Money for ‘Premiums’ Could Be Better Spent

To the Editor:

I am quite offended by the practice of using premiums to attract donations (“Give a Little, Get a Lot?,” December 11) and by the practice of non-profit organizations’ selling my name to other organizations, which also send out such items.

Each week I am inundated with address labels, cards, calendars, and the like. I hate being wasteful, but I hate receiving this junk mail, and I do not support organizations that send out such materials. My donations are modest, and many times I feel the “premium” costs more than my donation. If that’s true, my money is better spent somewhere else.

Mary Sloan Roby
Baltimore