With the way some mailers are piling on the freemiums and premiums, you’d think donors have gone all greedy on us.

By Kimberly Seville

Note to self …
Five organizations sent me notepads — one of them personalized, most of them uninteresting. The one from Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., has chipboard backing and the most pages (24 sheets). The sheets all are branded with the PPMW logo and address, made to look like a prescription pad, but with “This is not an actual prescription pad” printed in tiny type at the bottom. The interesting thing about this package is that unlike every other notepad I received, there is not one mention of the notepad in the letter. It’s just there, looking like a prescription pad. Make of it what you will.