ok so i get the mail yesterday and i have six letters for people who want donations for the sheet of return address lables they send. Now i dont mind sending what i can but why is it they can never seeminly spell my name right, my name is Charlaine so i get, Charene, charlene, charles, charlie, and that doesnt even concider the botchery of my last name ugg. i never know what to do. I keep the ones i cam make work with a marker. anyone elce have this issue or is it me?
i just keep the labels and throw the rest in the trash. 
if my name is spelled correctly
hhmmm who has spelling issues??? 
if you can’t spell my name right, you don’t know me, and i won’t open the envelope. fair? economical, for sure!
they get your name off a mailing list, if they cared the mailing list would be correct. Personally I don’t send money to anyone who blind solicits me. There are enough local charities and ones nation wide ones that I know about that need my money.
Eric
Amazingly, I get none of those kinds of solicitations. Maybe word is out that no organization that ASKS me for anything ever GETS anything. I stay off mailing lists at all costs, and when I donate, it is anonymously.
But, Charlaine, look at it this way. If they ever send you a BILL for anything, and they can’t spell your name correctly, well, then the bill must not be for you, is it? Honestly, I have no idea who this “Charlene” person is…
I’m with Normand - Trash the trash and keep the benefits. 
yep been their done that alot lol
When we got married, my wife hyphenated her name to make things easier with kids. (6). People butcher her former last name something horrible. We keep teh good stuff, donate to some of it, toss the rest. When we want off a mailing list, the easiest way I have found is to tape the business reply envelope to a LARGE brick and send it back with a note that this will continues as long as they send me stuff. Have you ever figured what First Class Postage on a 32 pound cinder block would be? I don’t seem to have much trouble getting removed from lists.
Fill up that SASE with as much ‘stuff’ as you can. Be sure to put their page that identifyies you in there too. When they get it back & find they owe a couple $ postage for NO return… You’d be surprised how many mailing lists you can get off of.
Only donate to the ones you believe in. The rest are ‘chaff’ & need to be treated as such
Maybe it’s just me but most charities, especially those that send personal labels, are legitimate . Although I may choose not to contribute to them, I wouldn’t send them a brick etc. I could almost understand reacting that way to a “pre-approved” credit card solicitation but not to a legitimate charitable organization. My labels come from the VFW, American Legion, St. Jude Medical Center., March of Dimes, Salvation Army (?), American Cancer Society etc., hardly organizations deserving a “brick” in lieu of a donation or trashing their mailing.
There are some scams hiding under these high profile organizations using their names and logos to solicit the unwary public so a bit of caution should be applied before sending a donation ( caution with checks). Check em out but donate if you’re able.
Mark
I should have mentioned that this is a last resort. After you ask nicely a couple of times, hit them with the brick to get their attention. I did this the first time after telling one outfit for close to ten years that Dad was dead, I was not interested and that they needed to take him off the list. They finally did. I know it hurt them financially, but it also woke them up. I would venture to say that the list was much better maintained after that.
If I gave a penny to every “good cause” out there, my entire annual salary would not begin to cover it. If I belonged to every organization that does “good things”, I would never have a dime to spend on food or shelter. I donate to whom I choose, not because someone sends me a mass mailing. And, frankly, I will NOT give you money if you ask me for it.
It annoys me that so much money is spent on mailings, and so much of our mail system is clogged up with unsolicited junk mail (and I consider anything that is not personal or that I did not specifically request as junk). I could heat my house with the stuff I get sent (and have at times done so). If charities really want to do good, spend the money on what it is intended for and stop sending out stuff, stop filling inboxes with spam, stop having third-party marketing firms make cold calls, stop wasting people’s time and money.
Maybe we need the no-call list extended to no-mail and no-email lists? Think of the trees we could save!:rolleyes:
Ever notice how many "Annual Drives"there are in a given year!This prompted me to check my checking register&I now am pretty pod.I have tried to manage by donating every other month sending3 to 5$.I probably have one heck of a guilt complex.I wish it were January so I could make a resolution to
stop& just chuck em all.
One more thing on this.The biggies are not immune to this type of solicitation.