Monday, August 30, 2004
 
Mail Call

  • Another Monday, another 5 unsolicited credit card offers, including 3 separate campaigns from Citibank. Gentlemen, it is my distinct pleasure to return your business reply envelopes with the terms of your offer, but not application. I consider it my small part to keep first class postal rates down and to raise your cost per customer acquisition for these campaigns.

  • A plea for money from George Bush. Look, George, I've given money, we're probably going to give up time and lawnspace for the campaign, but if you want more cash, you're going to have to send a picture of your daughters.

    For this gambit to be effective, make sure that's addressed to Mr. Brian and not Mrs. Heather (or, as she might be again known shortly after reading this post, Miss HLI, in which case I won't have any money to give anyway).

  • An offer for AOL 9.0 Optimized, which proclaims right on the box, Block Spam and Web Pop-Ups. As someone who's logged into AOL 9.0 on a dial-up recently, I certainly notice the oversight that new customers won't: Web Pop-Ups doesn't say a damn thing about the six or ten AOL offers that display whenever you try to log in or log out. Those? Still in there.

    An overly expensive dial-up ISP that delivers its own ads to enhance my (slow) browsing experience? Throwing this out unopened is too good for this small box.

- posted by Brian J. @ 2:29 PM
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