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Thread #53192   Message #824753
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
12-Nov-02 - 09:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Offensive grocery ID cards - privacy
Subject: RE: BS: Offensive grocery ID cards - privacy
Page, my father died five years ago yesterday and I am still getting stuff in his name. Not so much as before--you might try moving a couple of times. That's what I did. You lose a lot of stuff that way! :-/

If you visit that first web site I posted, I think poking around will give you a series of nation-wide places that send stuff. There are lots of kinds of lists, like the ad circulars that come once a week, and there are the folks who hang stuff on doors, and then there are the credit bureau lists, etc. I do believe I wrote to each of the big three credit reporting agencies to report his death (and sent a photocopy of the death certificate) and that slowed it a lot. My sympathies on the continual reminders, though. I remember how jarring it was, especially on special days or anniversaries of things. The catalogs I liked that came in his name I finally just changed over to my own name. And that might be another answer--don't try to cancel it now, just change it. Then send the Direct Marketing stuff in for your own name.

Maggie