ddrboy's Diaryland Diary
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Postal
Do this!
I suppose some degree of commerce would grind to a halt if telephone solicitors weren't able to call people at home during the dinner hour.Steve Rubenstein, a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle has proposed
"Three Little Words" based on his brief experience in a telemarketing operation that would stop the nuisance for all time. The three little words are "Hold on, please." Saying this while putting down your phone and walking off instead of hanging up immediately would make each telemarketing call so time consuming, those boiler rooms would grind to a halt. When you eventually hear the phone company's beep beep beep tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which
has efficiently completed its task.
When you get ads in your phone or utility bill, include them with the payment. Let THEM throw the stuff away. Think globally; act locally.
When you get those pre-approved letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and junk like that, most of them come with postage paid return envelopes, right? Well, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little envelopes!
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express, or a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their application back! Just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them. You can send it back empty if you want, just to keep 'em guessing! Eventually, the banks and credit card companies would begin getting all their junk back in the mail. Let's let them know what it's like to get junk mail, and best of all...THEY'RE paying for it! Twice! Let's support our postal service. They say e-mail is cutting into their business and that's why they need to keep increasing postage. We can help!
1:02 p.m. - Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2002
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