I’ve donated to a handful of French charities over the years and receive regular emails from them.
What I would really like is for them to stop sending regular letters asking for money - complete waste of paper and I don’t read them. When I lived in the UK there was a way to elect how you wanted charities to communicate with them and to stop them sending paper correspondence.
My question please is whether there’s a way of doing that here?
I am in the same situation. It can be upsetting when you have already given to be constantly asked to give again.
Maybe someone will be able to help both of us. 
I also resent slightly having to go through the various bits of paper that are in the envelope (it’s never just a letter, is it?), to remove any that have my name/address/phone number. Someone I know didn’t do this, some dishonest people went through the dustbin and used his details to apply for credit cards, loans etc.
Signing up to this should slow down general marketing.
But since they have had a legitimate contact with you then to stop the letters continuing you will have to write and tell them directly.
Écrivez directement aux organismes caritatifs dont vous ne souhaitez pas recevoir le courrier et demandez-leur de supprimer votre nom de leurs listes de diffusion . Indiquez aux organismes que vous soutenez si vous souhaitez que votre nom soit supprimé des listes qu’ils louent ou échangent.
That’s very helpful Jane, thank you.
A variant on this theme is if/ when the French charities (who I had donated to) pass your details to other charities. This has happened to me. It got to the stage of those 'secondary ’ charities in turn passing on my details to yet more charities. I got fed up and sent an email to the Data Protection Officers of the first two charities, quoting the relevant GDPR sections, and requested they not only stopped sending me letters but I made it clear I regarded them as being responsible for stopping the secondary and third tier of charities from contacting me again. It fortunately worked, and the flood of letters has stopped.
Thank you Jane.
I haven’t had the problem of other charities receiving my details. I just wish that the ones I have chosen to support would use the money I donate on doing their work and not sending me all sorts of stickers and postcards etc. as well as asking for further donations.
Those £200,000 CEO salaries and fine German automobiles aren’t going to buy themselves.
I suffer the same way but in emails not post, As I am a regular visitor, several times a day, to my spam filter, it is a matter of seconds to get rid.
And of course I suppose your letterbox has a sticker “Pas de pub” on it? Or before anyone thinks you’re saying you’re not a pub, the full version “Pas de publicité” ?
All the crap which used to come into mine stopped instantly after I put the sticker on mine. That was years ago, never seen any since.
“Pas de publicité SVP” on the letter box is not the same as receiving letters adressed to one personally.
I would never have guessed.
Can’t help with past issues but for a long time now I always give my “thrash” email and never my real physical address. Otherwise I’d be bombarded with rubbish. I’m still trying to stop bullshit that comes from those I naively signed up to before I adopted this strategy.
Anybody want an apartment on a golf course in Portugal ? Well if you want them to stop sending such bullshit you need to make a complaint in Portuguese to their GDPR controller.