Are your parents elderly and receive alot of unwanted mail asking for donations?

[Mightymusic915]

You can register their name, addy and phone number with the following.
Mail

The Direct Marketing Association’s (DMA) Mail Preference Service lets you opt out of receiving unsolicited commercial mail from many national companies for five years. When you register with this service (for a $1 fee), your name will be put on a “delete” file and made available to direct-mail marketers. However, your registration will not stop mailings from organizations that do not use the DMA’s Mail Preference Service. To register with DMA’s Mail Preference Service, go to http://www.dmachoice.org.

Sample Opt-Out Letter (Send to addresses listed above.)

Date

To whom it may concern:

I request to have my name removed from your marketing lists. Here is the information you have asked me to include in my request:

FIRST, MIDDLE & LAST NAME
(List all name variations, including Jr., Sr., etc.)

______________________________

CURRENT MAILING ADDRESS

______________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

PREVIOUS MAILING ADDRESS
(Fill in your previous mailing address if you have moved in the last 6 months.)

______________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER

______________________________

DATE OF BIRTH

______________________________

Thank you for your prompt handling of my request.

______________________________
Signature
If You Have a Complaint

The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to provide information to help consumers spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint or to get free information on consumer issues, visit ftc.gov or call toll-free, 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357); TTY: 1-866-653-4261. The FTC enters consumer complaints into the Consumer Sentinel Network, a secure online database and investigative tool used by hundreds of civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad.


However if your parents initiate or "volunteer" information or sign up for sweepstakes, giveaways and other "contests" their info will be back out for the vultures.



https://www.donotcall.gov/

[Peppa J]

When I was taking care of my parents they got a lot of this type of mail. I think once you make a donation, you are on a list and then everybody sends out solicitations. I tore up this kind of mail.

When I get these letters I call the companies and tell them to take me off their lists. That works.

[Ginger H]

I do the exact same thing Ol Geezer does; pack it up and mail it back in their return envelope.