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  • Marketing Group Takes the Dead Off Lists

    By ERIN McCLAM
    Associated Press Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) -- The nation's largest direct marketing group set up a registry Thursday to remove dead people from its telemarketing, e-mail and direct mail lists - for $1.

    The Direct Marketing Association, which has more than 5,200 members in the United States and 44 other countries, said its Deceased Do-Not-Contact list was designed to help families dealing with the loss of a loved one.

    "The DMA recognizes how emotionally and logistically difficult the process of handling someone's final affairs can be," Pat Kachura, the group's senior vice president for ethics and consumer affairs, said in a statement.

    The organization said the $1 fee was for credit card verification, and was designed to prevent fraud.

    http://www.davesdaily.com/out.php?id...07-21-15-42-58


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    Re: Marketing Group Takes the Dead Off Lists

    well isn't that very big of them.


    so i now know the only way to get off those lists LOL
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      The organization said the $1 fee was for credit card verification, and was designed to prevent fraud.
      Ummmmm....right. Goodness...they're so slimey I bet they have to sit on velco chairs.
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        My father's been dead for 8 year and he's still getting junk mail.
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          That's so sad Not2, and they want you to pay them to stop. *shame *on them! .

          You know I know someone who saved all their junk mail then used the prepaid envelopes to mail it back to the companies, only thing is, you have to be sure not to mail them anything that would identify you , cut your name off of things and such. You just stuff it all in a box and tape the envelope to the outside, they have to pay for it and it serves them right!


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            I think I'm going to start doing that MOG...I get credit card offers every stinking day and it's extremely irritating. I didn't ask for the offers and they're just wasting paper as it is.
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              Re: Marketing Group Takes the Dead Off Lists

              Originally posted by Bugaboo
              I think I'm going to start doing that MOG...I get credit card offers every stinking day and it's extremely irritating. I didn't ask for the offers and they're just wasting paper as it is.
              Oh the credit cards drive me mad!i might start doing that too. i bet i get 2 or 3 a day.
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                Re: Marketing Group Takes the Dead Off Lists

                Me too! I get so many preapproved credit cards--now they've started disguising the envelopes so that they look like bills, makes me crazy!


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