As I’ve written previously, I’ve been trying for almost a year to eliminate junk mail from my mailbox. The main strategy I use for this is, quite simply, to ask the organizations that send me junk mail to stop, and to escalate my request when it goes unheeded. In extreme cases, where the escalation is… Read More: “American Friends of Tzohar”: disreputable, money-wasting charity »
Do you get a lot of junk mail? I mean the kind that arrives on paper through the able ministrations of the U.S. Postal Service, not the kind that arrives via email. You know, mail-order catalogs, promotions from the phone company, requests for money from charities, that sort of thing. Do you throw most of… Read More: Fighting junk mail, one envelope at a time »
April 25, 2008 Bill McCollum Attorney General The Capital PL-01 Tallahassee, FL 32399-1050 E-mail: ag.mccollum@myfloridalegal.com Dear Mr. McCollum: I am writing to bring to your attention a fraudulent charity that is operating out of Florida and scamming well-meaning individuals. I received a solicitation yesterday for an organization calling itself “Macular Degeneration Association” and which identifies… Read More: Fraudulent charity warning: Macular Degeneration Association / American Medical Research… »
The Perkins School for the Blind used to be on the list of charitable organizations which my wife and I support. At some point I donated to them on-line through their Web site, providing my email address at that time so that they could send a receipt via email. They subsequently used that address to… Read More: Perkins School for the Blind: inveterate spammers »
On November 26, I contacted The March of Dimes through a form on their Web site, asking them to remove me from their postal mailing list. (This was not because of a specific grievance against The March of Dimes; I’m trying to get us removed from all mailing lists to reduce wasted time dealing with… Read More: Why not to donate to The March of Dimes »