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Old 05-23-2020, 10:27 AM
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Originally Posted by erhrph View Post
Our mail boxes are being filled with "junk mail". This is stuff we don't subscribe to, and yet keeps coming with a vengeance. Individually, you can't stop it. If we all did NOT respond to such email solicitations, eventually they would disappear. These companies do studies on their effectiveness of mail advertising. Some of you are donating, buying, or participating from these mail solicitations. This is what keeps the mail cancer continuing. Keep in mind that if you donate to a "cause" pitched to you through the mail, your donation is helping to fund other mail distributions. What a waste of your money. DO NOT DONATE TO ANY POLITICAL CANDIDATE EVER!! If they get your address after you donate, you will be hounded for money till you die!
You can significantly reduce your political junk mail. Don't donate to a political candidate or PAC or political organization (such as the GOP or RNC). Don't be a "registered Democrat" or "registered Republican." Vote however you want to vote, just don't register as an official [insert party here].

The only downside to being unaffiliated is you can't vote in the primaries in Florida. So you'd have to affiliate for the primaries - and then you can opt out again once the primaries are over. You can only affiliate with a single party - you can't switch during the primary season, only once before hand, and then again after it's over (so no, you can't cheat and vote in each party's primary).