Re: When do charitys give up?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rich Greenberg) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> How long with no response does it take for charitys to give up on
> someone?
> 
> When my mother was alive,  she would make small ($5-10) donations to a
> lot of charities.  She passed away in June 2002 and since then, all her
> mail has been forwarded to my house.  I am still getting 20-30 letters a
> week addressed to her name at my address.  I have been saving the
> calendars, pens, memo pads, coins and occasional checks and dumping the
> rest in my paper recycling bin.
> 
> When will it end?  I refuse to spend the postage to notify them.  I have
> nothing against the charitys themselves,  they are just not the ones I
> prefer to donate to.

we moved in almost 3 yrs ago and are still receiving donation requests
and catalogs for the mother of the wife of the previous owner.   she
had been dead for about 6 months or so when we bought the house.