The daily volume of regular and e-mail continues months after the 2024 election. I must wonder whether extraordinary production and messaging costs of reaching me are indicative of the political and social causes they strive to promote. Four tote bags and multiple solicitations from one source showing coinage, currency or postage are expected to encourage envelope opening and a return contribution. Are these organizations really successful in extracting token contributions from folks like me by offering small teaser bribes? (Note: the bags are useful, but I surely don’t need four.) Are these causes as careless and profligate in spending whatever funds I might choose to donate? How much of their receipts belong in the category of waste, fraud and abuse? How do I end up being solicited by a multitude and variety of activities that are of no relevance or interest to me? Is this phenomenon likely to be protracted like regular Social Security payments to implied recipients well beyond age 100? Personally, the described practice is a turn-off that leads promptly and directly to the paper-recycling container. If excessive costs of shotgun solicitation are tolerable, I have no interest in perpetuating them. How many failures to respond will it take to prompt my removal from the target contact list? Phil Osifer