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Sanity Claws

(21,849 posts)
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 08:07 AM Oct 2018

Your opinion please

I got a mailing from Pence. Yuck. Do I open it or mark it Return to Sender?

Second question:
I have been trying to figure out how Pence goqt my name and address. I have never donated to a Republican or even an Independent. My best guess is that Catholic Charities, to which I donated last year, sold its mailing list to Pence and other Republicans. Should I ask CC if they sold their mailing list and tell that I am very unhappy about it?

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Raven123

(4,844 posts)
1. I dont know about where you live, but in some states that info is publicly available
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 08:12 AM
Oct 2018

If you vote, they have your info. When I get a mailing, I see if a return envelope is included. If it is and no postage is required, I return it empty

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
3. don't return it empty
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 08:16 AM
Oct 2018

Those envelopes are conveniently provided as a way for you to have your other junk mail picked up.

I will take the junk mail pile, find those envelopes, put as much of the junk mail into those envelopes, and then put them back in the mailbox. The USPS comes by and takes it all back.

It's like "concierge trash service".

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
2. Are you registered to vote?
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 08:14 AM
Oct 2018

Because that is usually how political direct mailers get addresses.

And, if you aren't registered to vote, then wtf are you doing here?

Sanity Claws

(21,849 posts)
9. Available yes
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 09:35 AM
Oct 2018

If that is why Pence sent me mail, they must have money to burn because the information shows that I am not receptive to his message.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
12. It's more expensive to hire someone to do the analysis...
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 10:39 AM
Oct 2018

...than it is to send bulk rate postage to a list of addresses.

Athenapallas

(52 posts)
4. I would. They may to the line "of course not" but just let it be known
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 08:18 AM
Oct 2018

if you find out they did you will stop your support.

whathehell

(29,067 posts)
7. I haven't given to Catholic Charities & I'm getting RW emails
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 09:11 AM
Oct 2018

for the first time, so I doubt that's the connection.

I respond by telling the morons they should "know their market" since I'm a lifelong Democrat.

gibraltar72

(7,504 posts)
11. If they include a postage paif envelope for your contribution
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 09:58 AM
Oct 2018

fill it up with as weighty stuff as you can and return it to them. It will come back postage due. Perhaps they'll get the point.

GemDigger

(4,305 posts)
13. For the first time ever I have been receiving stuff from the RNC.
Wed Oct 10, 2018, 10:47 AM
Oct 2018

Nothing from the Dems (which I am one) but 4 from the RNC begging for money.

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