Why Are You Giving Her That?

[Gizmo]

My aunt died like 20 years ago - Mom still sometimes gets mail for her.

We got credit card offers for the prior resident of my last place. I got to the point that I was writing "The dead don't need money" on the envelope as "deceased" just wasn't working..... funnily enough they stopped.

[catcul]

I often get advertising for retirement communities. I'm not even 40 yet.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I often get advertising for retirement communities. I'm not even 40 yet.

I just got a letter offering me life insurance for folks between 45 and 85 from Mutual of Omaha. And it insures you up to age 100!

I'm not 45 yet for about 5 more weeks. All I need now is to get an offer from AARP.

[drjonah]

I turned 40 last July. No biggie but now I'm getting ads for 'senior dating' AARGH

[CrappyToHelp]

My mother got an advertisement for life insurance in the mail a week or two ago. One problem with that: my mother passed away in 2008. I think they were a little bit late on that one!

We still get calls for my father.

"Hello, can we speak to Mr CrappyToHelp please?"
"You can't, I'm afraid."
"Can I leave a message?"
"You can do, but I can guarantee he'll never receive it."
"Can I ask why?"
"Because he's been dead since 2007."
"Oh."
*click*

Oh god. And once, we had someone pay for pizza online and come to our house with it. The delivery driver was told that it was for a man's sons, so wouldn't have the card he paid with. He kept trying to give it to us until we explained that our dad had been dead for six years.

On the bright side, he gave it to us as a pity pizza.

[Aethian]

All I need now is to get an offer from AARP.

I've been getting those since age 25.

[XCashier]

I've been getting those since age 25.

Same here. Yet my husband, who is 4½ years older than I am and in fact turned 50 a couple of weeks ago, has yet to receive any AARP stuff. Go figure.

[Monterey Jack]

We got credit card offers for the prior resident of my last place. I got to the point that I was writing "The dead don't need money" on the envelope as "deceased" just wasn't working..... funnily enough they stopped.

I used to get a ton of mail for the previous occupant on my apartment (I moved in nearly four years ago), until I finally had enough, scrawled, "DOES NOT LIVE HERE ANYMORE" on one of the envelopes, and stuffed it back in my mailbox. I've never received mail intended for this former occupant since.

[KatherineB]

I used to get a ton of mail for the previous occupant on my apartment (I moved in nearly four years ago), until I finally had enough, scrawled, "DOES NOT LIVE HERE ANYMORE" on one of the envelopes, and stuffed it back in my mailbox. I've never received mail intended for this former occupant since.

I wish that worked for me. I moved in on August 1 last year, gave the previous owners one month to get their shit together, then put a note on the last envelope I received saying "As of September 5, all mail will be marked Return To Sender." And yet I still get their bank statements, mobile phone bills, and even a letter to the Electoral Commission (we had a federal election on September 9) that you thought they might have felt were important enough to have redirected or to ensure that the relevant organisations knew they'd moved. If I considered a life of crime or fraud, I'd have had a field day! Idiots! And the mail hasn't stopped coming!

[Racket_Man]

I've been getting those since age 25.

Yup. got one or two AARP things in my early 30's

Same here. Yet my husband, who is 4½ years older than I am and in fact turned 50 a couple of weeks ago, has yet to receive any AARP stuff. Go figure.

I also turned 50 4 years ago and have yet to receive anything either.

[mjr]

I occasionally get these form letters from car dealerships in my area. There are a few things wrong with them:

1. They misspell my first name. Always. Which means it's on file that way.
2. They're clearly fakey-fake email printouts, with fakey-fake handwriting on them.
3. They always look like they're from the "manager" to a sales guy, saying to "reach out" to me about my car, because customers are "interested" in my year/make/model.
4. I drive a 2005 Honda Accord with over 140,000 miles on it. Nothing wrong with that, but I seriously doubt that people are going to a BIG, brand-name car dealership desperately searching for 2005 Honda Accords.
5. Sometimes they come with a "screen capture" of a fakey-fake text message exchange. They hedge, though, because they refer to me as "them" (as in, "I'll reach out to them"). Because they don't have my gender, which is male, on file.
6. They try to lure me in by trying to offer $6,000+ for my car. I know Hondas are known for retaining their value, but did I mention it's 9 years old and has over 140,000 miles on it??
7. They don't know this, but I'm planning on driving that car as long as possible. I really don't want another car payment right now. I just don't.

The Mrs. pulled off a good one several months back. I know people that work/have worked in the car sales industry won't like it, but we thought it was funny, just because of the ridiculousness of the situation.

Ok, she gets a flier in the mail from the dealership where she bought her car. And when I say "bought", I mean "paid cash for".

The little flier she got said they could "reduce her payments!!111!!!eleventy!!"

So she decided to have a little fun with them. She calls them up, and says something like, "I have a flier here that says you can reduce my payments." Then there's a pause, where I assume the person who answered the phone said something to her, probably along the lines of "What's your current payment?"

Her reply? "Can you beat $0 per month??"

Judging by what happened next, I can only assume the guy said no, because the phone call ended.

She hung up and we had a giggle.

[siskaren]

Same here. Yet my husband, who is 4½ years older than I am and in fact turned 50 a couple of weeks ago, has yet to receive any AARP stuff. Go figure.

I also turned 50 4 years ago and have yet to receive anything either.

Interesting. I turned 50 in October and got an application shortly before that.

[Racket_Man]

GF got5 one the other day.

a little background first
My GF has a degenerative brain disease and has not been able to drive for 2 and half years. she sold her car AND gave up her drivers license about the same time.
end BG

She got a mass mailing letter in the mail yesterday from a car insurance company advertising LOW LOW car insurance rates.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Regarding the AARP membership offers, my wife joined us up many years ago. Evey few months I get another offer from them to join. And I did call them once to get this fixed, but nothing changed.

Another odd letter I received was from the office I retired from 7 years earlier asking me to apply for the job I retired from. Of course this is the same agency that 30 years ago sent me a letter saying they had no position for me after I had already been hired by them.

[Shalom]

a letter to the Electoral Commission (we had a federal election on September 9) that you thought they might have felt were important enough to have redirected

On this side of the planet, stuff from the Board of Elections can't be forwarded, as far as I know. If you move, they need to know where you've moved to, so they can put you in the right electoral district.

The little flier she got said they could "reduce her payments!!111!!!eleventy!!"

the person who answered the phone said something to her, probably along the lines of "What's your current payment?"

Her reply? "Can you beat $0 per month??"

Yeah, I did that once too. This was sometime in 1994, more or less, I'd just bought the '88 S10 Blazer that I'm still driving, and pulled into a Chevy dealer in Buffalo to get some kind of dealer-only part for it (the glove compartment door, I think it was). The salesman saw me getting out of it, hustled over and said "I can get you into a new Blazer for the same payments you're making now." I told him, "Yeah, I'd like to see that, because this one's paid off." He laughed and said he guessed he couldn't do that, then.

"Because he's been dead since 2007."
"Oh."
*click*

Someone once called me up demanding my grandfather's new address. I don't know why he was asking me, given that Zayde had never lived at my address, but I still told him. "Plot ###, Beth Moses Cemetery, Wyandanch NY 11798."

They weren't all that happy with that answer, but that's where he was at the time...