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  • #1

    Just a little venting - I may have posted about this before

    We are a charity. We get many of our donations by mailing out small solicitations.
    They are made of paper, not poisonous snakes. If you don't like them, you can either toss them or call us up and we can remove you from our mailing list.
    What you do NOT need to do is call us up screaming because you received a mailer from us! Nobody dies from you receiving the mailer. The world does not stop spinning because you received the mailer. It is NOT a waste of paper to send out the mailers since we get a lot of donations by sending them.
    And as I said, we can take you off the mailing list. All I have to do is transfer you to that dept. and they will help you. If they are on the phone, IT WILL NOT KILL YOU TO LEAVE YOUR NAME AND NUMBER SO THEY CAN CALL YOU BACK, YOU FUCKING MORON! IT DOES NO GOOD TO CALL US UP AFTER NOT LEAVING THEM YOUR NAME AND NUMBER BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO SPEAK TO A LIVE PERSON!!!
    WE DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO THE MAILING LIST, YOU FUCKING MORON!!!

    LEAVE YOUR FUCKING NAME AND NUMBER, DUMBASS!!!

    There, i feel better now. :-)
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  • #2
    I have to admit, I'm not a fan of unsolicited snail mail solicitations. But geez, I don't freak out. I either ignore & add them to my recycle bin. If they come often enough for me to be really annoyed at the wasted use of resources, I call & ask to get my name removed.
    People like that must either live in a constant state of anger if the smallest of things bother them so much, or they have such perfect lives that the tiniest annoyance rates such attention.

    Madness takes it's toll....
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    • #3
      Meh, I just use junk mail to light the fire in the grill. Or recycle it, no biggie. Nothing to get your panties in a knot over.
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      • #4
        These are the same people whose lives are ruined when I run out of slushies or the soda machine doesn't work, or there are no pretzels.
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        • #5
          The only time I got really annoyed by junk mail solicitations was when we were getting stacks of "you're pre-approved!" mailings from a specific credit card. Only thing was, we'd actually applied for one of those cards, using the "pre-approved" form, and been rejected.

          And yet we still got as many as 3 offers a week, for months after we'd asked them to stop, saying we were totally pre-approved. For a card they wouldn't give us.

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          • #6
            My dad likes to send all business mail back to the business stating the "No thank you" option so that he can waste their money that they paid for postage. It's not much, but it makes him feel better.

            For mailers from charities requesting donations he considers and if no he'll just toss it into the recycle bin. I personally don't mind the mailers from charities.

            Edit: Used "for" too many times, so reworded the phrase
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            • #7
              Recycle, or if it is not shiny paper, ripped up, soaked in water and compressed into a sort of fire log replacement. They make a spiffy doohicky to make almost logs =) The God-sprogs like helping out.
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              • #8
                Quoth manybellsdown View Post
                The only time I got really annoyed by junk mail solicitations was when we were getting stacks of "you're pre-approved!" mailings from a specific credit card. Only thing was, we'd actually applied for one of those cards, using the "pre-approved" form, and been rejected.

                And yet we still got as many as 3 offers a week, for months after we'd asked them to stop, saying we were totally pre-approved. For a card they wouldn't give us.
                By any chance, is this "Yankee Speedy" with the picture of the Roman centurion? If so, I've got a story about their "pre-approved" offers. When I was a kid, I bought electronic components by mail order (paid by money order). The company I dealt with must have sold their mailing list, because I started getting "pre-approved" applications from "Yankee Speedy". Eventually I tired of this, and wrote them a letter (used their business reply envelope to send it, so they paid the postage). I told them that I refused to do business with any company that sent pre-approved credit applications to 13 year olds who had never held a job. For some reason, their mailings stopped.
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                • #9
                  Quoth wolfie View Post
                  By any chance, is this "Yankee Speedy" with the picture of the Roman centurion? If so, I've got a story about their "pre-approved" offers. When I was a kid, I bought electronic components by mail order (paid by money order). The company I dealt with must have sold their mailing list, because I started getting "pre-approved" applications from "Yankee Speedy". Eventually I tired of this, and wrote them a letter (used their business reply envelope to send it, so they paid the postage). I told them that I refused to do business with any company that sent pre-approved credit applications to 13 year olds who had never held a job. For some reason, their mailings stopped.
                  Nah, just "generic big credit card bank". I can't even remember why they wouldn't give us one; we've had no problem getting credit since then. But I've seen stories where companies won't stop sending credit card solicitations to peoples DOGS, so I'm not surprised at the 13 year old thing!

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                  • #10
                    Quoth manybellsdown View Post
                    But I've seen stories where companies won't stop sending credit card solicitations to peoples DOGS, so I'm not surprised at the 13 year old thing!
                    Actually, "Yankee Speedy" DID stop sending me the "pre-approved" applications after I wrote to them.
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                    • #11
                      Quoth Sheldonrs View Post

                      LEAVE YOUR FUCKING NAME AND NUMBER, DUMBASS!!!
                      The name is "Dumas".
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                      • #12
                        Quoth EricKei View Post
                        The name is "Dumas".
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                        • #13
                          Quoth EricKei View Post
                          The name is "Dumas".
                          Quoth Zoom View Post
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                          • #14
                            Quoth EricKei View Post
                            The name is "Dumas".
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