WHY IS AARP WASTING OUR MEMBERSHIP FEES ON RIDICULOUS MAILINGS?

[nctarheel]

Guess what I got in the mail yesterday?

I got a ridiculous mailing from AARP touting a savings of $5.00 if I give them my credit card number so they can charge me $15 this time for my membership, $20 next time for my membership, and whatever it goes up to in the years after that.

WHY DO I CALL THIS A RIDICULOUS MAILING.....................

(1) I don't give out my credit card information to any subscription type entity because it is almost impossible to get them to stop charging your card.

(2) I negotiated, by phone, a membership fee of $9 a year for the next five years through 2030, so what made them think I was a candidate for this type of mailing.

(3) I have been a member for years and years and the above MEMBERSHIP FEE negotiation was months and months ago so the excuse that things "crossed each other in the mail" DOES NOT fly.

This is just another example of AARP'S chaos in that the left hand never knows what the right hand is doing in the organization.

Normally, that would not bother me but it is MY MEMBERSHIP FEES paying for those RIDICULOUS MAILINGS.

This misuse of OUR MEMBERSHIP FEES should be addressed by the MANAGEMENT of AARP; but it is not.

[SpringIsHereVA]

@nctarheel , on the part of your discussion about the wasteful AARP mailings. And add the weekly inserts in the lovely "clog" my mailbox up "junk packages" from those Marketing Firms they "pay" to do this. IF it was NOT for this "weekly" gift in my mailbox, I would NEVER have to make a trip to clear it out. I do ONLINE FOR EVERYTHING. Oh my goodness, asking for YOUR credit card number. Really AARP???

As usual, a great discussion NC. Lol, now to see if it gets deleted.

HAPPY Thursday Everyone, Nicole!