Requests for donations from the elderly exceed harassment.  Having just returned from the second of two trips to visit my very sick and elderly mother, I feel I cannot go a moment longer without expressing my concern on this issue:

In a period of 14 days, my mother received over 100 (ONE HUNDRED) requests for charitable donations, many of which she had already contributed to within either several weeks or months!  My mother has every right to contribute to whatever organizations and charities she wishes to, but it becomes harassment when a person receives not one, two, three, but multiple requests from the same organizations even after a contribution has been made. 

My mother is dying and yet she spends hours at the table reading through all of this junk ( and I mean junk) mail asking her to send money, because she feels like she needs to respond. She then spends hours looking at her hand-written journal of whom she has given to and when.  Her hours should be spent enjoying her friends, her family and whatever else she loves to do. We all agree that she can leave whatever she wishes to these organizations in her will.

I am asking for help in how to curb this excessive mail coming to our home. I know this is an issue for many people across the country. The post office should be charging extra fees for this commercial mail....many of these requests come from the same clearing house.  Trying to contact these organizations to ask to be removed from their mailing lists is difficult, because most times they do not give a phone number, or email address to respond.

I would like very much to make this a viral communication as so many of our family and friends are inundated by these harrassing requests and many feel obligated to respond.

If you have resources, please share. If you can contact your representatives, even better.  Thank you