Help a parent keep chosen charity mail
Have your parent name the charity they want to keep hearing from before you send any stop requests. Then write directly to the organizations they want to drop. A general cleanup can silence a cause they still support.
Sort the appeals with your parent
- Lay out recent charity mail by sender name, without reading the letters. Ask your parent which organizations they recognize.
- Mark the charity they want to keep. If it writes too often, plan to ask for fewer appeals rather than none.
- Mark the ones they want to stop and copy each name and address exactly as printed.
- Contact the donor-services address or phone number on each stop sender's own materials and ask it to remove your parent from postal appeals.
- Ask the kept charity whether it offers fewer mailings or a newsletter without appeals.
Receipts are not appeals
A charity your parent supports may also send receipts or giving acknowledgments. Set those aside for your parent. They are records, not advertising.
The giving decisions stay with your parent. Do not review donation history or decide amounts. If they are unsure about an organization, leave it on the keep side until they choose.
Recipient-approved keep list
Example for your own use. Replace the bracketed details and review what you share.
Add new senders as they appear
When an appeal arrives from a charity not on the list, show it to your parent. If they want it stopped, add it to the stop column and send the same request.
Official source
Keep personal records with the organization that handles them
Junk Mail Magic is for ordinary unwanted advertising. Use the official contact route in this guide for records, account changes or someone else’s correspondence.
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