Junk Mail to Dead People
August 01, 2006 04:05 PM Filed in: Rants
American Express has the most screwed up mailing
databases in the world.
In a previous residence, they kept sending applications for business credit cards to my address, because I happened to have been the unfortunate recipient of the previous phone number of that business.
At my current residence (and by the way, this is a new house so I'm the first owner), they send me credit card applications for the person I bought my previous house from (in another state). And now, they send me credit card applications for my mother who has been dead for over 11 years, and whose credit report I'm sure is marked with the fact that she's deceased.
The good news is I found this number: 877-370-0976 -- it's an American Express "Stop these incorrect mailings" phone number. They took the information from the mailing and committed to removing the incorrect entries from their database within 6-8 weeks. We'll see....
In a previous residence, they kept sending applications for business credit cards to my address, because I happened to have been the unfortunate recipient of the previous phone number of that business.
At my current residence (and by the way, this is a new house so I'm the first owner), they send me credit card applications for the person I bought my previous house from (in another state). And now, they send me credit card applications for my mother who has been dead for over 11 years, and whose credit report I'm sure is marked with the fact that she's deceased.
The good news is I found this number: 877-370-0976 -- it's an American Express "Stop these incorrect mailings" phone number. They took the information from the mailing and committed to removing the incorrect entries from their database within 6-8 weeks. We'll see....
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