AARP Über Alles

AARP, formerly the American Association “of” (yeah, right, LOL!) Retired Persons, sent a piece of mail, providing a contact email address of:

aarpmember@aarp.org

But when I sent an email to that address, I received the following reply:

'Thank you for contacting AARP. This is an automated response from an unmonitored mailbox that does not accept messages or replies.

Have a question or need assistance? Visit the AARP Help Center..."

But AARP only allows for Phone (like I'm going to give those con artists my phone number), Chat (death to all chatbots, and in the unlikely event it's monitored by a human whose first language is English, not gonna waste my time), Facebook Messenger/X (no thanks, not gonna give that information up to hustlers), "Community Help Forums" (divulge personal contact information for all the world to see? Not everyone has Alzheimer's, AARP), and Text (nope, not gonna give up my phone number this way either).

If AARP won't provide a functioning email address, gives a bogus email address, and thinks people have nothing better to do than waste time on AARP wanting its corporate backside kissed, that just goes to reinforce that AARP isn't fit to kiss my posterior.

I did scrawl a nasty note on their mailing, circled the “unmonitored” email address, and will snailmail it back to them.

But at least I got a Substack Post out of their duplicity and lunacy.

In case you're wondering, I was notifying AARP of a death. I don't need reminders from those bloodsuckers. When the dearly and sadly departed was alive, I figured getting and then throwing AARP's mail in the recycle bin was doing my small part to help the United States Postal Service. But now, “It's On”, whoever AARP's crap is addressed to.