Musings from the Mail Bag
Jan 2nd, 2008 by Alex
Amidst the Pennysaver and the usual junk mail, a few musings inspired by the contents of the mail bag this week.
From the Office of the President at my alma mater. “I hope you are enjoying the attractive address labels I sent you a few weeks ago.” Oh you know I’m enjoying them. Sticking them all over my body, day and night. When I run out of room I’m going to have to start sticking them on my coworkers. Wait, were those supposed to be an incentive to donate?
The circulation department at Playboy knows where I live. It took them a few years to find me, but they did. I haven’t subscribed to the magazine since 2001 and have resided in several places in numerous states in the meantime. I don’t know how they do it, since I never registered a forwarding address for any of my mail at any of my addresses. They must have an inside guy at the voting registration office, same as the people at Gillette (who send most men a new razor when they turn 18). I guess it is their business to know where every male on the planet resides, but it is impressive nevertheless.
Haha, very funny.
Have you checked into https://www.optoutprescreen.com ? I did it a few years ago and I no longer get any credit card offers or other such mail. With the excemption of RIT and pre-registered organizations.
DJ: I only get 1-2 credit card things every week. All the other offers I get are associated with my mortgage (which is public information and I don’t think subject to the opt-out stuff). I considered the site you mention but was a bit wary of punching all of that stuff in.