Maybe “darker side” is too harsh. Still, it’s kind of ridiculous that my junk mail has at LEAST doubled since I donated to charity. I guess once they find people willing to donate they really want to see if they’ll give more :/
Posts Tagged ‘mail’
Before I left for our trip to Japan I went online to the Post Office website to have my mail held while I was away. I know I don’t get a lot of mail, but since we were going to be gone two weeks I thought I’d play it safe. I checked the box saying that I’d pick up the mail at the post office. When I left to pick it up I stupidly didn’t check my mailbox and went to the post office.
When I get there the woman at the counter gives me a handful of envelopes. I was surprised, because I figured I’d at least have some FiOS and Triple Play junk mail offers. Then I realized it was mail for various different people in my building. I go back to the counter and she tells me that’s all they have in the held mail bin and that the mail carrier has probably already delivered my mail. I didn’t check the “deliver mail” option for when the hold mail period ended because that would functionally mean not holding my mail!
Seriously though, shouldn’t this person get in trouble for giving me the mail of a number of other people who aren’t me?
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Maybe it’s about time I make some effort to stop receiving the mail of the previous tenants in my apartment. If I stopped receiving their mail and offers for FiOS or Optimum’s Triple play (right now I have only internet, not phone or TV) then I’d have to check my mail maybe once every three months instead of once a month.
No I didn’t actually decide to check my mail once a month, but it feels like that sometimes.
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I should’ve known by now that the only unmarked envelopes I ever get are when I get my new credit card after it’s expired. It’s like Verizon thinks that they have to trick me into opening their junk mail and if I make it that much further I’ll be that much more convinced I want to get FiOS.
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Actually this was my girlfriend’s bill. I guess there’s no program over there that says “If amount equals $0.00 do not send paper bill.”
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No I didn’t open it, but seriously shouldn’t they be wondering why they haven’t got their fidelity investments mail in months? I used Catalogchoice.org to avoid getting their snooty looking high end clothing catalogs but I still get mail that looks like it would have important financial information for them. Isn’t it just standard procedure to have your mail forwarded to your new address?
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In the post office’s defense this was written in Spanish before written again in English in parentheses. Still, it’s kind of like if when you call an automated telephone service and after saying “para español pulse dos” it said “for spanish, press 2.” What about all the other non-English speakers out there?
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I didn’t know about Forever stamps until I told my girlfriend I mailed my hospital bill with two 38 cent stamps because I knew by the time I took the time to get 5 cent stamps (or whatever the hell value I’d need to reach first class) the hospital would have already sent a collection agency after me.
Seriously, this is how often I need to mail something. My bills I pay online and my rent I put in the mailbox in my building. Every time I need to mail something the postage has gone up.
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There’re tons of catalogs underneath the mailboxes of I’m sure every set of mailboxes in the entire country right now.
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