I've contributed through ActBlue in 2006 and 2008 to several campaigns. I want to see my contribution used for ads, for mailers to voters, for pizzas for phone bankers. I don't want to see it used for postage to me.
To those who send me newsletters, mailers, solicitations - you're wasting your time, my time, and both our money. They go into the garbage. Unopened. As I've told those who call, I do all my contributing online. And I don't open the emails from the campaigns, either. Those emails make me less likely, not more likely, to contribute. They make me think "hmm, maybe I shouldn't contribute to any new candidates, because I'll just get more mail and more email."
Are there others out there who feel the same? Take the poll! Candidates and staffers reading DKos, this is something you can do for the community that is trying to support you; fix this problem. I have a suggestion after the jump..
If the poll shows, as I suspect, most who read DailyKos don't want the mail, stop sending it to those who contribute online. Or give us an opt-out so we know that our money isn't being wasted on postage.
Give us an email opt-out as well. I don't open the emails, and don't contribute based on them. I do respond to Kos' nagging, John Cole's nagging, John Aravosis' nagging, and those cute little thermometer widgets.