While Sylvia was visiting her dad on Tuesday this week, the mail came. There is nothing unusual about that. There were 12 pieces of mail in his roadside mailbox. He brought the mail into the house, sat in his recliner and began to look through it.
As he opened each piece he would look at the contents and drop them on the floor beside his chair. Each of the 12 pieces was a solicitation for a donation to the sender’s cause.
And here is all of Tuesday’s mail. Nothing but appeals for funds. Do you receive requests like this? Have you ever received that many in one day? Makes one wonder.
It's very very rare that we receive mail like that. Certainly never that many in one day.
Well, I've never received 12 in one day but I do receive them everyday. Once you donate to a cause, your name gets sold to every other cause out there.
Not sure I ever got 12 in one day. But I am always annoyed at the ton of mail I get if I send so much as $5 to a cause. I do tithe, and will give when I can. I don't like the constant jabber. I support one cause that sends two letters a year, period. It is on plain paper, one color, a single-spaced, long recitation of what they have done with money over the past year. I actually read it and most years, send them another donation. I suppose it helps that the org was started by someone we know, but I feel very secure that they are not wasting my (God's) money.
I am going through this with my grandparents. Solicitors prey on the elderly, especially those who have made donations in the past.:-(
You can help him opt out through dmachoice.org for donation requests and http://www.optoutprescreen.com for credit offers.
Hmm.. that's a lot of mail for one day 🙂