Fifty Plus (50+) - Where's my AARP stuff?

As I turned 50 last January, I have been awaiting "the Letter" I have been hearing about for the past two years or so. It's the letter inviting me to join the AARP. So, where is it? I was under the impression it just sort of showed up automatically, shortly after one's 50th birthday. Was I mistaken?

Come to think of it, I haven't received it either. Maybe we need to apply for it.

Mine have been coming since March or April. My 50th was in June. I'll gladly forward some...

Consider yourself lucky:) You're one of the few they haven't been able to flood with mail.

As 50 is the new 30, it will be another 20 years!

My house will be very warm this winter from burning all the stuff they have sent me:D

I'm at a very confused time in my life. I subscribe to only two magazines. AARP and RollingStone. And Paul McCartney was on the cover of both! :eek:

As I turned 50 last January, I have been awaiting "the Letter" I have been hearing about for the past two years or so. It's the letter inviting me to join the AARP. So, where is it? I was under the impression it just sort of showed up automatically, shortly after one's 50th birthday. Was I mistaken?

mine showed up shortly before 50th. they come without solicitation.

unless you've been successfully keeping your name off all data-bases everywhere.

Give me the particulars. I can make sure you get on the mailing list I work for them.

At the ripe old age of 53, I've never gotten a single mailing from AARP.

I used to get lots of credit card applications in the mail that came with postpaid reply envelopes. I stuffed everthing they sent to me into the reply envelopes and wrote across the applications, "Please stop writing to me." Then I mailed everything they sent to me back to them and let them pay for the postage. Eventually, they stopped sending me junk.

Just post your mailing address here and I'll send you my excess. :D

I been a member for 16 years, I have there insurance and it's one of the better deals that I got. Plus I use there card at all the motels, but I know there are other ones, but it works for me.

mine showed up shortly before 50th. they come without solicitation.

unless you've been successfully keeping your name off all data-bases everywhere.
It works for me. Turned fifty in march no sign of them. whew....

I have been getting their junk mail since I was 40. PM me with an address and fedex # and I will be happy to send their junk to you.

So far I have managed to fly under their radar. My sister tells me that joining AARP was one of the best things she has done.

I'm still in the denial phase...nope, nope, I can't be old enough for AARP. Uh uh..

I am assuming they can't find me here in Costa Rica. Our address is 3 kilometers south of the bull ring - and the bull ring was torn down this year.

It is so rare for us to get mail here that when it arrives, it arrives via a person on a motorcycle who hand delivers it.

I joined as soon as I turned 50 and really don't see any benefit. A glossy magazine and endless solicitations to purchase insurance.

I don't think a day goes by I don't get something from them... maybe your mailman is hoarding it all!

Maybe it comes, and you forget it came.

They are waiting for you 24 hours a day at:

http://www.aarp.org/

You can listen to an interview with Merv Griffin.

Maybe someone from this 50+ forum would like to enter their "The faces of 50+" contest:
http://www.aarpmagazine.org/modelsearch/

I think DG, with his Sean Connery looks, should go for it.

Maybe it comes, and you forget it came.

OK, that made me giggle, not too much, though, didn't want to mess my Depends.

I'll be 65 in September, and haven't received any mail from them to my knowledge. My wife, on the other hand, at age 58 has been a member since age 50. She says I'm automatically a member since I'm her spouse. Huh? That makes no sense at all. Oh well...

At 62 I believe I still get a few pieces of their mail every year. Don't even open. I was surprised last week when I got a piece of spam e-mail from AARP to join. Wasn't sure how they got my e-mail address, but suspect they bought a list of 50+ e-mail addresses. Maybe they are trolling this forum? Don't seem to have any trouble getting the same discounts that AARP claims. Must be my good looks.

I'll be 65 in September, and haven't received any mail from them to my knowledge. My wife, on the other hand, at age 58 has been a member since age 50. She says I'm automatically a member since I'm her spouse. Huh? That makes no sense at all. Oh well...

Yes, I am automatically a member because of my spouse. I get all the discounts without the AARP card.

https://mss.aarp.org/servlet/wppdispatcher?keycode=U5HAC3&packageid=&componentid=&whocalled=promo_enroll
That will take you right to the "Join AARP" page.

I think DG, with his Sean Connery looks, should go for it.

Nah, it says no professionals. :D

Nah, it says no professionals. :D


So do you get paid if you are one of the lucky chosen ones? Or is it just a way for AARP to get free models..??

:p

I turned 50 1 month ago and I have already received 2 mailing from AARP. I immediately ripped in half and threw in the recycle. Bah ! I am not that old yet. Maybe 50, but still 35???? I can only dream.......

I guess I should explain something: I want the discounts! What kind of discounts can I expect? Much as I enjoy going into Best Buy and being totally left alone by the blue shirts, (But I love the way they swarm all over young couples with kiddies!) I'd still like a discount here and there.

I guess I should explain something: I want the discounts! What kind of discounts can I expect? Much as I enjoy going into Best Buy and being totally left alone by the blue shirts, (But I love the way they swarm all over young couples with kiddies!) I'd still like a discount here and there.


You get a discount at most national motel and car rental companies. It is about the same as discounts offered through AAA and fraternal organizations. Their car insurance (The Hartford) offers the deep discount to switch to them and then goes back up the second year to about where it was before you switched. Overall, you save some as opposed to keeping your current insurance, depending on your situation and driving record. For me, it was a good switch. They also offer health insurance which looks like a good choice but was not as good as my own insurance from my former employer which I was able to carry over after retirement. I will take another look at their Medicare supplement insurance when I reach that age.

As I turned 50 last January, I have been awaiting "the Letter" I have been hearing about for the past two years or so. It's the letter inviting me to join the AARP. So, where is it? I was under the impression it just sort of showed up automatically, shortly after one's 50th birthday. Was I mistaken?


At 48 Ive started getting them telling me Im eligible for
some of the 'benefits'.
I guess I shouldnt be posting that here yet, though....
Sorry.....off to the fixie forum for me !!!!
:D

I used to belong to AARP but gave it up when they supported the Bush prescription med plan just in time for the last Presidential election. They don't represent my interests and I don't need them. Wrote them a letter telling them why I quit and then called them to register my opinion, but to this day they keep sending me their mailings. Just wasting their money.

AARP may think you have passed. Contact them over the net and let them know that your passing was a rumor started by your ex.

Is there no way a person can read a fourm thread without seeing the name of the so called leader of our country.


"A man whose name I dare not speak."

Oscar Wilde or sort of

I used to belong to AARP but gave it up when they supported the Bush prescription med plan just in time for the last Presidential election. They don't represent my interests and I don't need them. Wrote them a letter telling them why I quit and then called them to register my opinion, but to this day they keep sending me their mailings. Just wasting their money.

This is the way I feel about AAA. I'd love to buy their roadside assistance, but I don't want them to count me in when they say "the umpty million members of AAA support the building of umpty thousands of miles of new roads, blah blah blah..."

I don't support their agenda, so they don't get my money, even if that means I change my own flat tires instead of waiting 3 hours for AAA to show up.

(sorry for the hijacky rant)

At 48 Ive started getting them telling me Im eligible for
some of the 'benefits'.
I guess I shouldnt be posting that here yet, though....
Sorry.....off to the fixie forum for me !!!!
:D

Hey, I ride a fixie. I hardly ever post at the fixie forum though. Too much,,,, "youthful energy". Can't understand why they're all so agitated. What's the stuff they all drink, something called Red Bull? That must be it.

bruce19, thanks for the heads up. Weren't a lot of AARP's members angry with them for that?