now support gun control.
Never ever trust a democrat and that includes the Dem light RINO’s.
“At least the NRA is out there trying to protect your 2nd amendment rights”.
IMHO they do an extremely poor job at protecting anything. Evidence lies at everyone’s feet, in that they have been in existence for every single egregious unconstitutional law enacted by the US Congress, in violation of “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED”.
While you weren’t watching the police forces and the military now have assumed the position of better armed than the populace. A situation our founders warned us about. This related to small arms much less all the other “hardware” those in question have at their disposal.
This is a long and shameful history and today the NRA justifies their non interventionist approach by grading candidates as to their supposed attention to the second amendment. Any grade given to an incumbent democrat much less a democrat seeking public office is asking to have your individual rights assaulted at the first opportunity. The same goes for RINO Republicans. You can’t trust a politician with your rights. They are God given and Congressionally removed.
Even though I’m a Life Member, I no longer financially support the NRA.
GOA and the JPFO get my support.
“While you weren’t watching the police forces and the military now have assumed the position of better armed than the populace. A situation our founders warned us about. This related to small arms much less all the other “hardware” those in question have at their disposal.”
The NRA has no control over the police and military. They exist to defend our individual 2nd ammendment rights. Which they continually do.
The NRA,the ARRL,the AARP are all more about keeping cushy jobs for the staff than truly benefitting the membership.
I believe they all see members as “suckers” to be milked of every dime.Bothe the ARRL and NRA want to steal your childrens’ inheritance by “estate donations”.Probably the AARP has a similar program.
Are you telling us that the NRA is sending you mail about mail-order brides?!
CPONav: “I have been hounded with unsolicited email, mail, and phone calls regarding everything from gun rights to mail order brides”
Sounds to me you are more interested in inciting against the NRA.
As others pointed it out:
“Opt Out
We also use your membership information to send you notices in the mail or by email about special member benefits, discounts and offers. If you do not wish to receive these mailings, you can: (1) opt out of email lists immediately by following the instructions at the bottom of the email; (2) email us using our Contact Us page, (3) call us at 1-800-672-3888; or (4) write to us at National Rifle Association of America, 11250 Waples Mill Road; Fairfax, VA 22030.”
http://www.nranews.com/resources/document/privacy-policy
“While you weren’t watching the police forces and the military now have assumed the position of better armed than the populace. A situation our founders warned us about. This related to small arms much less all the other “hardware” those in question have at their disposal.”
“The NRA has no control over the police and military. They exist to defend our individual 2nd amendment rights. Which they continually do”.
We may have to agree to disagree, but I will tell you that by their NOT protecting and defending our second amendment rights they allowed and assisted in the passage of law that directly gave police and military access to small arms that “we the people” no longer have access to, and thus they have proven unworthy of any confidence that they are doing what you say is their reason for existence.
This is exactly the issue that Neal Knox campaigned against in his bid to reform the NRA. Current NRA leadership (Wayne LaPierre) seemed to see the NRA as a cash cow to be milked. The current leadership won, Neal Knox lost, due mostly to illegal and immoral tactics that have been well documented.
In defense of LaPierre, it seems that he has come around to see that active defense of the Second Amendment is the best way to increase membership. The NRA lost a lot of members because of unidirectional “compromises” it was willing to make.
I stopped donating to the NRA many years ago, even though I am an endowment member. I believe that I get more bang for the buck from SAF, JPFO, or AZCDL.
Everyone has to make their own choices. I have found that once I stopped donating, the junk mail started to fall off after a couple of years.
“At least the NRA is out there trying to protect your 2nd ammendment rights. “
No, they are not. the NRA has been behind every single gun control legislation for the past 100 years, and even their poster boy Charlton Heston was instrumental in getting the 1968 Gun Control Act passed when it was failing. I haven’t seen the NRA try to revoke those laws.
Just three months ago you posted another anti-NRA rant:
NRA “benefit”
Posted on 04/20/2013 4:26:47 AM PDT by CPONav
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3010126/posts
You clearly have an agenda, trying to rile up conservatives against the NRA with FALSE accusations.
Busted!
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