SLOW DOWN THE RENEWAL BOMBARDMENT

[RobertS803974]

AARP,

OMG, give me a break! I've already renewed, your desperation to retain members is so incredibly frustrating me I'm considering cancelling payment on my check. Please stop sending the massive flood of renewal reminders, offers, useless free gifts, "exceptional pricing", ...... And it comes in email, USPS, and texts. ENOUGH!    I know you're thinking that I can choose my preferred method, go through a huge list of subjects that I care about to limit what I receive; BUT I shouldn't have to!!

Your practices and ethics in contacting me are as bad as SPAM calls and texts from political candidates.

Which BTW, if any member reads this and is looking for my vote for President, put spam and/or robo calls/texts, the sale of information obtained by me or my devices, eliminating the use of BOTS in company contact methods, and unsolicited marketing at the top of your charter.

Take notice AARP, all of your "Contact methods" show up as BOTS; I don't want to speak for everyone but I seriously doubt this group of seniors wishes be routed in a circle of communications to ultimately give up and resort to posting in a forum to find if any other members have had luck in trying to achieve resolution for a task.

[KenJ492149]

Ditto     We are so sick of the never ending mailings related to money grabs too.

Would like to cancel what's left of this three or five year membership and get whatever money back we can.

Ken

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[ClaytonWing]

This is how I reduced my AARP mailers…

Keep in mind AARP has several postal mailing lists - potential members, current members, past members, affiliate list, etc. You may be on all four lists which means you will need to remove EACH name/address variation from EACH  list.

Save the mailers until they stop - take note of the name/address variations. I separated them into different stacks depending on name/address variation. I determined I was on ALL mailing lists.

* Affiliate list - ex. AARP NY Life, AARP Hartford, AARP Medicare Supplement - you will need to contact these companies directly via email and request removal of EACH name/address variation from their postal mailing list.

* AARP Foundation - you will need to close your donor account to stop these postal mailers. If you have an online account be sure to update phone to 555-555-555 and junk/fake email and update communication preferences.

* Member list - Reduce renewal notices - Log into AARP account > my account > communications preferences > limited renewal notices. This will reduce mailers to one prior to expiration, one emailed and one 30-days post expiration.

TIP: AARP’s auto renewal program which will stop the postal renewal notices.

After this step you should only receive renewal notices as stated above and AARP Magazine/Bulletin. If you receive more proceed to past member.

* Past member list -  verify you don’t have an old inactive account - which I had three. You will need to close this account to stop those mailers. Visit AARP website (do NOT log in) > membership/renew section > check membership status (questions near bottom of membership webpage > AARP membership lookup.

Enter name/zip codes of ALL current/old addresses as well as DOB. Old address info can be found via free lookup websites like truepeoplesearch and credit reports.

If you have an old account it will say “welcome back xxxx” and list name/address connected to account & a partial account number. Select “edit” - to check if there is an email connected to account. Hopefully, this will only show your current membership. If it shows another account - ex. account with old address. You will need to close this account to stop those mailers from being delivered to your old address which may be forwarded to current address.

I logged into my old AARP account using old email info & forgot password option. I updated my personal info - phone 555-555-5555, email fake/junk, updated communication preferences, changed to current address so old address wouldn’t be bothered with my mail, etc.

I had an old account with my ex-spouse (her current address/no email connected) - this case I contacted AARP via chat and asked for that account to be closed. When they ask for name/zip code be sure to give them the info from the old account. Come to find out my ex was a member using this account but never removed my name. I requested for my name to be removed for which I had to give them my DOB. I waited 2 months and check membership status online and my name wasn’t attached anymore.

I had an account with another ex-spouse (old address/no email) - this account wasn’t active so it was easily closed. Again, waited 2 months and account wasn’t found by searching my info and exes info.

After all old accounts are resolved you should only receive mailers as indicated in member section. If receiving more proceed to non-member list tips.

* Non-member list - contact AARP via chat (name/no phone number) and request removal of name/address variation on postal mailer. You can also use CatalogChoice & PaperKarma to stop these AARP mailers.

[SereneSeagull]

This post @ClaytonWing  should be pinned to every discussion topic here, as it seems like it’s daily someone complains about junk mail from here, and then the pile on of posts begins.  Thank you for writing in so much detail and to care enough to do so on the boards.  This will be appreciated.  👍😃

[AARPConsumerCare]

@RobertS803974   I totally understand, and I can adjust your mail preferences. Please reach out in a private message with your membership information. Thank you.  Jodee R.