Example, Mr. and Mrs. John Smith

I hate this for the obvious reasons but it’s especially annoying to me because my wife didn’t take my surname!

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Even if there is no one, they assume you’re married.

    I remember having one sent to me in high school. It was weird. It’s just name scrappers getting every name they can.

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      6 days ago

      I’ve had this a lot. I’m almost 40, live alone, and never married, but I often get stuff addressed to “Mr and Mrs solarmonkey”… as a bonus, since my dad’s generation there have been zero new men with that last name (only girls from my dad and his brothers).

      I love getting junk mail addressed to my mortgage co-signer, though. He has never lived here. Sometimes they address me with his last name, which is pretty funny (it’s my step-dad, and my mom died years ago, so we really don’t have much of a relationship at this point, and definitely don’t share a last name).

      I like throwing that stuff directly in the recycling. If you don’t even know who I am that makes my job really easy.