RIGHT-WING SNAIL-MAIL
to 'Individual One'
circa 2017
Documentation of super-conservative,
right-wing, nut-job snail-mail.
RIGHT-WING SNAIL-MAILto 'Individual One'circa 2017
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INTRODUCTION : After several years of giving, almost daily, to various charity organizations, an individual (who shall be called 'Individual One') was put on many mailing lists --- and eventually that person got requests for money from *WAY* more organizations than the many ones to which that person gave money. The DELUGE of mail that 'Individual One' was subjected to in 2017 is documented on a Snail-Mail Money-Requests web page --- and on a 'Surely-Scam' Snail-Mail web page. What is particularly annoying --- about ALL of these organizations sending money-requests --- is that some organizations keep sending requests approximately monthly --- and some even more often. And, the case of 'Individual One' is particularly annoying because 'Individual One' died in January 2017 --- and the requests for money continue --- multiple, month-after-month requests from many of the organizations. Many 'non-profit' organizations send requests to the same person month-after-month-after-month. They do NOT restrict themselves to one or two requests annually --- AND THEY SHOULD. --- Along with the huge volume of 'charity' and 'scam' mail that 'Individual One' was receiving, about 20 'right-wing' --- or 'ultra-conservative' --- organizations started sending him snail-mail requests for money. This page is meant to record at least SOME of the 'right-wing' snail-mail sent to 'Individual One'. It is my hope that data like this may someday be used to draw attention to the extremely 'divisive' and 'exclusionary' and 'self-righteous' organizations that are likely to draw the United States in the direction of an unconsitutional society that
DATA COLLECTED BELOW : The data that is collected below includes date(s)-of-receipt --- along with some other features of the mailed money-request --- along with the organization name. The 'return address' on the enclosed 'return envelope' is recorded for each organization. This is usually a Post Office Box --- and it may, in some cases, be the PO Box of a 'bulk mailing' contractor. Some additional information is collected --- such as web address, phone numbers, and alternative mailing addresses such as street addresses, and names of 'officers' in the organization --- if these data-nuggets are available in the various paperwork items included with the money request. These additional data-nuggets are sometimes not available in certain types of particularly 'exclusionary' 'right-wing' mail. ORGANIZATION OF THIS PAGE : This page is organized like the Snail-Mail Money-Requests web page of 'Individual One'. The data-sections are in alphabetical order by name of the organization --- with sections denoted by letters of the alphabet. For example, 'Conservative Caucus' organization money-requests go in a 'C' section --- and 'Pray in Jesus Name Ministries' organization money-requests go in a 'P' section. --- The following 'Table of Contents' (the alphabet) can be used to quickly to go to 'alphabet-sections' on this page. Within each 'alphabet-section', there are sections corresponding to 'organization name' --- and in those 'organization' sections are lists of dates, when requests for money were received. In some cases, the mail was delivered when the recipient was out of town. In those cases, an approximate receipt-date is given --- indicated by a 'twiddle' (tilde) character. Example: 2017mar10~, instead of 2017mar10 --- for mail received sometime between 2017mar05 and 2017mar16, say. In each 'organization name' section, there may be a 'WEB SEARCH' link that provides a web search on the name of the organization --- and a web search on the name of an officer or some other 'feature' of the organization. These web searches are meant to help check whether there is evidence on the web that the organization may be a 'scam' --- or at least a known 'client abuser'. In fact, after clicking on a 'WEB SEARCH' link, the search can be 'enhanced' by adding keywords such as 'scam' or 'complaint' or 'warn'. RETURN ENVELOPE -- METERED OR STAMP-REQUIRED : Each 'organization-section' is tagged 'meter' (or 'metered') or 'stamp' (or 'stamp-reqd') to indicate whether 'they' include a return envelope that is metered --- or an envelope that requires a stamp be added. The word 'they' represents either the 'nominal' organization OR the bulk-mail-contractor that is handling the packaging of the money-requests for the organization. If the return-envelope is metered, that facilitates a reply to ask to be taken off of their mailing list(s). They --- the organization or their bulk mailing contractor --- may not do so, but at least the request is free if a metered-mail envelope can be used. In those cases where a 'metered' return envelope IS provided, I keep track of number of times (dates) that requests were sent --- via metered mail --- to be taken off of an organization's mailing list --- because the named recipient is deceased. I do this with a 'SENT DECEASED NOTE(S):' paragraph in each 'metered'-organization section of this page. Some sample text for 'deceased notes' are provided on the Snail-Mail Money-Requests web page of 'Individual One'. After some weeks of sending various 'deceased' notices in 'metered' return envelopes, it became clear that several REMOVE-and-STOP topics need to be addressed. In a typical 'deceased note' to a money requester, one should say: 1) REMOVE the name-address from your mailing lists. This also implies: 2) STOP sending money requests to this individual. 3) STOP 'renting'/exchanging/sharing the name-address to/with other money-requesting organizations.
NO REASONABLE, LOW-COST 'OPT-OUT' Like essentially all 'charity' organizations, essentially none of the 'right wing' organizations listed below offer a reasonable Opt-Out option --- such as an 800 number to call or, better yet, a metered-mail reply envelope for free mailing (with no possibility of recording caller's phone number). Currently (2017), there is never a check box on money donation forms to totally opt-out of future mailings. At least one 'charity' organization offers a check box to 'reduce' the frequency of its mailings --- to what? 4 per year? 8 per year? Two per year should be the max. In either method of opting-out --- that is, snail-mailing to opt-out or phone-calling to opt-out --- there is no guarantee that they will actually opt you out --- or be able to opt you out. You may be on so many mailing lists, that are circulating around, that your name will keep popping up at these organizations --- or at the contractors that they use to do the mailings. THE 'ANONYMOUS ENVELOPE' TRICK Some 'right wing' organizations --- especially the 'exclusionary' ones --- do not put the name of the organization on the outside of the envelope that is received. (This is probably to make it less likely that the envelope will be thrown away without opening it.) I may indicate those 'nameless-sent-envelope' organization-requests with an 'anonymous' tag. Upper-case 'ANONYMOUS' indicates that NEITHER the name nor the address of the organization was on the outside of the received envelope. Lower-case 'anonymous' indicates the address of the organization was on the outside of the envelop (usually a PO-box rather than a street address) WITHOUT the name of the organization. OTHER TRICKS The following 'tricks' are often used by 'charity' organizations --- and some are used by 'right wing' organizations. THE 'MEMBERSHIP FEE' TRICK Some organizations indulge in what I call a 'mild form of scamming'. They consider your donation a 'membership fee' and then bombard you with reminders that your membership fee is due --- often much more frequently than annually. I may indicate those organization-money-requests with a 'membership' tag. THE 'SURVEY FORM' TRICK Some organizations seem to try to draw attention away from their main aim (to get your money) by including a survey form for you to fill out --- as if you want to spend your valuable time filling out a form that will typically lead to nothing being accomplished. I may indicate those organizations or requests with a 'survey' tag. THE 'PETITION' TRICK Some organizations include petitions (typically to be sent to your Congress persons) rather than a survey. Meanwhile, they mainly want your money. They would never mail you simply a petition with no request for money. At least, I have never seen that happen. I may indicate those organization-money-requests with a 'petition' tag.
NOTE: THE 'GUILT' TRICK Some organizations may put an unsolicited 'gift' in the envelope, such as
I may indicate those organizations or requests with a tag like 'coin' or 'labels' or 'notepad' or 'cards' or 'calendar'.
CONDENSED LIST OF SOME 'RIGHT WING' ORGANIZATIONS Some of the organizations sending 'right wing' requests for money to this 'Individual One' are listed below --- with '[S]' indicating they used 'stamp-required' return envelopes and '[M]' indicating they used 'metered' (or postage-supplied) return envelopes --- and '[S,M]' or '[M,S]' indicating they used some of each. '(ANON)' or '(anon)' indicates organizations that tend to put no org-name-address or no org-name on the outer envelope.
ON POSTAGE COST : I think it is quite obnoxious that many of these 'right wing' organizations send 'stamp required' return envelopes --- some of them even pre-marked 'First Class'. This means that they are requiring us to put a 48-cents (or more) stamp on their envelope, when they could use their bulk mail privileges to provide a return envelope that would cost them about 8 to 15 cents in postage --- probably only if the return envelope is used. They could provide the postage for about 75 percent less than what we have to pay. Perhaps by providing 'metered' return envelopes, some 'right wing' organizations would have to reveal more about themselves to the U.S. Postal Service than they care to divulge. SAMPLE SEARCHES ON THIS PAGE : The data on this page provides information in one order (by organization-name, when available) --- but it may be helpful to view the information in another order. Note that there are many ways you can use the 'word-search' option of your web browser to search this page for various 'categories' of information. Examples:
ENOUGH OF THIS INTRO. A 'Table of Contents' follows --- to provide easy access to groups of mail data. Note that the sum total of the following mailings constitutes 'harassment' --- especially when combined with the mailings from more than 200 'money-requesting organizations' on the Snail-Mail Money-Requests web page of 'Individual One'. There were about 20 'right wing organizations' requesting money from 'Individual One' --- seen below. So almost 10 percent of the organizations sending money-requests to 'Individual One' are 'right wing' organizations. Most of these 'right wing' organizations are so 'exclusionary' --- and try to spread their 'exclusionary' stance --- that they should not be allowed to be/reside within a truly democratic society. |
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