Charities

I'm getting really irate with the number of charities that are sending out promotional rubbish in an effort to entice money out of us.

In the past couple of weeks I have received pens, address labels, coasters and cards.  And just yesterday I received a, 'Thank you CD', which actually had on the front of it, 'This cost 16p to produce'.

Needless to say, I didn't listen to my, '16p thank you CD'.  The pens, address labels, coasters & cards are all absolute crap!!!!  They go straight in the bin as soon as I get them.

The pens are all scratchy & horrible,  the address labels are something that might have been quite useful in the 1970's - but who uses sticky address labels these days?, the coasters................ well the coasters are beyond even commenting on..................... and the cards?!  Well you could get much nicer ones in Tesco for £1??!!

So why are charities sending out all this promotional rubbish that no-one wants?

Have they actually done any research to see if anyone wants their crap?

I haven't got a clue how many of these 'marketing' letters that charities send out - but even if it's just 1000 at 16p per CD that's £160 and that's not taking into account the cost of the postage and paper.

It's ludicrous!!!!

Why do they do it?

Does the lure of a free pen or a sticky address label really entice anyone to sign up and donate
millions to a charity???

Sadly I think not??!!