FREQUENT AARP emails - asking members to sign-up for Automatic Membership Renewal
I just received an email with the request - "One optional step many members forget is turning on Automatic Renewal. It helps make sure your membership renews on time, without extra reminders or last‑minute steps." -- My membership is currently active till 4/30/2033 - almost 7 years into the future. I had almost 2 years left when I accepted an offer to extend membership 5 years at a reduced rate, which I've done before. Why oh why do we need to be, harassed with renewal requests or requests that we take automatic renewal when we have a subscription far into the future, or even over a year into the future? That is extremely annoying to receive over and over again. We get barraged by too much email (not just AARP), without being reminded about a non-problem, right? And as a former programmer, it seems like some simple rules could be employed to not send renewal type notices to people with a subscription significantly into the future. -- I am seriously against agreeing to most automatic renewals to let a company pull money out of an account at the new increased rate, for an annual rate which will also be higher, so unlikely I will ever agree to such an option, and this is just annoying and seemingly frequent. Yet I don't want to opt out of a whole class of emails to avoid that one topic.