Monday March 17, 2008
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Monday March 17, 2008 | Junk Mail Irony | Life |
There was a time when I tried to track where my junk mail was coming from. Whenever I filled out my address, especially online, I would put a TAG into the second address field that identifies who I gave this address to. Example:
Kevin Chu
Street Address
Attn: Paypal
City, State ZIP
It never worked.
Not once have I ever received any kind of mail, junk or otherwise, that had my TAG in it. Even when I receive regular mail from places I know have tagged the TAG isn't there. Perhaps the computers filter it out; I really don't know.
Then today, I received an order I had placed online and had paid with Paypal. The merchant used my Paypal address for shipping. Lo and behold, there it was:
It was hand-written!
After hundreds of automated systems had ignored or filtered that tag, some diligent human copied it by hand.
Technology! Its catching on!
Tags: junk mail spam
March 17, 2008 06:49 PM PDT Permalink | Comments [3] |
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