Is there any way to make them stop- other than trying to contact every single .org and beg them?

If they include a SASE envelope in their mailings, you can write on the donation slip "please remove me from your mailing list" and send it back to them.
I've done that in the past and it usually worked on a one on one basis. A bit less exhausting then trying to call them all.

Just shred them and put them in the circular file.

Toedtoes said: If they include a SASE envelope in their mailings, you can write on the donation slip "please remove me from your mailing list" and send it back to them.
I've done that in the past and it usually worked on a one on one basis. A bit less exhausting then trying to call them all.

Great suggestion. I only looked at and saw needs my stamp..forget that

Yeah, I never used one of my stamps, but if they were willing to pay for it I happily sent it back at their cost.

Getting the mail is better the the constant phone calls. Do not call list is pretty worthless.

My personal peeve is all the stupid flyers left at my door. I really resent having to add to the overfilled garbage dumps with unrecyclable junk that I did not request or want.

I have 17 envelopes ready for post office.

Good luck! I hope it works for you!

Never get flyers on house here, probably to much walking. Once in a rare while oh my car at work.

Those car ones drive me batty too. I end up with a stack of them on the floor of my car.

NJBob said: Getting the mail is better the the constant phone calls. Do not call list is pretty worthless.

Yeah, I think the calls are worse by a long shot! I constantly get calls, most related to insurance or medical stuff. Do not call does nothing and the block feature on my phone does nothing. I block numbers and that same number calls again.

sallyg said: Is there any way to make them stop- other than trying to contact every single .org and beg them?

Years ago I kept getting requests for donations to a (so-called) charity. I finally got ticked off one day and decided to do something about it. I found a mostly intact, but battered red BRICK. I cut the label *and* pre-paid postage doodad off the bloodsucker's return envelope and taped it to the brick...and attached my name and city to the back of the brick. I took it to the post office and the postmaster looked a little confused. I explained the situation to him and he grinned. He said that he saw no reason the brick wouldn't be delivered *and* that the receiver would be charged the postage. Now, I don't know if they had to pay for that brick to travel business-class or not, but it didn't come back to me...and I never got another solicitation from the "charity". Of course, I was younger then and had a little more spit and vinegar in me.

LindaTX8 said: Yeah, I think the calls are worse by a long shot! I constantly get calls, most related to insurance or medical stuff. Do not call does nothing and the block feature on my phone does nothing. I block numbers and that same number calls again.

We get an odd call several times a week that is simply a moment of silence and then a "blip" sound. The only thing I can figure is that it is a robocall canvassing phone numbers to see where people actually will answer the phone...they spoof the caller ID by inserting a city/state...usually within 100 miles of us.

When a real person calls you have to be quick on your feet. The first, knee-jerk move if you're caught unprepared to deal with a solicitor is to pretend you can't hear them...

You (with a semi-concerned voice): "Hello? Hello?....Anybody there?...Hello?
Solicitor: "Hello! Can you hear me?"
You (highly concerned): "Hello? Is this Isabelle??"
Solicitor: "No it's not Isabelle???"
You (said loudly to an imaginary friend standing nearby): "Nobody's here."
You: start pressing buttons like your dialing.
Solicitor: "<click>"

Or, you can go the senile route...
You: "Hello"
Solicitor: "Hello...Mr. Smith?"
You: "Is this Jerry? My commode is backed up again"
Solicitor: "This isn't Jerry, Mr. Smith. I need just a couple minutes of your time".
You: "Jerry, Suze said you were gonna send a plumber over. I think we need a real plumber the s__t's everywhere!"
Solicitor: <click>

I recall, back when we had our business running my brother kept a stock broker from NYC on the line for probably 30 minutes...it had to be a record. He played the dumb country boy that didn't know what Wall Street was. About halfway through the conversation my brother reared back in his chair and says, "Now you be serious with me!"....I about fell out of my chair!!! My brother finally got the broker to hang up on him when the stock broker mentioned the stock market in New York City and my brother responded that that was too far to haul cows. Stockbroker: <click>

Hey...if you've got the time it's cheap entertainment.

I would answer county morgue, how can I help you. Now I just let them go to voicemail, my answering machine also indicates whether they are spam

I got an almost-new car from a dealership in Sept. & immediately started getting much more junk mail & phone calls. It was so obvious they sold my info to - somebody/something. But how stupid are they? IF I had any $ for that crud, it's all going to the new car now. Duh!!

Usually if you just take a few seconds pause before saying hello when you pick up, the robo calls will hang up and remove you from their list. That pause confuses them.

Many many years ago, I had a sales call from cable company wanting to upsell my service. I told her I wasn't interested. She said "but I can save you money". I told her I didn't want to save money. She was flaggergasted.

I had her on the phone for over an hour while she tried to explain to me that saving money is a good thing...

Sometimes you can really enjoy a wrong number:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Or spam emails:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

If you can pull off a heavy Boston accent or any accent that's thick then I've got a good one you can do. Answer the phone in a noisy place with lots of background noise of chatter and whatnot. Have a big piece of bubblegum in your mouth then answer with Marijuana Pizza Shop!! Special of the day is large pizza with 10 different flavors of marijuana on it for a hundred bucks. How many do you want? Then just keep up the act until they hang up. I can't get an accent thick enough to do it or I'd do it.

I've sent about 20 envelopes now, and written at least 10 info at dot orgs asking them to stop the mailings. Won't know how successful this is for a while.

Pot pizza? Not sure that's what is usually done with weed.

Good luck, Sally!

I forgot to say before, some of them send nice return address labels. I keep those but don't appreciate the guilty feeling that has then been forced upon me for not paying for them by donating. I've thought about sending $5 for their expense with a plea to please stop sending stuff to me. I don't appreciate being made to feel guilty, or like a freeloader, or that I don't care about their cause.

And it makes me sad that they're using the $ that people sent to them to send free stuff to me & ask for more $. So close to being a pyramid scheme.

If each of us sent "just 63 cents a day" to every organization asking for it, it would probably be more than we have. And they would still never stop asking for more.