Just wondered if anyone had any advice?

I dont have any advice, but I did find this article. I dont know if it will be helpful

https://www.themckenziefirm.com/stop-mail-addressed-to-a-deceased-person/

If he didn't live with you (if he had a different address), you can do a change of address form so his first class mail will come to you and the junk mail will not. If you want to spend the time writing to the solicitors, it will probably stop some of them, but I think it's cheaper for them to keep sending stuff than to purge people from their lists. A lot of non-profits don't do their own mailing anyway, but hire 3rd party mailing companies to do it for them.

When my dad died, I did all of the things localeater's article above suggested and it did eventually work. I started having all of his mail forwarded to my house and a lot of the junk mail they won't bother to forward. It was a nice added bonus. :)

What is funny is that AARP is my worst offender. They still persist in sending letters addressed to my dad with the words "We haven't heard from you" emblazoned across the outside. Yeah, he's been dead for years and you're not going to hear from him...so give it up folks.

You'd think AARP - of all places - would know how to handle people dying and getting them removed from mail distribution!

The recycling bin will be your friend. But it does eventually almost stop.

Thanks so much! (I used to get the insurance premium notices for the owner of our last house. She had moved in with her daughter, so we forwarded them for a while. Then she died, and we forwarded them for a while longer. Then we started writing “deceased—return to sender” on the envelopes and sending them back. Then we moved!)

My recycling bin and shredder are getting a workout already. But I do have to pay closer attention. I was ready to just file a Medicare sheet when I noticed it referred to his death, so I need to keep it with related items for a little bit while I make sure everything is clear.

My Mum felt inundated with solicitations so she decided to collect all the requests in a shoe box. Within 6 months it was overstuffed. And my little old lady Mum has big feet so it was a big box.

Some were groups she does give to but that just encourages them to ask for more, some were groups she once gave to, and plenty were for groups that bought her name and address (from the above groups).

What really makes her crazy is when the groups she supports mail it to her old apartment number 12+ years after she changed apartments. I don’t know why that bothers her so much, the mailman still gets it to her. And then she stuffs it in the shoebox.

My mom isn't dead but has severe dementia and I was tired of getting her professional journals, etc. Most of the stuff I got had an email address and I just emailed them all. They were all obliging and stopped sending me the stuff that was no longer of use.

We are going through this issue with my mom, she receives requests for money from practically every charity out there. An incredible amount of mail, would fill a shoe box within a day or two. My mom is very much alive but moved to an Assisted Living and I have started helping her with her financials so I am trying to eliminate this waste of paper. We have opened a new PO Box hopefully that will help.

My mom still owns my grandmother’s house, she rents it out. When I met the Property Manager at the house recently, a few pieces of mail were in the mailbox. One letter was from a charity asking my grandmother for money, she has been dead for 30 years. Shows how hard it is to get this type of mail turned off.

I still get stuff for my late husband who died in 2004, my mom who died in 2011 (and never even lived at this address), and my dear departed cat Luther who died in 2006. Luther gets lots of credit card applications. I toss everything. It no longer bothers me.

Like Bunny, I get mail for my mother who died two years ago and my brother who died in 1995. Neither of them ever lived here. I have no idea how my address got mixed up with theirs since we lived in three different states and I changed my name from theirs to my husband's name fifty one years ago.

I also get lots of mail for all my kids who did live here, but the last one moved out in 2003. Just keep tossing it, don't even bother to open or shred it.

I gave to one of those save the children deals. They then put me on their "bug her monthly" list. I donated at my regular time with a note "if I hear from you before a year has passed you will never hear from me again'. It did nothing. They don't read their mail or don't care. Best practice says if we keep sending requests in the long run IT WORKS. My favorite most satisfying retort is to rip up the inside crap and stuff it back in their pre-stamped envelope and send it back. If it is really bugging me I swap the solicitations with a different one and give A's to B and vise versa. THAT seems to work. They don't pay for the envelope's postage until they are used..so I make sure I use them!!!

This post reminds me that if you are searching around for some way to help a grieving person, this is a good thing to do, help them cancel all their subscriptions and catalogs, mailings, etc. for the deceased person. My mom was on a lot of lists and it greatly upset my dad to keep getting mail for her. A friend offered to help me and I managed to get her off of most of the lists. There are still a few lagging that I just haven't followed up on, but I ended most of them with a call, a few with a note, and a few took calls, notes and nasty letters to get stopped. Most places had a system in place for stopping the subscriptions, solicitations, etc. so all it took was one attempt. It's odd to me that the one I can't stop by writing "DECEASED" on the solicitation and putting it in the mail is from a hearing aide center. My mom never even had a hearing aide.

The robo political calls are the most horrific, particularly since it is not from her party. Luckily I hang up as soon as the recording starts.