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Hopefully folks are putting all this trash mail in the recycle bin. They have trash bins in our mail room but I know it's not
exclusively for recycling so I bring my mail home so I can put it in my recycling bucket. Plus I always shred the part that
has my name and address on it!
During my mom's last couple of years alive, we had all her mail sent to my house for handling. When she died I submitted the form at DMA.org to stop the junk mail. It took a few months but it eventually cut out most of it, including the medicare solicitations.
For the few things that kept coming, I opened the envelopes and if there was a return form of some sort, I wrote in big block letters with a sharpie: "Deceased, please remove from your mailing list" and sent it back. Most of the time, it was postage paid by the sender but for some I had to provide the stamp.
The DMA registration took care of most catalogs but there a couple for which I had to look closely at the inserts to find out how to remove her name from their list.
It took less than a year to stop it all.
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Originally Posted by golfingduo
I think the only sure way of stopping all of that. Move and leave no forwarding address. I admire your hard work on this though.
Yes, packing, moving, and leaving all your mail behind is SO much easier than filling out a web form and marking and and examining and returning a few mailers.
If you are not yet 65 you may not know what I am talking about, but the thread title is referring to the annual deluge of paper we get advertising the various Medicare plans. I think it's good to receive information, as we may want to change plans, and the different insurers are obviously eager for our business. But the enormous flood of paper seems like a waste to me because I am quite satisfied with my current plan and I know I am not going to change. I suppose there is nothing to be done about it, as companies have the right to advertise their products in our society.
I've always received a lot of junk mail, but now it's even worse. I'll be 65 in a couple of months and I'm beging bombarded with ads for Medicare Supplements, Medicare Advantage plans, Prescription Drug Plans, AARP memberships, solicitations for retirement planning, annuities, credit card offers and more. I get ads for hearing aids, eyeglasses, funeral planning, and final expense insurance.
AARP ignores me, I've never received anything from them and am not offended. I do get occasional oversized postcards for competing Medicare plans, which I use in place of a dustpan because they hug the floor so closely.
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Yes, packing, moving, and leaving all your mail behind is SO much easier than filling out a web form and marking and and examining and returning a few mailers.
