NSPCC's latest advertising technique. Am outraged!

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Although tbh I'm not sure if its entirely their fault.
Last week I recieved a letter, addressed to me. When I opened it it started something like

Mrs xxxxx,
Being a new mum can be hard. You should know.......

and it went on.
It then mentioned further down that there was a little booklet titled baby names inside. I had a look and listed names of children in alphabetical order and how they had died through abuse from their parents.

I was so cross that it had been sent to me. Now I'm presuming that somebody like Bounty or Boots will have passed my details on but surely the NSPCC should use some initiative and think thats ending these out to new parents isnt a great idea.
I suffered with horrid anxiety and had terrible thoughts of nasty things happening when I had my dd. I've now learned that this is quite common and I have to say if I'd have recieved something like this then, it would have really tipped me over the edge.

I know the NSPCC need to advertise and find ways to recieve donations and I'm also not doubting that they do fantastic work but this was a bit IMO.
Would I be wrong to write a letter to them or should I be addressing it the companies providing my information?

When my DC's were born I started getting those kind of letters too. They also started sending me ones about children who had been abused who had the same name as my children which I thought was poor too!

I had one of these.

I posted about it at the time.

I will never give money to the NSPCC based solely on this sort of shock advertising.

my sil got one of these letter 4 weeks after she had miscarried.

ds1 gets very upset about nspcc adverts, he wants to send all his money to help the children

There is a company like the junk mail service which stops you getting baby related literature if you then lose the baby after registering for info.

I was so cross I rang them to complain

it was about 8 weeks after dd3 was born

my kdis opened the one designed to look like a party invite

horrible

i shall sit on my hands

We give to the NSPCC monthly through direct debit.

we used to give to them monthly - but then got fed up with the repeated letters asking for MORE money (we already gave £10 - and gave £10 to several other charities too) so we stopped the DD.

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It must be pampers or someone like that because I also got one about the time DD was born.

I can't believe they're still sending this out! There was a thread a while back about it - a lot of people are upset by them.
I suppose the NSPCC reckon that as long as it 'raises awareness' nothing is too nasty. Self-righteous wankers.

I got that one too just after dd was born. I sent it back in a fit of angry post natal hormones.

We stopped our monthly DD to the NSPCC when they ran that poster campaign with happy happy parents and babies and the slogan was along the lines of "2 hours later she killed her baby". There was nothing on there to say 'ring this number if you need support as a new parent', which I thought was awful. I do see why they use the shock tactics, but fgs, new parents who are on the edge need support, not judging.

Im appalled by this: I've never received anything like this, thank god

when i got my bounty pack in hospital i refused to give my address, but the woman insisted that they needed it but that they do not pass it on to advertisers. so i complied and gave her an old address.

every so often a particularly diligent postie puts 2 and 2 together and brings us piles of baby junk mail from our old flat...

i've complained to the hospital but i'd have to say that their attitude was along the lines of 'well, we couldn't give a shit'. HATE bounty. plus all the stuff inside was cack.

I understand that they are trying to portray the realitys of abuse but I think that goes to far. Its especially harsh fore a new mommy.

i got one too, about a week after DD was born, which made me sob and sob

and i donate monthly to the NSPCC every month, and have done for years.

shock tactics....well, they seem to turn more people off, and there must be some way to check their database, so they are not mailing current donators..it is a waste of resources.

Gosh!
I thought it was just me. Obviously not.

Thanks for the link YL.
It would be hard to figure out where they got my details from, unless I called and asked them. I can only presume that it would be the likes of Bounty, Pampers or Boots baby club.
I think they should have some sort of responsibilty to make decisions as to who gets our details.

Here's the Baby Mailing Preference Service , but not sure it would have stopped this one.