I know the feeling. My dad has been dead for many years and yet he still gets junk mail.
I'm sure other FRers have similar experiences.
My wife died in 2000. Every month she still gets in the mail a pre-approved credit card application. I have a shredder.
We get mail for my deceased father-in-law. He never lived with us. But after he died in 2002, my mother-in-law moved in with us in 2003.
I wonder what the sources are for this kid's info? Obviously these groups are just buying the lists from somewhere.
We gave my F-i-L a cat named Just Plain Tigger. He sent for stuff for him from a cat food company and had it sent to J.P. Tigger. They got all kinds of mail for him for years.
My daughter died in 2004 and I just toss any mail she gets. No big deal! Don't get the wrong impression. I miss her every day. She still gets junk mail about getting a car loan, etc. I have more important things to worry about such as my brother dying in May, 2006, my husband dying in July 2006 and my mom dying in January, 2007.
WOW!!!! Having my 1st child 4 months ago made me appreciate this article a lot than I would have a year and a half ago.
Yes...
and how about this: I heard that someone got hold of the social security number for a 10 yr old boy and used it to open up credit card accounts, etc. By the time it was discovered, the lad's credit was already ruined and he had nothing to do with it.
My dad died in 1992. He just recently got a credit card application.
I am saddened by your loss,and receiving this junk mail would make your pain amplified by these creatures.
18? Hell! I have been receiving crap mail from AARP for almost 10 years now and my returning their prepaid mailers with nasty comments on why I would never join their socialist, anti-gun organization has fallen on deaf ears....I still get their BS in the mail.
I think I am going to start attaching their prepaid envelopes to bricks and mailing them back.
oh I didnt read the whole thing....horrible.
Ohter than banning bulk advertising to specific individuals...I don't know how to get around this. You could mandate an xref of lists vs death records in a given area, but that seems impractical if the list entry point and the death are decades apart . It would also be pretty damned intrusive.
I guess we should just ban unsolicited advertising to specific addresses....
Very awful. At first I thought it was an anti-military story until I continued. Now I feel like a heel...
I thought it was bad getting baby advertisements for a year after I'd lost a baby - but the mind boggles at this.
Mrs VS
I tried begging my mail carrier not to stuff my mailbox with junk. He said he couldn't do that. I offered to pay him to not deliver it and he said he couldn't. When I didn't check my mail hoping the overstuffed box would discourage him from stuffing the box full of junk he stopped delivering my REAL mail, still stuffed my box full of junk mail and I had to go to the post office to pick up the real mail.
But, no, she insisted. She didn't mind the junk mail for a period of time. Then, the forwarding order expired, and some enterprising souls were re-entering my mom's (new) address, a place he had never seen, as his new address when the mail was being returned.
Eleven years later, she gets mail addressed to him at her "new" place.
They have different last names, so it's easy for her to tell the mail carrier that he doesn't live there. But when it's a new carrier, they go through this all over again.
I tried getting his mail forwarded to me a couple years ago. All that happened was that the post office sent me some of my mom's mail as well. In the meantime, she still got mail for him sometimes.
That snafu prevented me from enacting Plan B, which was to have his mail forwarded to a fictitious address in a place like Timbuktu or maybe Alaska.
I canceled the order for my grandfather's mail to go to me. But once again, someone updated their records when it got returned to them. Even though I myself have moved three times, I still get a credit card solicitation for him every month or so.