junk mail from animal and environmental groups

[Guest guest]

HI everyone,

 

I am overwhelmed with junk mail from animal and environmental groups

seeking donations. I have a few groups I support and of, course, can't

support them all! I'm in the process of writing everyone now and

asking to be taken off their list.

Is PETA selling donor name/addresses? (One great place to support is

Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary in Florida. 100% of the money goes to

the monkeys and it's a pure veg community)

 

Thanks,

Amy

(drowning in junk mail)

[Guest guest]

"I'm in the process of writing everyone now and asking to be taken off their list. Is PETA selling donor name/addresses? "

 

You have my sympathies! Unfortunately it seems like too many nonprofit groups (even the environmental ones) sell/exchange their mailing lists. I have not had problems with PETA selling my name/address before, but I have had this issue with other animal groups.

 

This comes up periodically, so for those interested, I've shared some of my ideas/insights here:

 

http://www.generationv.org/index.php?blog=6 & title=junk_mail

 

As a FYI, Bay Area Vegetarians does not share its mailing address of donors, and as far as the email addresses of rs to our various lists, we do not share those, either. In fact, our website event calendar is specifically written to prevent spammers from grabbing organizers email addresses.

 

Cheers,

Tammy

 

 

Now podcasting and blogging at -

http://www.GenerationV.org

 

 

[Guest guest]

It's sometimes very difficult to get off a list because often that list was

bought/traded/rented so asking the buyer/trader/renter won't get you off the

original list that's being sold/traded/rented.

I handle the mailing list for Paw PAC and the request not to have one's name

sold/traded/rented to others is very common. We don't do it and say so in

our annual mailings. People appreciate it.

When you give money, ask specifically that they not share your name. Some

orgs accommodate that request because of this very problem that turns off

donors.

By the way, if the group can afford to send out the mass mailings (and pay a

good percentage to the mailing house), it often means that the org doesn't

need your money, and certainly not as much as local groups run primarily by

volunteers. People call me asking which of the many mailings they received

they should respond to. I tell them the ones who need you the most don't

necessarily have the money to send mass mailings.

And if a mass mailing tells you of a terrible animal abuse with the only

solution being to send them money, I am turned off. All these mailings are

the same - 2 double sided pages, your name inserted in the text, some blue

ink to make you think somebody signed it individually......

Our movement is a victim of its own success.

Virginia Handley

Animal Switchboard

415/474-4021

 

 

On Behalf Of

veggiegrrrl

Saturday, January 21, 2006 12:55 PM

 

junk mail from animal and environmental groups

 

HI everyone,

 

I am overwhelmed with junk mail from animal and environmental groups

seeking donations. I have a few groups I support and of, course, can't

support them all! I'm in the process of writing everyone now and

asking to be taken off their list.

Is PETA selling donor name/addresses? (One great place to support is

Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary in Florida. 100% of the money goes to

the monkeys and it's a pure veg community)

 

Thanks,

Amy

(drowning in junk mail)

 

 

 

 

 

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