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20080317 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:

Attn: Paypal

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!


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Comments:

Well, I figured if you put it in there, you wanted it! Who was I to deny its existence?

Posted by Erica on March 18, 2008 at 11:08 PM PDT #

Just a friendly tease, Erica. Tell Kris I love the book!

Posted by Kevin on March 18, 2008 at 11:14 PM PDT #

Oh, I knew it was friendly. Also I have gorgeous handwriting! ;)

Posted by Erica on March 18, 2008 at 11:29 PM PDT #

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