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Right now, I loathe the ACLU.
I hate getting mail to my parents, but I understand why I do: I had the mail forwarded, after all, to catch important mail after they died. The fact is it's all unimportant mail now, but I still understand how they got this address.
I do NOT understand how the ACLU got my phone number tied to Dad's name, however. After I got a telemarketing call from some agency they'd set on us (on him), I pitched a bit of a fit and was told they got the number from the ACLU. I called the ACLU and left a message explaining the circumstance, stating that my father was now deceased and had never lived at this phone number, and that I wanted to know how they got MY phone number tied to my Dad's name, as well as for them to remove it and update anyone they could that they'd given it to.
I got a call back, where they left a message (we've been playing phone tag), that the account was now inactivated, and as to how they got the number, it was on the account which was opened in 1989 so it must just be outdated info.
I called back and left another message, thanking them for inactivating the account, using the phrase "horse pucky" to describe their explanation (which is the KINDEST thing I could have said about it), and reiterated the circumstances, that no one in our family lived at this phone number until 2002 (well after the account was opened) and that Mom and Dad never lived at this number nor gave it out as theirs. I never ever had a call for them to this number until after they'd been dead a year and I still want to know how the ACLU got this number tied to that account, and I told them so.
I hate the ACLU, right now, strictly on the basis of the personal stir of emotions and the crap-ass story they gave me. Idiots.
I do NOT understand how the ACLU got my phone number tied to Dad's name, however. After I got a telemarketing call from some agency they'd set on us (on him), I pitched a bit of a fit and was told they got the number from the ACLU. I called the ACLU and left a message explaining the circumstance, stating that my father was now deceased and had never lived at this phone number, and that I wanted to know how they got MY phone number tied to my Dad's name, as well as for them to remove it and update anyone they could that they'd given it to.
I got a call back, where they left a message (we've been playing phone tag), that the account was now inactivated, and as to how they got the number, it was on the account which was opened in 1989 so it must just be outdated info.
I called back and left another message, thanking them for inactivating the account, using the phrase "horse pucky" to describe their explanation (which is the KINDEST thing I could have said about it), and reiterated the circumstances, that no one in our family lived at this phone number until 2002 (well after the account was opened) and that Mom and Dad never lived at this number nor gave it out as theirs. I never ever had a call for them to this number until after they'd been dead a year and I still want to know how the ACLU got this number tied to that account, and I told them so.
I hate the ACLU, right now, strictly on the basis of the personal stir of emotions and the crap-ass story they gave me. Idiots.
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You'd think they'd know better than to do that, considering, especially since the name on that phone number is neither of the names on their accounts. At any rate, I'm still demanding a further explanation from them. I suspect they don't keep enough notes to know where they got it (it wouldn't be in their best interest to do so, would it?) but they are not going to claim it's been on there since 1989.
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