Valldata services ltd

PlutoinCapricorn

This brings back many memories: a charity I worked for used them until they found a better deal elsewhere. They sent lovely calendars to their clients.

Using fulfillment agencies is standard practice: printing, stuffing, opening the responses to mass mailings are outsourced by larger charities.

You can get on the mailing/telephone preference services to avoid cold calls from charities that you have not given to; you can return mailings from charities that you have given to in their original envelope and write "do not send again; do not give my details to other charities; please remove my details from your database" on the outside. Reputable charities do take your wishes into account.

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SpammyTheSpammer wrote: »

fulfilment house !
(!!!!!!?)

And, of course, it means that you can send further charity requests to a donor. Once you have found a slightly gaga old lady who is a sucker for the "poor little puppies" or "sick kittens" approach, then you can just mailbomb them with request after request for the charities that Valldata host, "due to economies of scale"

Yeuch! Bargepole please, extra long.....

How do Valldata know that it's a "slightly gaga old lady"?
Do you have any evidence that Valldata mailbomb anyone?
In fact, do you have any evidence they share databases between the different organisations that contract them?
Finally, do you have the same downer on Royal Mail, who are also subcontracted by the charity to perform certain tasks?

Or are you just whinging?

SpammyTheSpammer

How do Valldata know that it's a "slightly gaga old lady"?

Very true, to them she is just someone who was cold-mailed as my Aunt cannot have contacted them. They must have got her details from other "Charities" - see link https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4625059

Do you have any evidence that Valldata mailbomb anyone?
In fact, do you have any evidence they share databases between the different organisations that contract them?

We will soon find out - we are collecting all her post now.



Finally, do you have the same downer on Royal Mail, who are also subcontracted by the charity to perform certain tasks?

That's just silly! I may be paranoid but not that much....

Or are you just whinging?

Yup! This is the VENT thread - please try to keep up, but thanks for helping

paddyrg

SpammyTheSpammer wrote: »

fulfilment house !
(!!!!!!?)

It comes from 'order fulfilment' - Amazon for instance sell their own stuff and also hold stock for other companies and fulfil the orders (ie do the back office, packaging, postage, etc).

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SpammyTheSpammer wrote: »

Yup! This is the VENT thread - please try to keep up, but thanks for helping

A decent vent would actually be truthful, not a whinge about something you think might be the case.

SpammyTheSpammer

Although we have replied to every single letter to her from VALLDATA requesting that communications cease, she is still getting "charity" requests from that "fullfillment house"

why do I feel sick after writing those words?

JenC

You need to be writing to the charity, not the fulfillment house. And yes, that is what they are called in the industry. Valldata are a perfectly legitimate company, your issue should be with the charity, not the company employed by them