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Peter[_14_]

On 11/22/2016 10:24 AM, wrote:
I have saved all charitable requests received in the mail since about
the middle of October, just for curiosity. As of this morning, I
have more than 40 requests for support. There may be some duplicates
in the pile, I didn't make any effort to sort out and throw out
duplicates. I use Charity Navigator as my primary screening tool, as
well as those local charities my wife and I are personally acquainted
with. It still is a huge amount of effort to relieve my wife and
myself of our hard-earned pension and savings. What do other folks
do?

Most charities include a self addressed pre-paid postage envelope. If
it's a charity we know we'll never support financially, we write a short
note asking them remove us from their mailing list to save them the
expense of wasted mailings and save a few trees in the process. We mail
it back in their envelope. We've had good luck with that strategy.

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