True story here.. I was inundated with AARP crap once I turned 50 or 55 (can’t remember the exact timeline) and it went on for a couple years. I sent letters asking them to take me off their mailing list, emailed them to take me off their list, called them to take me off their list and finally filed a complaint with the BBB and said their tactics were harassment and threatening etc.
I received a letter asking me to call them (AARP) I contacted them and they asked me what they could do solve the BBB complaint and I said to take me off any mailing, email or calls list they had and make it permanent. The guy said “this may sound macabre, but if I put you in our system as deceased this will end all of the letters etc”.
I said “Consider me dead and make it happen”.
Took a couple months but everything stopped including all the AARP insurance crap as well.
Great idea cause I hate the spam mail, too.
I’ll have to try that.
What arrogant POS the AARP is, that they do not have an unsubscribe feature to their mailings and consider death to be the only reason one would not want them.
Thanks for that. You have given me some great ideas!
I have been trying that with the 92 yr old MIL’s catalogs...aaahhhggg...we had her mail forwarded to us temporarily...she gets EVERY CATALOG KNOWN TO MANKIND, I swear...and they are now coming to us....so I’ve started sending in address changes that say DECEASED....we’ll see.