On 2/19/2013 9:54 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 19/02/2013 9:21 PM, James Silverton wrote:
>> There are a lot of worthy charities to which I contribute but it seems
>> that the requests for money tend to come earlier and earlier each year.
>> This amounts to a sneaky attempt to get a larger annual contribution. I
>> wonder if they realize that if I put the requests aside I will probably
>> forget them completely.
>>
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> I must be jaded but I think that most of it has become about making
> money for the companies contracted to do the fund raising than about
> raising money for the charity. I give to the Cancer Society, and I
> started getting calls from the liver cancer society, pancreatic cancer
> society, skin cancer society, lymphoma society, brain cancer society......
> More than 50% of my mail is beg letters. Today it was a beg letter from
> one of the cancer societies and a big envelope full of cards and address
> stickers from the Multiple Sclerosis Society with a recommended
> donation, worth about ten times as much as the material that I got for
> free because it is unsolicited.
>
>
I will never have to buy address labels again!! I receive them from
charities I've never had any dealings with. It doesn't make me want to
give them money. Seems they're spending it rather foolishly.

Jill