I am still receiving credit card checks–you know, the things where you can get a cash advance for your card–for my late husband’s accounts. Two different banks. Accounts that I notified the CC companies about within days of his death over two years ago and again last year.
It’s most frustrating since I’m assuming that if someone took said checks and cashed one, I’d be the one the companies would try to pursue for the money. I’ve had two new addresses since then, too, and they always put the new addresses on. But he hasn’t just moved, Citi! He’s not just not into you, BofA! It’s worse than that–he’s dead, Jim!
Now I’m curious just how long they will continue to send these things.
My mom was just telling me that she got a credit card in the mail today with my dad’s name on it, and he’s been gone over two years. Dad also got called for jury duty about six months after he died. :rolleyes: Mom started sending Dad’s mail back marked “return to sender” with his new address as the cemetary on the envelope. I don’t know if I’d do that with credit card checks though.
After my mother died in Illinois I had her PO box forwarded to me in California so I could deal with any mail that needed attention. A pizza company in LA sent a coupon welcoming my father, who had been dead for 11 years, to California.
I got mail for my dad fairly regularly for several years after his death. It dropped off after six or seven years. I always wondered what would happen if I entered him into the PCH contests we kept getting the mailings for (do they still do that?) and Ed McMahon showed up on our doorstep – “No, he’s been dead since 1993, but I’m his daughter, isn’t that close enough?”
The mail got to be pretty funny after a while but for the first couple years it was a bit difficult.
Well, if it’s reasonable to assume your dead relative is going to be revived by the staggering 0% interest rate for the first year on their Amex, it’s reasonable to believe Ed McMahon will be bringing you a giant check 2 years after his death.
Back in the '60s the local draft board kept trying to draft my father and threaten him with arrest for missing his physicals. He was serving on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific at the time. His then wife even got a visit from the local FBI office.
After my grandmother died my mother (who lived in a different house with a different phone number and used a different lastname) got both mail & telemarketing calls for her. Including some outfit selling children’s books where the agent kept insisting she “just spoke with her last week” (granny had been dead a year). That was an interesting conversation to watch. My mother managed to break the phone off the wall hanging up. Now they live in the same house my other grandparents live & still get junk mail for them (grandpa’s still alive & in good health, but grandma’s been dead 6 years).
I’ve lived in this house for 12 years and just recently started getting junk mail for the previous owners again. I know they’ve moved at least once since they left here. They’re not dead, AFAIK, but they definitely don’t live here anymore.
I took a call at work from someone wanting to talk to a coworker who had been dead about six months. It told them that if they could wait a few years, I’d give her a message.
My grandfather died in the mid 80s, and my grandmother decided to go live with my folks. My family started renting the house in 1988, and I kept returning mail addressed to Grandpa, with “Deceased” written on it. I moved out of that house last November…and I was STILL getting the occasional catalog and other junk mail for Grandpa.
So, I’d say that the mailing lists aren’t updated more than once every couple of decades.
When I was newly grieving, it didn’t really bother me because it didn’t feel so ridiculous. But we’ve past ridiculous and are in the midst of ludicrous, now.
I can understand someone still being on mailing lists but this would concern me. So the insurance company can just put whoever they want on your insrance as a secondary driver? I would be having a heart to heart with my agent about what needed to be done to prevent me from switching insurance providers.
It gets worse, when I tried to cancel my, just deceased, MIL’s phone service, I had to work my way through several layers of idiots who insisted, ‘Only the person on the account, can cancel the service!’
I was so frustrated they had me in tears. Around about the fifth person, I just blurted out, ‘Look it’s a good phone plan, but she can’t call you from the damn grave!’ Her name is still on the cable bill, because I just gave up, after this call, and never bothered to go back and fix it. I figure as long as we pay the bill, it’s okay.
