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Yes, reading a plan document for hours, droning on and on, is certainly a way to provide clarity on a plan. not
I think California might be unique in having so many plans available. Now is that a good thing or a badthing? Maybe there needs to be one document, sent out by a public interest group, that compares the salient features. Kind of like the league of women voters used to do for the elections.
BTW, I predicted what you meant from your title. It is not quite as bad in NC but there is a lot of direct deposit from mailbox to trashcan.
It's a good thing overall. More competition equals better prices and better service as a general rule. I was just focusing on one aspect which is mildly irritating, namely the high volume of "direct deposit" as you so charmingly put it.
Escort, I've never gotten anything like that, and I've had medicare for 10 years. I just have straight Medicare, do you think that might have anything to do with it?
Not that I want it, I don't need more paper.
Yep, it means no one has hoodwinked you yet. Stay that way. I am.
The only annual mailings I receive this time of year are the "Medicare and You" booklet and info from my Medicare Advantage plan.
Used to receive junk mail from AARP but that ceased after I phoned and had my name removed from their mailing list (same with all of the useless catalogs, etc.).
Yes I did that with AARP as well. Here's the catch though - if you move you are fair game again until you call and redo the do not send. I moved every couple years until recently and each time they somehow quickly found me and started mailing again.
AARP wouldn't leave me alone so each time I received their literature I would write across the front that I was not interested and then I'd put all the papers into their prepaid envelope! Took a few times doing this and they finally
stopped. Guess they didn't like having to pay the return postage! They are pests!
I did want to add that you can get the Medicare handbook sent via email attachment and that way if you ever have
to refer back to it you have it online. They send it once a year. Saves all that paper. I always go paperless whenever it's an option.
AARP wouldn't leave me alone so each time I received their literature I would write across the front that I was not interested and then I'd put all the papers into their prepaid envelope! Took a few times doing this and they finally
stopped. Guess they didn't like having to pay the return postage! They are pests!
I did want to add that you can get the Medicare handbook sent via email attachment and that way if you ever have
to refer back to it you have it online. They send it once a year. Saves all that paper. I always go paperless whenever it's an option.
Yes I did that with AARP as well. Here's the catch though - if you move you are fair game again until you call and redo the do not send. I moved every couple years until recently and each time they somehow quickly found me and started mailing again.
This will only happen if you put in a 'permanent' forwarding (one year, till expiry). The USPS forwarding system will notify mailers of your new address, and then you are sunk.
A better option when you move, is to check off the "temporary" box at the top of the form. I know you can get forwarding for as long as 9 months (what I always choose), but it may be longer. Ask, and be sure to tell your letter carrier that after the forwarding expires, to return mail as "Moved, left no address". Otherwise, any redidual mail to your old address, will be delivered there. At any rate, 9 months is plenty of time to change your own addresses.
The upside? With a "temporary" forward, none of your correspondents will be notified of your move!
I know all too well the annual deluge. Annoying, isn't it. It fills the trash bin and, sadly, the landfill. What a crock in which I have not the slightest interest.
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