What’s In Your Shredder?
Dear Capital One,
Thank you for giving my shredder such a wonderful workout. I have now idea how I would quite so regularly verify that it’s still working if I didn’t get your asinine offers for credit cards four or five times a week.
I don’t know if it’s the 0% success rate you’ve had with me over the years or just a deep seated loathing for the environment and local mail carriers everywhere, but whatever it is that keeps you going must be amazing stuff. If you could bottle that, perhaps you could just sell that instead of trying to get our nation deeper than it already is in to silly consumer debt.
In closing, I’d like you to know that I do and always will hold you in the highest regard. Except in this case, by “highest regard” I actually mean “the exact same regard in which I hold AOL and their CD’s.” And I can’t freaking stand those AOL CD’s.
Spitefully yours,
Corey
February 23rd, 2006 at 10:08 am
right on, brother.
February 24th, 2006 at 6:11 pm
Hear, hear!
February 28th, 2006 at 4:36 am
Corey -
Here’s a neat trick a guy at work told me about. When you get mail like this, open it up. Take the offer form and write “Remove me from your list” on it. Stuff everything that came with this letter (even the opened envelope) into the prepaid return envelope. You want it to be as heavy as possible. Seal the return envelope and drop it in the mail.
You’ve done two things - A) told them to remove you from their list and B) mailed a letter that is likely over the prepaid weight and will cause them to be charged a penalty by the USPS.
This guy at work claims after you send about two of these back to any company you will never hear from them again…
Hit them in the wallet and they just might listen…