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Congratulations. :thewave
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Good for you.
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Just what I need, a lifetime of being hounded by the NRA via emails and USPS. No thanks.

I like what they stand for, but I wish I could turn-off their advertising. I haven't decided whether I will renew again (signed-up for 3 years maybe last year) but I doubt at this point that even if I DON'T renew that they will stop pestering me.

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Congrats. Been a Life member since ~1975.
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TomsTXCHL wrote:Just what I need, a lifetime of being hounded by the NRA via emails and USPS. No thanks.

I like what they stand for, but I wish I could turn-off their advertising. I haven't decided whether I will renew again (signed-up for 3 years maybe last year) but I doubt at this point that even if I DON'T renew that they will stop pestering me.

:grumble
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I am a Patron. I solved all cold-calling by saying "Hang on a sec, will ya! I see a black heli with a white UN on it circling low over my house! Be back right after I nail him!" A few of those, and blessed silence.
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TomsTXCHL wrote:Just what I need, a lifetime of being hounded by the NRA via emails and USPS. No thanks.

I like what they stand for, but I wish I could turn-off their advertising. I haven't decided whether I will renew again (signed-up for 3 years maybe last year) but I doubt at this point that even if I DON'T renew that they will stop pestering me.
The NRA does a very good job of honoring members' requests to be put on the "no marketing" list. Just call and tell them your preferences. Works like a charm. Does NOT, however, work with AAA, ARP, and others.

I'm a Patron Life member and I receive occasional emails regarding my instructor certification and NRA store promos, maybe one email every three weeks on average, but the only snail-mail I get are announcements of new benefits...and one of my favorite magazines, American Rifleman. Other than the magazine, I receive maybe six snail-mails a year from the NRA.


And sbrawley, thanks for becoming a lifer. 'Preciate it.
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Skiprr wrote:
TomsTXCHL wrote:Just what I need, a lifetime of being hounded by the NRA via emails and USPS. No thanks.

I like what they stand for, but I wish I could turn-off their advertising. I haven't decided whether I will renew again (signed-up for 3 years maybe last year) but I doubt at this point that even if I DON'T renew that they will stop pestering me.
The NRA does a very good job of honoring members' requests to be put on the "no marketing" list. Just call and tell them your preferences.
I have instead been selectively un-subscribing from emails based upon their content i.e. in just the couple of days since posting here I've unsubscribed to:
market_place
special_announcements
palladium_books

but I will probably stick with NRA-ILA notifications, and we'll see what others come down-the-pipe. Doing the "click here" at the bottom of emails I find annoying seems a better approach than just calling and unlisting from everything, so long as the Lyris ListManager requests get honored.

So far so good. :thumbs2:
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TomsTXCHL wrote:
Skiprr wrote:
TomsTXCHL wrote:Just what I need, a lifetime of being hounded by the NRA via emails and USPS. No thanks.

I like what they stand for, but I wish I could turn-off their advertising. I haven't decided whether I will renew again (signed-up for 3 years maybe last year) but I doubt at this point that even if I DON'T renew that they will stop pestering me.
The NRA does a very good job of honoring members' requests to be put on the "no marketing" list. Just call and tell them your preferences.
I have instead been selectively un-subscribing from emails based upon their content i.e. in just the couple of days since posting here I've unsubscribed to:
market_place
special_announcements
palladium_books

but I will probably stick with NRA-ILA notifications, and we'll see what others come down-the-pipe. Doing the "click here" at the bottom of emails I find annoying seems a better approach than just calling and unlisting from everything, so long as the Lyris ListManager requests get honored.

So far so good. :thumbs2:
I've had a similar experience.

When I first joined, i remember the FLOOD of snailmail. Really cheesed me. harassment, I thought.
Two phone calls and it stopped almost immediately.
Call #1 to NRA member services shut off all the NRA mail
Call #2 to the organization that handles all the insurance offers with the NRA logo got that spigot turned off.
Not sure why the second call was necessary, but it was.

I now get the occasional email (maybe 3-4 per month) and the occasional snailmmail (maybe 1-2 per month in addition to the magazine). Most of them for things I kept myself on the list to receive. It was pretty easy to turn it all off, but I understand the annoyance in having to make the effort to do so. Opt-in would be a better policy when you're paying to become a member.

Still... worth the minor annoyance.
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sbrawley - Thank you and welcome to the NRA :patriot: :txflag:
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I just upgraded from a Life Member [1983] to an Endowment Member! It's about time. :shock:
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Took me a while, several calls and unsubscribing to e-mails, but the only thing I get from them is my American Rifleman magazine.
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77346 wrote:Took me a while, several calls and unsubscribing to e-mails, but the only thing I get from them is my American Rifleman magazine.
I had complained about email earlier in this thread, but as it happens when you get one you don't like, clicking on "unsubscribe" for that category does work--I'm not getting any more emails except for (I think) just the NRAstore ones.

Glad to see their system works. I do like American Rifleman a lot too. :patriot:
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