To move things along dad died of an unknown blood cancer and as a Republican donor, the GOP and other entities will not stop harassing him from beyond the grave.
I have written things like “Stop asking dead men for money” and sent it back in the pre-paid envelope, but I’m not getting my message heard.
I’m looking for some personal satisfaction at this point.
Should I send back this RNC packet with the finest glitter I can find? Or sand?
Or am I missing some bigger, better, shittier thing I could be doing?
Time is not a premium–I caregive for mom half the time and sit at a desk for dumb-money the rest of the time. I can do this shit ON THE CLOCK, so be as creative as you want.
The RNC,
Trump,
Salvation Army,
Trump,
Trump’s Family,
Ron DeSantis,
Other outofstate GOP operatives
All of them beg or demand money, with these thick pre-paid.
Dirt?
A whole brick? Will that come postage due?
I need a WIN. I need to fuck with someone hard, legally, and just enjoy myself. I’m in the toilet, I’m circling the drain, I need a win of any kind, even if it’s just glitter in an envelope. But I’d really like to fuck with them further.
I found out how to stop the cold-calls about inheriting the house: “so you found out my DAD DIED and thought you could weasel into making some money off it?? Am I understanding your call correctly?” Boy, they don’t call back.
That said, how is this harassment? Your dad presumably wanted the mail. There is no way that some huge computer generated mail thing could “know” that your dad passed.
The tape the letter to a brick thing won’t work and you’ll only make a few postal employees’ day worse. The glitter thing will only make the day of some hourly worker worse. Why screw with those innocent people?
Throw the mailings in the trash with the rest of the junk mail. I still get junk mail for my exwife who moved out in 2005 and occasionally for the guy from whom I purchased the house in 1993. It’ll mostly die off on its own.
I emailed these types of places and simply said to stop sending anything to the name of my dead relative and that person’s address. That was pretty effective but with some of them it took a few tries. We moved the person’s address to a post office box. That knocked out a few more that didn’t get forwarded. The next move will be to close the PO box.
I’m sorry about your father. Mine died in 1997 and I still get mail for him once or twice a year.
I have to agree with hajario. There’s no a lot you can do. Telling them to stop won’t work, because they simply aren’t programmed to stop. The post office won’t return to sender, nor will they accept envelopes taped to bricks. It turns out it’s more cost effective to keep sending mail than to pay humans to clean up the mailing list.
Perhaps you can get some satisfaction by getting a shredder and as you feed each piece of junk through it, say “you’re wasting your money.”
I don’t have any good ideas, but I want to say that I get it. You want your vengeance. Don’t let people talk you out of it. You deserve it, and within the bounds of the law, you shall have it.
I once sent a television return receipt, to Zenith. They wouldn’t make good, so I at least had the satisfaction of knowing that someone had to deal with that shit.
@hajario is correct; even if your perfidies make it past the postal workers who are simply trying to deliver the packages they’ll only go to low level workers who probably don’t even have any particular political leanings and are just trying to make a minimum wage. If you really want to fuck with the RNC you need to lure them in with pledges of offering them a large estate or bountiful resources and then yank the curtain away to reveal a Trump effigy made of compressed hard boiled eggs or frozen feces. But really, these people are so used to being shit upon by their anointed leader there is little you can do that is worse than what they already endure.
As a wise person once said, “The best revenge is living well,” and as fulfilling as it might seem to get vengeance though a father that clearly differed with your political views you are going to be most constructive by making his support meaningless in undermining the target, i.e. making the GOP irrelevant. Make a contribution to Liz Warren or AOC “in memoriam of” and imagine the outrage that would have resulted had he still been alive.
“Fuck the dead. If they were truly devoted, they wouldn’t have gone off and died like a bunch of useless cunts.”
I continue to get occasional junk mail for my deceased father, including some idiot who wants to buy a specific house that was sold years ago. None of this has lit incandescent rage in my heart such that I wanted to smash their faces in. So I assume it is the identity of these solicitors that is the major problem?
I’m sorry you’re so angry about them, but they don’t give a damn about you (or your father) and they never will. You will never get any satisfaction out of anything you can do with their mail. Even if you could find the apparently perfect response, nothing would change. Not what you want to hear, but it’s the truth. If you hate the liars and cheats who are trying to get money from your dead father, you should love the truth and act on it. Just throw the shit away and don’t soil yourself with it.
If I understand, the OP wants to do something, anything that makes him feel like the parties asking this of him feel bad, even if just for a moment.
So, while we could argue or debate whether this is helpful in the long run, I’m not going to fight the hypothetical. At the same time, I don’t want him to get in trouble (glitter, powder), or make work for the post office.
My answer? Prop money. Send those beggars prop money, and then snigger about them thinking they have the jackpot, only to have that moment of realization that it’s as fake as their morals.
You can also go to https://www.dmachoice.org/ and set up an account for his name at whichever address(es) are relevant. It might take 6 months, but stuff will slow down.
I sympathize; when my Mom died 20-ish years ago she was on every right-leaning Limbaugh- / Hannity- / Arpaio-loving scamster list there was. We tried everything to stop the deluge of demands (not requests) for donations. DMA wasn’t perfect, but it made a big difference.
Being reminded your parent is deceased is bad. Being reminded that locusts were eating them alive in their dotage and are now still trying to eat them while they’re dead is even worse.
I dump unwanted mail solicitations in the recycle bin.
For all I know they wind up in the landfill anyway, but it only takes a few seconds, and you can at least imagine the paper being recycled for some beneficial cause or candidate.
I am not my dead dad. I do not want it. I asked them to stop, they refused.
I consider it harassment when someone sends unsolicited and requested-to-stop trash from coming to me and they won’t stop. You wanna argue their system is rigged to ignore reasonable requests, so I will go the unreasonable route.
My dad did not ever live at my address. He died the calendar year previous to me moving into my new home.
If the vultures have time to suss* out rerouting mail to A PRESUMED target address, change things in the computer, re-address the envelopes, etc–some manner of effort is going into that.
I’m a pretty grumpy Gus about unwanted garbage. When the local paper refused to stop throwing their stupid coupon mailers in my yard, I told them I would collect them and deposit their garbage back in their front office monthly until they stop sending them.
They stopped sending them. Reasonable requests are often ignored until you ratchet up request.
BEING LEFT ALONE IS MY RIGHT. If you won’t leave me alone after I’ve asked, prepared to be fucked with.
Thanks for understanding. I have to be emotionally even-keel and super-adult taking care of ALZ mom, another inheritance from dad. So, yes, I will be willfully petty about this. Catharsis.
This is what I’m looking to avoid. I don’t want to cross into questionable legality.
I’ve read that very fine sand is a far better replacement for glitter because it gets into even smaller crevasses, but I don’t want to run near any suspicious looking “powders.”
EXCELLENT idea. I was just ruminating on this before I checked the replies: They make some pretty stupid fake Trump Dollars.
I assume sending out the mail is a drone’s job and is largely automated. But COLLECTING return envelopes–some dumb monkey has to check to see if the CHEQUES* are real, or the cash, money order, etc–This would waste someone’s time, and one would surmise after the 10th fake donation maybe they’d make a note…?
When I waited tables, one of the harshest, most mean-spirited tricks pulled was when a Christian family would NOT LEAVE A TIP, but would put a folded fake $10/$20 that, when unfolded, revealed itself to be a bible tract. Usually it would say “money is useless in the kingdom of Heaven” or something like that. It’s bad enough not to tip, but FAKE money??? It’s like a prank.
I always wanted to collect them and present them to the church offering plate.
Both of you, see above. I have lived at this house only this calendar year, my father died before I moved here. I have not rerouted his mail here and I CERTAINLY have not notified the RNC any change of address requests. I have asked them to stop, but they won’t.
I made it clear I’m looking to be petty, you all come in and say “hey don’t feel those feelings!” That’s not the advise I was looking for, so it’s not helpful.
You can be as kind and as sorry as you want, when I’m asking for help about a flat tire and you’re just golly gee whiz so sorry but hey how about get over the flat tire?
I started opening the DJT requests and reading them aloud to my mom. She gets so upset about them, and it’s honestly a psychological experiment that needs to be pursued.
She was lucid enough to vote for DJT back when he ran, but her dementia has come on so swiftly she no longer remembers he even ran as president. So it’s particularly interesting how OFFENSIVE she finds his language and rhetoric–or generally the whole GOP’s. She voted for this nonsense because of partisan leanings. Now that her brain is simplified, she finds the nitty-gritty of their rhetoric absolutely disgusting.
But you’re right–they don’t ask. They demand, and they are insidious and will take food stamps and stolen credit cards. They don’t care.
Thanks for the last part, I bolded. You understand crux of the matter.
two instances of British Slang helped me make my points better. I am not British.