Oh, come on.

I do not like getting mail for my Mom and Dad from corporations. Junk mail to them is disheartening to me (especially because we are now, for the repeat offenders, at the "call and talk to someone" stage as they are ignoring the "deceased return to sender" notifications).

But the most recent one is actively annoyingly STUPID. Most of these companies are just blindly forwarding people and either not getting or not processing the returns: annoying, but understandable. One of the latest, however, KNOWS they are dead.

The IRS wanted to make sure Dad knew he could file for his stimulus check. Let's see, social security was notified of his death, and the last return for him & mom was filed last year with both marked "deceased". The IRS apparently compiled their lists from all the folks who had filed in 2007. Couldn't they reasonably have removed the ones whose filings indicated they were dead?

Since it's a one-time thing, I'm throwing it out. Hopefully I don't need to say anything to them at all to avoid future mailings, at least. But argh. That's just stupid. Your tax dollars at work, people! Wonder how many mailings went out to dead people whose heirs didn't need the info, and what it cost.