Oxfam won't leave me alone

uktim29

hollydays wrote: »

erm......!!!!!!..

It was a reply to your deleted post!

If your going to put your money where your mouth is, tell me why the op's reactions are that if a rational person?

You don't do that Holladays. I put my suspected reason behind my thinking and then you just "troll" as you put it because you disagree. Why don't you for a change put some sort of decent argument back, rather than just "trolling" (as you'd put it) just because you don't like someones point of view. Your repetitive "troll" argument is quiet hypocritical with the responses you write containing no actual point of view or questioning.

Come on Holladays, how many more "troll" posts with no actual meaning am I going to have to see you write?

If you don't my opinion that fine but at least try and write something sensible back.

hollydays

I use the Whittington-Smythe measure of normality..and you?

mrcow

I have a monthly donation by DD set up for Oxfam. Because of this they used to send me marketing stuff.

I just called them and asked them to stop.

Haven't had anything since.

OP.......rather than getting all irate and sending unhappy letters.....why not just call them and ask them to take you off their marketing list? They obviously didn't complete the process correctly last time, but it's hardly worth getting your blood pressure up about

You're obviously expending a lot of energy over it......including now this thread.......is it really worth it?

C_Ronaldo

OP why dont you just email oxfam asking to be removed from theyre database or failing that when you get mail from oxfam you open it up and reseal and write on the front "return to sender, addressee not at address anymore" or something to that affect

olly300

I thought some people would think this was odd but the reason I'm annoyed is Oxfam has been mailing me continuously since I've asked them not to in July. If it was going to my current address I would simply put it in the recycling pile.

I've moved house and the junk is going to my previous address. My prevous address has been let to tenants who already have undertaken some unscrupulous activities.

My post is being redirected to me via Royal Mail Redirection Service and when it runs out I don't want my name to be used fraudenlently as it's not a common name so I will be found.

Therefore I've written to every company who was sending me marketing material and either told them not to mail me or not to use my previous address. All of them except Oxfam have complied with my request.

So yes it's worth it to prevent my name which is not common from being used fraudently.

hollydays

olly300 wrote: »

I thought some people would think this was odd but the reason I'm annoyed is Oxfam has been mailing me continuously since I've asked them not to in July. If it was going to my current address I would simply put it in the recycling pile.

I've moved house and the junk is going to my previous address. My prevous address has been let to tenants who already have undertaken some unscrupulous activities.

My post is being redirected to me via Royal Mail Redirection Service and when it runs out I don't want my name to be used fraudenlently as it's not a common name so I will be found.

Therefore I've written to every company who was sending me marketing material and either told them not to mail me or not to use my previous address. All of them except Oxfam have complied with my request.

So yes it's worth it to prevent my name which is not common from being used fraudently.

Is Oxfam the only Charity you have written to?

Even when i had my mail redirected some of my post still slipped through.Luckily the occupier sent it on to me.I dont know what they are sending you,but i would be more concerned at post where companies are asking you to open an account and pay them for goods,is this the case?Worth doing a free credit check with Experian and registering with them if you think it could be that serious.

olly300

I've been contacted by email (which was how I sent my original request to avoid giving them my new address) by the person who said they would stop mailing stuff out to me at my previous address in July.

Anyway Oxfam put my previous address back on their mailing list. So now I actually gone and posted the letter I wrote yesterday to their Data Controller so I know it will stop.

There was another charity who were sending me mailings and they stopped when I wrote to them. However they are a smaller charity and I know someone who works for them.

Yes I will be doing my credit checks.

uktim29

olly300 wrote: »

So yes it's worth it to prevent my name which is not common from being used fraudently.

But your tennants will know your name anyway, and obviously the address. It makes no difference.

lisyloo

It goes straight in the bin along with all the other junk mail.

Personally I like to stop mine at source because I think we should all do our bit to help the environement and stop global warming.

Obviously my own contribution is quite small but if lots of people did it, it would make a real different.

Recycling is not the same as stopping something at source in my view.
I think the jury is out on the value of recycling as it depends on a number of factors (like how much petrol you burn driving to the recycling center).

I stop all junk mail via the MPS, post office and contacting organisations directly.
I do get out but I don't particularly like wasting the planets resources and in the long term it's less effort to write one email than continual put stuff in the bin.