"Special Offers"
I joined Good Sam for the discount at campgrounds although I'm not really sure I saved any money but I would never have joined if I knew that by doing so, I'd open the flood gates to all of the "speci...
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2gypsies wrote:
There really is a way to get off mailing lists - and it works.
Direct Mail Removal
We signed up 17 years ago went we started full-timing because we have a mail forwarding service and 'pay' to have our mail forwarded so we didn't want any 'extras'.
Along with doing the above, every time we subscribed to a magazine or ordered anything online or over the phone, we always ask that we not be put on any kind of mailing list. We don't want catalogs.
It took about a year of keeping on top of everything but for the past 16 years, we haven't received any kind of junk mail - not even those pesky credit card offers.
So it can be done!
Not entirely true. This is a voluntary program of the Direct Mail Association, a trade group of junk mailers. The mailer CAN send the list to DMA for cleaning. They pay a fee. No obligation to do so. It might help, but I am pretty sure Sam doesn't subscribe. Even if they did, member mail would be considered asked for by the member.
