This is not junk mail
But it sure looks like it:
This is the envelope Chase used to mail me an Amazon gift certificate I “purchased” with my credit card reward points.
For point of reference, they also sent me a credit card offer today–and made sure to prominently declare IMPORTANT: DO NOT DISCARD on that envelope. These guys still need a clue.
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:17 am
Dude. Just found your blog. As a fellow NU alum and general lover of all those who swear like sailors, I’m loving reading through your old entries.
Quickly - one of the responses you got to your posting about the NU prof with her panties in a bunch was from someone who claimed to be in Medill, yet listed his or her name as “unanimous”. I was going to give him or her the benefit of the doubt and assume that “anonymous” was not the intention, but then I read the rest of the post.
Man, if these folks are the future of journalism, we’re screwed. Maybe we’re screwed already.
And in response to your comments about Firefox - man, get a Mac. Trust me. I’m a recent convert - SO worth it.
Love your blog. Thanks.
PS: Fuck tea. Scotch cures all.
March 2nd, 2007 at 9:13 am
HAH - so the mail that is supposed to go through does not, and the mail that you don’t want is opened. Concert and sports tickets come in the plainest envelopes too.
Interestingly this morning I just wrote something about new “inserts” into junk mail - http://www.thehotiron.com/index.php/site/nickels_dont_shred_well/ - unfortunately, these people just don’t get it.
mp/m
March 2nd, 2007 at 9:43 am
I’ve got a Chase rewards card, too, from which I have not yet claimed any rewards. So thanks for the heads up.
I do give Chase some credit because they were the first to alert me to the credit card junk mail opt-out. So I have gotten zero pre-approved applications for about a year. Until recently. Chase themselves just started sending me extra credit card applications, which, in the enclosed letter, say something to the extent of, “if you’d like to not receive these applications, please call 1-888-5-opt-out.”
March 3rd, 2007 at 3:22 am
I’m almost certain that I threw out a card or two recently, because I didn’t realize they’d started mailing them like this. I had already figured out that “do not discard” meant “discard immediately”, though
March 3rd, 2007 at 3:55 am
Bank of America did the same sort of thing to me, sending me a $50 “cash” (check in the mail) checking account opening bonus. And they did that in an envelope looking like “printed spam” (direct mail), again coming from that same obscure address in Fenton, MO.
Maybe they were hoping I’d throw it away and not cash it.
If you Google Map it, Fenton is really “the bumfuck’s bumfuck” in Missouri.
March 3rd, 2007 at 4:08 pm
My chase rewards card automatically credits my account the cashback each month (3% gas, 1% everything else). No “award” cards to redeem from the mail. Are we talking about the same card here? Or is this simply “another” option of how to redeem the rewards? In any case, I’m sure the credit card companies do indeed send these rewards out to look like junk mail. Discover card certainly did. You toss it out, your problem.