How to Get Off Mailing Lists!

[Bestwifeever]

Yes. And wait until the kid is in college. Then you get ads for exam care package services, storage services, bed sheets, school rings, diploma frames, commencement announcements, moving services, yearbooks, etc. All of these come on stationary which makes you think it's an official university communication.

They send fancy mock-ups of the commencement announcement, which I will scan in and produce myself.

When your kid is in college, be sure you look through all of the college's bulk mailings carefully--we looked at a fancy brochure for current and prospective students at DD's college and unbeknownst to us, there the three of us were, walking down the school's main lane, at the previous year's family weekend.

 

[Nords]

When your kid is in college, be sure you look through all of the college's bulk mailings carefully--we looked at a fancy brochure for current and prospective students at DD's college and unbeknownst to us, there the three of us were, walking down the school's main lane, at the previous year's family weekend.

The son of a high-school friend is at USNA. When he reported for plebe summer, the local photographer was signing parents up for their plebe-summer photo package. They had USNA's permission to roam the Yard taking photos of summer training and then post them on their website for parents to log in, peruse, and share with others. The photographers were everywhere all day shooting gigabytes of images, so the midshipmen soon learned to ignore them.

Guess how Mom found out that Son had broken his ankle...