At 09:16 AM 5/23/2003 -0600, kestrel wrote:

>>envelopes doesn't go to telemarketers, but to data entry people, who are
>>likely not even in the same company, let alone same department...
>
>Increasingly they're not even in the same *country*
>India is picking up enormous volumes of customer service jobs -- if you call
>a customer service number and get someone with an Indian accent, they're
>probably not immigrants, your call has probably been shuttled to India.
>There have been all sorts of news stories about it.

Either that, or they're in jail!  THAT is the really scary one, to me.

>right. I'm not fond of junk mail either, but it doesn't interrupt dinner,
>entertainment or my sleep, and doesn't ask me to sit on hold after it's
>called me. 

Yeah, but it's killing a lot of innocent trees!

>I separate it from my regular mail, and dump it into the trash
>can conveniently placed next tot he mailbox. There's an address you can
>write to that will remove you from a lot of junk mail. I don't have it to
>hand right now, but will post it later.

I used to have that, too, and actually did send our information to it.  Has
to be updated, I guess.  Florida also has a list that they charge $10 for
the first year and $5 for subsequent years, to keep your name off of lists.
 The state needs the revenue!

What irritates me is the credit card offers that come every three weeks or
so from the same banks!  Doesn't it seem reasonable that if they don't get
a nibble after three or four tries, they'd just drop you?  I guess I'll
have to compose some nastygrams and say, "Hey, you stupid folks.  I don't
want your credit card, I will never want your credit card, my answer is no
today and it will be no tomorrow and it will be no ten years from now, so
stop sending me this junk!"

Argh.

We have a shredder for those bits that have names and address and numbers
and all on them, and a recycling bin for hide, fox, and all after.

But I'd be happer not getting this nonsense at all.

Veloci--call me old-fashioned--raptor
 

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