Today
One dvd from netflix ( march of the penquins )
One Promotional letter from the nearby honda dealer offering me a $500 discount should I buy this weekend .
Another advertizing letter from a insurance company offering me a life insurance ( with no medical exam how about that ) that is 10 times the amount I pay now for coverage .
A letter from my bank telling my C/C card i didnt ask for is ready to be sent out to me at only 10.99% interest .
Several mailers about homes being sold in my area .
AND........ a letter from George bush himself (with his name on the envelope ) and sincerly signed .
telling me about the goals and objectives for the nation these include defeating terrrorism , keeping the nations economy growing ,confronting the ever increasing cost of health care ,and looking for alternative means of energy so we wont be so dependant on oil . and ........................WAIT FOR IT .............................
.............................ASKING FOR MONEY ................................................
All these went directly into the round file with the exception of the dvd .
For once no bills included
WHAT A DAY
later i went down town to vote in our local city /school elections and got interviewed with local news station 8 as a * informed voter *name submitted by members of the council ......
how was your day ???
Such a disappointing title... I was expecting to see a picture of fecal matter in a shoebox.
/I can't be the only one sending them
//you didn't make the newscast I watched (
Being spring.... the latest little flyer from Wallyworld... for outdoor BBQ's, lawnmowers and pool equipment.......... I live in an apartment with no balcony... grin
Phone call asking if I would like my gutters cleaned out.
Phone call asking if my furnace needed an overhaul.
A flyer from Rogers Cable with two free tickets to any Baseball game at the Rogers Centre worth around $70 (would have preferred a $70 discount on our monthly bill.)
Another phone call for "Mrs Kim" who has been hounded by various companies for the past 3 years at our telephone number. From the calls it seems Mrs Kim is probably errrm Asian.. and me with my brit/kiwi accent hardly sounds like her... when I tell them the story... they then start to ask if I am interested in what they are selling....
Nothing from George Bush tho.. so a good day really
mrgreen
I know phone calls are not quite mail, but they are all after something.. right?
I got a $100 "gift card" (so labelled) from a large local furniture store, but upon reading the small print, I find it can only be used against a purchase of $1000 or more roll
I voted yesterday and today am delighted to see that the local buffoon was not elected to the school committee. He wanted a 3-year high school and for the high school students to use public transport.... oh and the ONLY public bus that enters our town stops four miles short of the high school roll
Today I am filling holes and painting woodwork. What fun. At least I have a day off work!
I have to set up a triage system on about half the days. I hate shopping so I do a lot of it on the web; the drawback is that the catalogue companies sell the name. This has been a benefit in some cases, but the cost is a lot of unneeded catalogues. I divide the mail into three classes, dump/recycle, further revue, and must answer.
The worst part is that I have almost missed important mail because it has somehow got folded in with the supermarket flyers that I don't use, I only found them when i was tying up the recycle paper.
The supermarket flyers always arrive on Tuesdays where I live, along with ads for DirectTV etc.
This is 'cleverly' timed so that they arrive the day that the garbage is collected. Sometimes I've been home at lunchtime and have pulled the ads out of the mailbox and deposited them in the recycling bin a few yards away.
Credit card ads are all opened, pages with my name and address on are shredded and the rest (plus anything else to hand that would otherwise get recycled) is stuffed back in the postage paid envelopes, then put back in the mail.
A census form from the Canadian government, a copy of a news magazine called 'Macleans' I've stopped subscribing to for some time now but they still keep sending me copies, a letter from another magazine begging me to re-subscribe called 'The Walrus' that I really do like, but guiltily never had the time to read, so I let my subscription go. Another begging letter from The Toronto Humane Society who I gave $100 to once about five years ago and a Mastercard bill. I also got a card to pick up a package from the Post Office which I suspect will be my latest DVD order from Amazon UK, possibly a comedy series called 'The Green Wing'.
A census form from the Canadian government, a copy of a news magazine called 'Macleans' I've stopped subscribing to for some time now but they still keep sending me copies, a letter from another magazine begging me to re-subscribe called 'The Walrus' that I really do like, but guiltily never had the time to read, so I let my subscription go. Another begging letter from The Toronto Human Society who I gave $100 to once about five years ago and a Mastercard bill.
BTW Lee, you can complete the census form on line this time. Also I enjoy my copy of Macleans.
My mail? being in a condominium we don't see any junk mail or flyers. Get little in the way of regular mail except for credit card bills and monthly statements.
Nothing today.
Keith, how does living in a condo protect you from junk mail and flyers, the post office here must deliver to the person/address ?
Maybe the flyers are posted by non-mail workers...
Maybe the junk mail is weeded out by the posh doorman. grin
Keith, how does living in a condo protect you from junk mail and flyers, the post office here must deliver to the person/address :?:
Correct ,but we don't get the unaddressed junk ( flyers etc) that often used to come in our house mail.
I have also stopped delivery of all statements except for one MC credit card. I have all my other services such as phone etc paid direct/automatically when its due. They notify me by email. That way I don't forget ( something us old farts are guilty of).
[quote="VegasRudeBoy @ Wed 03 May, 2006"
//you didn't make the newscast I watched ([/quote]
It was only on the local news channel .
3 movies from netflix, one of which was completely broked. Averages out at about two per month. Bastard post. some junk mail to "our friends at.." or "Our neibours at" A Have you seen me thing. Nope, sorry, if you weren't jogging with an ipod you're not from around here. Nothing from George W, that would have been hysterical. One can only hope..
A bundle of flyers for local stores, kindly put together in an elastic band. A PG&E bill, the only licensed robbery utility in California, numerous magazines for a therapy business I closed down two years ago, I average, well, three a day, from Big Truck, W, cosmo for all ages to golf, dancing and health stuff, something from the geodesic dome people, a silly postcard from a local pal who went to the local beach last week and as it was her first day out in a long time she sent everyone postcards. lol