How To Stop Junk Mail?

[Malaika1992]

I recently visited my grandmother’s home and while helping out I found a large number of letters from charities asking her to partake in raffles to win prizes and money. I spoke to her about them and she now thinks she has to pay every last one of them I reassured that you don’t have to pay them anything at all. I was also quite angry as I found out she had given them money and wanted it to stop. She has no idea how the charities got her address I've taken the all letters
but I would like to know what I should do next in regards to stopping the letters.

[Buenchico]

http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/

[mccfluff]

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/no-more-junk

if you scroll down you get the address to register with, you can also print a poster to put up

[Buenchico]

Also, check with the local council that your mother marked the box on the electoral registration form to have her name excluded from the edited roll. If she didn't anyone (with a very big budget) can buy a copy and use it for mailing purposes (either directly or by selling the names & addresses onto other organisations seeking them).

[SlackAlice]

Unfortunately, if you agree to pay a specified amount monthly then I find they are constantly requesting that you increase your donation. All my charitable monthly donations were cancelled because of the amount of junk I got and I told them why in writing and specified they remove my name/address from their mailing list. I still donate but in a fashion that suits me not them.

I find it quite satisfying to post there junk back to them in there own envelopes.

I had already done what Buenchico suggests in both both of his posts some time ago.

[VHG]

At one time my elderly mother gave money to a couple of animal charities and over the next few months she started to get more and more begging letters from all sorts of other animal charities.

She also began to get other "scam" type letters "you have won £25,000" and so on.

Sadly once you reply to one of these charity letters you go on the "gullible" list and your name is passed from one charity to another.

I began to keep track of all the different charities that contacted my mother and when she died it took me weeks to contact all the different charities stop them sending her mail.

To be honest I think some of these charities are on the verge of being scams, for example someone keeps a few donkeys in their field and all of a sudden they are the "Rutland Donkey Sanctuary" or whatever and start sending out begging letters.

Soon the money is rolling in, helping them to pay to live on their farm and look after a few donkeys.

I would love to know how much checking is done on some of these dubious charities.

[slinky.kate]

I keep getting raffle tickets sent to me,i have bought a few in the past,but stopped it.whats to stop me selling the raffle tickets and keeping the money,at least I am honest and send the whole book back.

[mandimoo]

Register her with Mail Preference Service. It really does work. I've been registered for years and usually the only junk I get is bloomin Virgin. On the rare occasion I do receive something I shove it all back in their prepaid envelope (so it cost them money) & post it back to them, blank of course.

[ubasses]

While the MPS will stop all new mail as she has donated to some of these charities they will continue as they will consider her as having 'authorised mail' from them. Just write on the envelope Return to Sender, Please Remove from Mailing List, and put them back in the post box.

This is how we managed to stop them for Mother in Law