My mom still gets mail, and ironically, Capital One keeps sending credit card offers to our (now dead) pet rabbit, despite the fact that I have told them to stop. The rabbit also got offers for scholarships from the U.S. Army.
Ugh. Forgot to mention that my mom has been dead since 2005.
This is horrible, but she can have a little fun at the junk mailers expense. just put the crap from junk mail A into the pre paid envelope of junk mail B, and so on.......then take the most offensive one, and tape the pre paid return envelope to a brick and mail it...they will have to pay the additional postage due.
After my dad died he received an offer for a credit card in the mail. My mom called them and said that he had died but she would still want the card. They turned her down.
She then called them up and "suggested" that they reconsider. They offer a card to a dead man but won't offer a card to a live woman, probably not a great idea.
She received the card within a few days.
I remember in the mid 90s I was at my grandmothers' house and she got a telemarketing call for my grandfather.
He died November 22, 1971.