Another source of annoyance is snail-mail from charities who send you xmas cards, pens, or pre-printed stationary asking you to buy it. A few years ago we were getting bombarded with it. Following is a list of places that I had to contact to get our address removed.
FUSION EXCHANGE: brett@listfactory.com.au (mailing service covering lots of (dubious) charities - took me a while to track down as their business name does not reflect their business email)
BUSH HERITAGE SUPPORTER RELATIONS: info@bushheritage.org.au (no idea how we got this one)
ADMA:
The ADMA Do Not Mail Service does not apply to:
unaddressed mail, brochures, catalogues or leaflets
mail marketing from organisations that are not ADMA members
mail marketing from ADMA members where you have an existing relationship with the organisation.
contact@adma.com.au.
These 3 below were very unprofessional organisations and it took me ages to stop mail. INFO & NCC-SEDA seem to be 2 different departments handling Vision Australia who do not talk to each other,
Sometimes our details came out of the White Pages, other time they had been forwarded from a charity we really dealt with. As our name was misspelled in the White Pages, we knew which ones came out of the phonebook.
It was when we realised that we were donating to several different Heart, Cancer & Arthritis groups that I decided to look into what was going on. We had started out donating to just one of each and it somehow grew.
Desert Dweller said
05:04 AM Nov 19, 2018
We donated $20 to the Royal Flying Doctors Service 10 years ago, they've been sending us junk & begging letters ever since.
LLD said
09:10 AM Nov 19, 2018
Got to the point we just wrote "UNDELIVERABLE - Return to Sender" on anything asking for donations. If I got another I one chased up the organisation / department who was actually handing the mail-outs.
Now that I have "No Junk Mail" on my letter box, name removed from places who mine and sell addresses, "unsubscribe" to email mailing lists that I don't want, have a good junk filter on my "gmail" account, no longer have a landline, don't answer my mobile unless number is in contacts (but do review message bank), we have no unwanted communications. Catalogues that I really want to read are on-line.
Santa said
09:41 AM Nov 19, 2018
Desert Dweller wrote:
We donated $20 to the Royal Flying Doctors Service 10 years ago, they've been sending us junk & begging letters ever since.
Yep! it's a bit like feeding seagulls, the more you feed em the more they pester you, don't give them anything in the first place.
Dickodownunder said
09:55 AM Nov 19, 2018
RFDS is a very good cause.
They do appreciate financial support of any kind and I am absolutely sure the any receipient of their services is very appreciative as well.
We tried to donate regularly to the RFDS during our working life and as we lived and worked in more rural and remote areas we believed that support such as this is vital.
When we retired I politely told them of our change of circumstances and have not received anything promoting their cause since.
Maybe just phone them and asked to be removed from their mailing and contact list rather than group them into a list of nuisance spammers.
Anyone who is out and about in remote areas may need their help even if they think they are bullet proof.
Possum3 said
09:59 AM Nov 19, 2018
Many of the "Charities" are utilising collection agents that pass on as little as five cents in the dollar, there is one particular youth charity passing on one cent for every dollar collected - To help your favoured charity best is supply money directly to that organisation.
LLD said
12:29 PM Nov 19, 2018
There were 2 more collection agents I had to contact to get "charities" from mailing me.:
With many email servers you may have the opportunity to tag a message as spam or junk and the messages from that sender will automatically be sent to the spam folder.
This method is sometimes easier than trying to unsubscribe.
palaceboy said
01:34 PM Nov 19, 2018
LLD wrote:
Got to the point we just wrote "UNDELIVERABLE - Return to Sender" on anything asking for donations. If I got another I one chased up the organisation / department who was actually handing the mail-outs.
Now that I have "No Junk Mail" on my letter box, name removed from places who mine and sell addresses, "unsubscribe" to email mailing lists that I don't want, have a good junk filter on my "gmail" account, no longer have a landline, don't answer my mobile unless number is in contacts (but do review message bank), we have no unwanted communications. Catalogues that I really want to read are on-line.
I work for Aus Post as a night sorter albeit not for much longer after my 23 year stint there. I'm amazed to hear that your RTS's are having an effect, AFAIK the mailing houses just "bin" them.
You'd be amazed how many Return to Senders end up in the dead letter office as their return to sender PO boxes addresses on the back of the envelope close all the time.
Another source of annoyance is snail-mail from charities who send you xmas cards, pens, or pre-printed stationary asking you to buy it. A few years ago we were getting bombarded with it. Following is a list of places that I had to contact to get our address removed.
FUSION EXCHANGE: brett@listfactory.com.au (mailing service covering lots of (dubious) charities - took me a while to track down as their business name does not reflect their business email)
BUSH HERITAGE SUPPORTER RELATIONS: info@bushheritage.org.au (no idea how we got this one)
ADMA:
The ADMA Do Not Mail Service does not apply to:
unaddressed mail, brochures, catalogues or leaflets
mail marketing from organisations that are not ADMA members
mail marketing from ADMA members where you have an existing relationship with the organisation.
contact@adma.com.au.
These 3 below were very unprofessional organisations and it took me ages to stop mail. INFO & NCC-SEDA seem to be 2 different departments handling Vision Australia who do not talk to each other,
INFO@VISIONAUSTRALIA.ORG, NCC-SEDA@VISIONAUSTRALIA.ORG, admin@canteen.org.au
Sometimes our details came out of the White Pages, other time they had been forwarded from a charity we really dealt with. As our name was misspelled in the White Pages, we knew which ones came out of the phonebook.
It was when we realised that we were donating to several different Heart, Cancer & Arthritis groups that I decided to look into what was going on. We had started out donating to just one of each and it somehow grew.
Now that I have "No Junk Mail" on my letter box, name removed from places who mine and sell addresses, "unsubscribe" to email mailing lists that I don't want, have a good junk filter on my "gmail" account, no longer have a landline, don't answer my mobile unless number is in contacts (but do review message bank), we have no unwanted communications. Catalogues that I really want to read are on-line.
Yep! it's a bit like feeding seagulls, the more you feed em the more they pester you, don't give them anything in the first place.
They do appreciate financial support of any kind and I am absolutely sure the any receipient of their services is very appreciative as well.
We tried to donate regularly to the RFDS during our working life and as we lived and worked in more rural and remote areas we believed that support such as this is vital.
When we retired I politely told them of our change of circumstances and have not received anything promoting their cause since.
Maybe just phone them and asked to be removed from their mailing and contact list rather than group them into a list of nuisance spammers.
Anyone who is out and about in remote areas may need their help even if they think they are bullet proof.
Apple Marketing: dnc.defaultlastname@applemarketing.com.au
Newspol: p.mcphail@newspoll.com.au
This method is sometimes easier than trying to unsubscribe.
I work for Aus Post as a night sorter albeit not for much longer after my 23 year stint there. I'm amazed to hear that your RTS's are having an effect, AFAIK the mailing houses just "bin" them.
You'd be amazed how many Return to Senders end up in the dead letter office as their return to sender PO boxes addresses on the back of the envelope close all the time.