Unwanted stuff in the mail.

[carpriver]

Today in the mail I got a DVD on home defense from the NRA. If I wanted the DVD send them 12.95 or mail it back. My thoughts are to keep it and send them a nice thank you note for the nice DVD. If you didn't order it and it comes in the mail it's a gift isn't.

 

[arjay]

Classic ;-)

 

[smokindog]

Read the print material that came with it. It tells you there is nothing to compel you to purchase it OR return it!!!!

Today in the mail I got a DVD on home defense from the NRA. If I wanted the DVD send them 12.95 or mail it back. My thoughts are to keep it and send them a nice thank you note for the nice DVD. If you didn't order it and it comes in the mail it's a gift isn't.

 

[GaryS]

Today in the mail I got a DVD on home defense from the NRA. If I wanted the DVD send them 12.95 or mail it back. My thoughts are to keep it and send them a nice thank you note for the nice DVD. If you didn't order it and it comes in the mail it's a gift isn't.

In MA, by law that's exactly what it is. Unsolicited stuff is a gift since they can't compel you to pay for it. Other states might handle differently, I expect.

 

[SgtLumpy]

Pretty much everything that arrives in my snail mail box is unwanted these days. Except for those 25% off Harbor Freight flyers.

Important stuff like bills are all electronic and paperless.

I do get phone books. Actual, thick phone books. But they're not really delivered by US Mail. They're delivered by hand, guys walking down the street. Those phone books make great work bench helpers. Put them under something you're going to hammer or file or oil or drill. Saves the bench top.


Sgt Lumpy

 

[SavageSmoker]

I hate junk mail. I got an unsolicited DVD from the NRA once, didn't want it and took my time and energy to send it back, as instructed. The I kept getting notices from the NRA saying they have not received it yet and threatening to charge me for it. I had to spend more of my time calling them and explaining I already sent back the DVD. It wasn't until I threatened to not renew my membership that they took me seriously. I am a member of the NRA because I believe in the cause. When I have to deal with this type of **** it makes me think they are no better than any other sneaky money grabbing organization. I have not received any more unsolicited items from them since.

I also like to open those credit card offers I get in the mail, stuff the prepaid envelopes included inside with other junk mail (coupons for things like oil changes, pizza delivery, windows, carpet cleaning, etc.) and send them back to them on their dime. It's the little things that make me smile...

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

From experience, you'll get a call in a month or two. If you don't pay, they won't send you any more. I felt like a heal, on a junk VHS they sent me almost 25 years ago, that is until they threatened to not send me anything else! It was an empty threat, I still get ILA money begging letters almost monthly. When my dad wintered in Florida several years ago, his mail didn't get held by the USPS and his magazine got sent back. They think he died and don't send him anything! Ivan

 

[Poodle Soup]

Watch it and toss it with the rest of the **** they send you lol. Im still pissy that they send my girl stickers and hats and I just get life insurance papers.

 

[arjay]

And they can't figure out why they constantly lose membership,but I keep hearing "they are the best we have"
Strong arm the antis,not the pros ,you dumbasses.

 

[Hack]

They tried that on me a while back with some sort of commemorative coin. The coin ended up in the trash.

When I got the billing a month or so later, I informed them that I would be notifying the Michigan Attorney General's office, because what they were doing was probably illegal, not only in Michigan but probably several other states as well.

That was the end of it and any future junk.

 

[vito]

Junk mail doesn't bother me; its pretty easy to just toss it in the recycle bin. For whatever reason, ever since I became a Life member, the amount of mail from the NRA has DECREASED drastically.

I expect that shortly I will receive their annual push for gift memberships for the holidays, and sometimes I like to buy a one year membership for two of my sons, just to irritate them. They are both anti-NRA, and one is totally anti-gun (the other ironically, is in law enforcement but does not even keep a single gun in his home).

But as noted by others, receiving junk mail from the NRA is a small price to pay for having this organization represent the pro-2nd Amendment position at a national level. Who knows how much more of our freedom would have already been curtailed had it not been for the pressure exerted by the NRA.

 

[NYlakesider]

From experience, you'll get a call in a month or two. If you don't pay, they won't send you any more. I felt like a heal, on a junk VHS they sent me almost 25 years ago, that is until they threatened to not send me anything else! It was an empty threat, I still get ILA money begging letters almost monthly. Ivan

Right you are I got an unsolicited coin/medal of some kind years back (do not remember exactly what now) and it was nothing I wanted and gave it away. I did get two calls from the company that they demanded it back or pay for it. (It was from a private company but it appears the item was authorized by the NRA) The second call was a bit pushy and as I do not tolerate fools gladly I straighten them out with a "bit" of sharpness myself. Last unsolicited "GIFT" I ever got from them. Other NRA mail and donation mails kept acomming OK.

 

[shouldazagged]

I also like to open those credit card offers I get in the mail, stuff the prepaid envelopes included inside with other junk mail (coupons for things like oil changes, pizza delivery, windows, carpet cleaning, etc.) and send them back to them on their dime. It's the little things that make me smile...

I haven't done that in years. Really need to go back to it. Thanks for the reminder!

 

[mkk41]

I keep getting those return address labels ya put on letters from every vet or shooting related organization there is. Someone must think I send a thousand letters a year.

Who writes letters anymore?

 

[Brian41]

I got one of those DVDs from the NRA and ignored the letters I got asking for payment for it. They stopped and so has much of their letters asking for money. I guess it must put you on some sort of do not send list or something.
I still get mailing labels for my Dad who has been gone eight years now. I changed his address to mine when he died as I handled his estate and still get mailings for him. I'm afraid he must have been a sucker for giving money to all sorts of places as I got mailings for years from them. Slowing now but even get stuff for my Mom who has been gone close to twenty years and even stuff for my ex-wife and we were divorced in 1985 and she never lived at this address.

 

[zonker5]

I also like to open those credit card offers I get in the mail, stuff the prepaid envelopes included inside with other junk mail (coupons for things like oil changes, pizza delivery, windows, carpet cleaning, etc.) and send them back to them on their dime. It's the little things that make me smile...

Good to know I'm not the only one who does this.

 

[El Biblioitecario]

Recently I asked the people at a non-profit organization where I volunteer how to prevent the subsequent junk mailings I received after every donation I made. I could not get a straight answer. I have solved the problem by switching my donations to a more cooperative charity.

 

[H Richard]

I believe it's Federal that anything you receive unsolicited in the mail is yours with no obligation. If you don't like getting stuff from the NRA, you can call them and request to be on the "no mail" list. I did and have not received anything other than my American Rifleman (and Instructor renewal dues) from them.

 

[zzzippper]

I got the same mailing. I got it all ready to mail back and my wife put it out with the recycling! Now I keep getting bills. I will now recycle the bills and consider it a gift that I never even watched. I am a member of the NRA and support it but I am tired of them constantly creating ways to get money from me.

Read the print material that came with it. It tells you there is nothing to compel you to purchase it OR return it!!!!

 

[walkin jack]

This is just slightly off topic but while we're on the subject of unwanted or junk mail:

I was a huge fan of the late Andy Rooney. One of my favorite rants of his was junk mail. He said the one time he packaged up some old banana peels, coffee grounds, news paper, and assorted garbage and sent it to one of the junk mailers. He heard right back from them wanting to know how dare he send them his garbage. His reply was classic.

You felt free to send your garbage to me so I felt free to send my garbage to you.

I haven't done that yet but I may some day. It's just too good a thing to never do it.

I did write to a company that sends stuff to my late mother here at my address. I don't know how they took the news but i haven't heard from them for a year or so now. In my letter I informed them that my mother passed away in 1994 and that even in life she never lived at my address. I suggested that they stop wasting their resources and let my poor old mom rest in peace. I can only hope that it gave some one a bad day or at least a moments embarrassment.