The post brings an invitation (addressed to Dear Colleague) to an all-day Debate and Lecture on ‘Older People and the Media’. I get the feeling that the Chief Executive of Counsel + Care is scraping the bottom of the barrel in sending it to me. I last gave them a donation in 1992; the letter was sent (with an incorrct postcode) to an address which I left more than five years ago.
I wonder how many other invitations have gone to people who are unlikely to receive them, or are far from ‘warm’ donors. For I think one has to be quite ‘warm’ to give up a day – even if lunch is provided!
We know times are hard, but this is far from the first instance, for me, of receiving a letter for which there has been insufficient care/research. I don’t know the relative costs of mail-shots versus address-checking, etc. Many charities, however, do need to appear to be more businesslike!
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