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I donated to the ACLU on Trump’s first weekend in office when he made such a cock-up of his travel ban. Then the letters started coming begging for more money.
by mikeash 8y ago
I donated to the ACLU on Trump’s first weekend in office when he made such a cock-up of his travel ban. Then the letters started coming begging for more money. I like their ostensible mission but I don’t want more junk mail. At this point I’m pretty sure they’ve spent more money mailing me shit than I donated, and destroyed all my motivation to give them anything more. It’s too bad, because we do need organizations like this, but why do they have to piss off the people who want to support them?
- _bxg1 8y agoThey can get annoying with the junk mail. Still, that's a small price to pay for the work they do.
- mikeash 8y agoIt’s not just the annoyance, but a bad use of resources.
- rtkwe 8y agoBulk mail is significantly cheaper than retail rates. They're paying about 40% or more less than you do for each letter so it doesn't take many donations to pay for all the letters that don't net donations. For 200+ pieces of 'marketing mail' they're only paying ~19c per letter. [0] [0] https://www.themailshark.com/resources/blog/bulk-mail-postage-rates/ https://www.themailshark.com/resources/blog/bulk-mail-postag...