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Showing posts with label Unwanted Junk mail catalogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unwanted Junk mail catalogs. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Toyota #junkmail Customer service #fail


Toyota #junkmail Customer service #fail

Speaking of customer service: For 3-years we have asked Toyota 6 times to remove us from its unwanted #junkmail marketing campaign. #FAIL

Dec. 16, 2015

We are now once again asking Toyota to stop mailing us junk marketing materials. What is the point of mailing stuff to folks who do not want the materials? If it is to annoy an otherwise good customer – it has worked.

As if it were not already well-accepted that going to new car dealerships to be a horrible experience….

Toyota Tampa Permit #2245, 9427 Corporate Lake Drive, Tampa, FL 33634 must be the junk mail capital of the world. Why isn’t there a way to ask the junk mailers to stop?

And anecdotally it has always appeared that Toyota sells personal information to the extended vehicle warranty scammers.

The Maryland Department of Motor Vehicles has said that they do not sell private personal information to marketers – so how do the scammers get the information?

We asked Ford once to not put us into its junk mail marketing campaigns when we had the truck repaired recently for a recall notice and never received any junk mail.

Gee, I guess we will avoid Toyota dealerships in the future. Just saying

We have been registered with the Direct Marketing Association www.dmachoice.org - do not mail list for years – but it certainly does not stop the unscrupulous.

We already avoid buying anything from mail-order catalogs because of the unwanted junk mail catalog problems a purchase creates….

Related – please see: Los Angeles Times: Firm's extended vehicle warranty offer breaks down under scrutiny http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2015/12/los-angeles-times-firms-extended.html A letter that appears to be from an auto dealer is actually from an out-of-state company selling an expensive contract with a sweeping loophole. March 12, 2013|David Lazarus Los Angeles Times http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/12/business/la-fi-lazarus-20130312

Federal Trade Commission: Stopping Unsolicited Mail, Phone Calls, and Email http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0262-stopping-unsolicited-mail-phone-calls-and-email

Direct Marketing Association www.dmachoice.org

Maryland Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle Administration – Protecting your privacy http://www.mva.maryland.gov/drivers/driving-record-information/driving-record-privacy.htm

Protecting Your Privacy

The Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration Safeguards Your Driving and Vehicle Records

Your Driving and Vehicle Records Are Your Business

As of July 1, 2000, every driving and motor vehicle record in the State of Maryland is closed unless you request, in writing, that your records be open to the public.

Your private records are protected from public scrutiny, thanks to a bill passed by the Maryland General Assembly and signed into law by the Governor. Your records are now automatically closed to the public unless they are requested by the police, an insurance company, a hospital or for another official business purpose.

The Motor Vehicle Administration's (MVA's) computer system works with other national systems (the national Driver Registry, Problem Driver Pointer System, Social Security Administration and Commercial Driver License Information System) to compare data. The MVA uses a firewall to assure the safety of its information and all its data systems and computer programs are safe and secure. Built-in safeguards in the MVA's computer system reduce the risk of identity fraud and protect the security of all transactions.

Now, without written permission from you, no one, except for those groups listed above who need this information for official business purposes, can obtain the following personal information about you from the Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA):


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Friday, October 16, 2015

Tired of junk mail – check out the “Drowning in Junk Mail” website


Tired of junk mail – check out the “Drowning in Junk Mail” website: https://drowndinginmail.wordpress.com/

October 16, 2015

In all the years I have worked hard to stop receiving junk mail, I have never seen as informative a website as “Drowning in Junk Mail” - https://drowndinginmail.wordpress.com/

The “Drowning in Junk Mail” latest post, “How to Stop Mail for a Deceased Person
OCTOBER 14, 2015 - https://drowndinginmail.wordpress.com/ is extremely informative. And timely for me since my family just got junk mail from The Nature Conservancy to a family member that passed away years ago. It made me very sad.

AARP has a great check list of things to do when someone dies. I am going to expand on the section about what to do with a deceased person’s mail….”

Two other recent posts from which I got a great deal of value are found here: Drowning in Junk Mail – How to Opt-out of Junk Mail Using a DMA Ethics Complaint - JANUARY 23, 2015: https://drowndinginmail.wordpress.com/2015/01/23/drowning-in-junk-mail-how-to-opt-out-of-junk-mail-using-a-dma-ethics-complaint/

And here: Drowning in Junk Mail – How to Opt-out of Junk Mail and Phone Calls from InfoCision - FEBRUARY 4, 2015: https://drowndinginmail.wordpress.com/tag/nature-conservancy/

In the years I have worked hard to stop the volume of junk mail I receive from marketers, charities and scams, I cannot recall finding a more informative website.

Fortunately, years into the fray, I have to realize that there is no silver bullet and that it is a never-ending fray and one needs to be constantly vigilant.

I truly believe in my heart that there is a special place in hell for the direct mail junk mail marketers.

DMA ethics guidelines:



They can send complaints to non-members, but they cannot guarantee that the non-member will stop sending mail.

There are a couple of ways to file a complaint with the Ethics Board at the DMA:

The best way is to fill out the online form, you can upload photos and emails.

Or you can go old school and mail in an example of the junk mail and a complaint letter to:
Direct Marketing Association
Corporate & Social Responsibility (CSR) Department
1615 L St. NW Suite 1100

Washington, DC 20036-5624
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Tony Bradley, PCWorld Nov 11, 2011: How to Stop Telemarketing Calls to Your Mobile Phone

How to Stop Telemarketing Calls to Your Mobile Phone

Retrieved Tuesday, June 23, 2015

By Tony Bradley, PCWorld Nov 11, 2011

Everyone has encountered a telemarketing call. It may be a robocall directing you to vote for some political candidate, or perhaps some local organization seeking donations. But, most people are used to getting those calls on their home land line, not their mobile phones. Telemarketers are increasingly targeting mobile phone numbers, though, so here is what you need to do to stop--or at least minimize--those annoying calls.


There is a common misperception that mobile phones are somehow inherently protected against telemarketing solicitations. Unfortunately, that is not true.

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There are two easy ways to add you mobile phone number to the FTC Do Not Call registry:


Call Directly: 1-888-382-1222


Related: FTC National Do Not Call Registry


The National Do Not Call Registry is managed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation's consumer protection agency.

Information for Consumers. Click here if you would like more information on how to register, what registration means for you, what calls are covered and more.

Information for Businesses. Click here for answers to some common questions from telemarketers and sellers.

Information for the Media. Click here for media materials related to the National Do Not Call Registry. 

ENFORCEMENT OF THE DO NOT CALL REGISTRY
The FTC takes aggressive legal action to make sure telemarketers abide by the Do Not Call Registry. To date, the Commission has brought 105 enforcement actions against companies and telemarketers for Do Not Call, abandoned call, robocall and Registry violations. The Mortgage Investors litigation produced the largest settlement for Do Not Call violations, resulting in civil penalty payments of $7.5 million. To date, 80 of these FTC enforcement actions have been resolved, and in those cases the agency has recovered over $41 million in civil penalties and $33 million in redress or disgorgement.








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