> There's always something else.  I'd rather dig ditches or take in
> laundry
> than be a telemarketing drone.  No, thanks.

>that's YOUR choice -- but these days you have to be able to run a backhoe
to dig ditches, and very, very few do other folks laundry.
>Neodata, a third party fullfillment house (when you send your magazine
subscriptions to Boulder, that's Neodata) is a HUGE employer in that area.
In
>these days, employment is a Good Thing (or do you really want to treble the
number of fast food restaurants?). Besides, sending business reply
>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.

>Key difference: the business reply envelope is part of a paper marketing
system, which is separate from a telemarketing system.
>Some people find junk mail a zit on the face of existence, but it's not the
same as the boil that is telemarketing.

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. 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.


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