Today I pickup my mail to find a letter from AARP. It looked like a bill owed. Picture of the letter is below. So in reading the notice I find out that according to AARP I ordered a 3 yr membership. There is no way I ordered a friggen membership from AARP nor did my wife. So I am thinking someone who knows me must be playing a trick on me...they know what I think of AARP.

So I call AARP and explain to the nice lady that I got a bill in the mail for a membership I did not order , that someone must be playing a joke on me. She said no they most likely got my name from a list. She admitted that it looks like a bill. I told her that in the letter it said that I had ordered the membership....this is like trickery. I told her that it does not look good when an organization has to resort to trickery for their membership.

I hate AARP

I send them this letter in their prepaid mailers:
Dear AARP,

Recently you sent us a letter encouraging us to renew our lapsed membership in AARP by the requested date. This isn't what you were looking for, but it's is the most honest response I can give you. Our coverage gap is a microscopic symptom of the real problem, a deepening lack of faith. While we have proudly maintained our membership for years and long admired the AARP goals and principles, regrettably, we can no longer endorse its abdication of our values. Your letter stated that we can count on AARP to speak up for our rights, yet the voice we hear is not ours.

Your offer of being kept up to date on important issues through DIVIDED WE FAIL presents neither an impartial view nor the one we have come to embrace. We do believe that when two parties agree all the time on everything presented to them, one is probably not necessary. But, when the opinions and long term goals are diametrically opposed, the divorce is imminent. This is the philosophy which spawned our 200 years of government.

Once upon a time, we looked forward to being part of the senior demographic. We also looked to AARP to provide certain benefits and give our voice a power we could not possibly hope to achieve on our own. AARP once gave us a sense of belonging which we no longer enjoy. The Socialist politics practiced by the Obama Regime and empowered by AARP serves only to raise the blood pressure my medical insurance strives to contain. Clearly a conflict of interest there! We do not understand the AARP posture, feel greatly betrayed by the guiding forces that we expected to map out our senior years and leave your ranks with a great sense of regret. We mitigate that disappointment with the relief of knowing that we are not contributing to the problem anymore by renewing our membership. There are numerous other organizations which offer discounts without threatening our way of life or offending our sensibilities and values.

This Obama Regime scares the living daylights out of us. Not just for ourselves, but for our proud and bloodstained heritage. But more importantly for our children and grandchildren. Washington has rendered Soylent Green a prophetic cautionary tale rather than a nonfiction scare tactic. I have never endorsed any militant or radical groups, yet now I find myself listening to them. I don't have to agree with them to appreciate the fear which birthed their existence. Their borderline insanity presents little more than a balance to the voice of the Socialist Mindset in power. Perhaps I became American by a great stroke of luck in some cosmic uterine lottery, but in my adulthood I CHOOSE to embrace it and nurture the freedoms it represents as well as the responsibilities.

Your web site generously offers us the opportunity to receive all communication in Spanish. ARE YOU KIDDING??? The illegal perpetrators have broken into our 'house', invaded our home without invitation or consent. The President insists we keep these illegal perpetrators in comfort and learn the perpetrator's language so we can communicate our reluctant welcome to them. I DON'T choose to welcome them, to support them, to educate them, to medicate them, or to pay for their food or clothing. American home invaders get arrested. Please explain to me why foreign lawbreakers can enjoy privileges on American soil that Americans do not get? Why do some immigrants have to play the game to be welcomed and others only have to break and enter to be welcomed?

We travel for a living. Walt hauls horses all over this great country, averaging over 10,000 miles a month when he is out there. He meets more people than a politician on caffeine overdose. Of all the many good folks he enjoyed on this last 10,000 miles, this trip yielded only ONE supporter of the current Regime. One of us is out of touch with mainstream America. Since our poll is conducted without funding, I have more faith in it than ones that are driven by a need to yield AMNESTY (aka-make voters out of the foreign lawbreakers so they can vote to continue the governments free handouts). This addition of 10 to 20 million voters who then will vote to continue Socialism will OVERWHELM our votes to control the government's free handouts. It is a "slippery slope" we must not embark on!

As Margaret Thatcher (former Prime Minister of Great Britain) once said "Socialism is GREAT - UNTIL you run out of other people's money".

We have decided to forward this to everyone on our mailing list, and will encourage them to do the same. With several hundred in my address book, I have every faith that the eventual exponential factor will make a credible statement to you. I am disappointed as all get out! I am more scared than I have ever been in my entire life! I am ANGRY! I am MAD as heck, and I'm NOT gonna take it anymore!

Walt & Cyndy Miller,
Miller Farms Equine Transport

You made millions supporting that asshole in Washington, as opposed to Supporting your base! Screw AARP, I and everyone I know and talk to joined AMAC.

Is there a postage-paid return envelope with this? Tape it to a brick or something and mail it back.

I received a letter a few years ago from AARP. Said congratulations for being eligible for membership. In it was two membership cards and I was told to send $10 for the membership.

I wasn't 50 yet and still won't be for a couple of years. Seemed they needed "membership" numbers to me and were fishing. I joked with family and friends that I had been selected to retire early. Went in trash.

I would be seriously pissed... That doesnt "look like" a bill. It says you owe money for something you ordered, fifth notice, etc. You should report them to BBB at least.

Anything...ANYTHING...I get from those communist fucks goes directly into the trash after being torn in half.

They are about two steps lower than the Red Cross on my list, and trust me, that's not a compliment.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
Anything...ANYTHING...I get from those communist fucks goes directly into the trash after being torn in half.

They are about two steps lower than the Red Cross on my list, and trust me, that's not a compliment.

Same here. My burn barrel sits directly between my mailbox and my front door. 99% of the mail I receive, including anything and everything from those commie bastards, goes directly into it.

I scrap everything but the return mailers. Those get stuffed with the NRA junk mail and sent back.

I actually used to be a member, dropped it because their magazine starting containing politicized messages. Since then they have spent a $bundle trying to lure me back with constant mailings. Ain't gonna happen.

Wow, that is straight up gangsta! Sending mass mailings to senior citizens lying to them saying they owe you $ for a membership they signed up for? How is that any different than any other scam preying on the elderly? They might as well mention the king of Nigeria and the back taxes owed the IRS while they are at it.

I HATE AARP, I'm only 42, but will never be a member and will join the conservative alternative just to spite them.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
Anything...ANYTHING...I get from those communist fucks goes directly into the trash after being torn in half.

Spot on and same here. Only devitaion is that for those planning on "roughing it" in the Black Hills, we provide them AARP mailing crap to use in cleaning up their crap. LOL

I believe a year or two ago I read that some of the senior AARP leaders have very close ties to name brand Democrat leaders. I would imagine they scratch each other's backs quite often, and the purpose of the relationship is for both parties to gain a bit of money and a bit of political influence.

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Originally posted by stiab:
I actually used to be a member, dropped it because their magazine starting containing politicized messages....

Say it isn't so.

I got that same letter a few weeks ago.

I'm 27.

I cancelled my membership at the obvious liberal bias in mailings and magazine during O'Dumbos first election. They sent me an email that apologized for my reasons to cancel and requested if I wished to further explain in an emailing. I did so, and haven't looked back since, and no more correspondences either and that was in 08'.

Outright SCAM! And one that many elders could easily fall for. That letter needs to go either to the BBB, and or any local law enforcement agency that has a scam investigator.

I wipe my ass with everything they send me in the mail
No shit!

If your state has a consumer protection agency, file a complaint about this. Sounds like a deceptive business practice.

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Originally posted by rangeme101:
I received a letter a few years ago from AARP. Said congratulations for being eligible for membership. In it was two membership cards and I was told to send $10 for the membership.

I wasn't 50 yet and still won't be for a couple of years. Seemed they needed "membership" numbers to me and were fishing. I joked with family and friends that I had been selected to retire early. Went in trash.

You're lucky they waited until you were 50. I started getting shit like that when I was in my mid 20's since my father and I have the same name. Even multiple phone calls explains this to these morons didn't help for several years.

When I read your letter from AARP, I heard Bill Clinton's voice in my head reading it!