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<p>[QUOTE="Bacchus, post: 61148, member: 759"]Quite a few years ago I read of a case where somebody was putting advertising postcards on people’s windshields in a parking lot. The postcards were metered so the recipient could fill in their name and address and mail them to the advertiser to get additional information on whatever the advertised product was.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some folks, miffed at having this unsolicited “junk” mail stuck under their windshield wipers, naturally mailed them back blank. The advertiser was incensed, and threatened to take legal action against anyone who mailed them back blank. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was thinking that the appropriate response, then, was to fill in fictitious names and addresses and mail them back. That would meet the advertiser’s “requirement” that they not be mailed back blank, and would also waste even more of the advertiser’s time and resources trying to run down false leads.</p><p><br /></p><p>Moral: don’t put your trash on my windshield ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bacchus, post: 61148, member: 759"]Quite a few years ago I read of a case where somebody was putting advertising postcards on people’s windshields in a parking lot. The postcards were metered so the recipient could fill in their name and address and mail them to the advertiser to get additional information on whatever the advertised product was. Some folks, miffed at having this unsolicited “junk” mail stuck under their windshield wipers, naturally mailed them back blank. The advertiser was incensed, and threatened to take legal action against anyone who mailed them back blank. I was thinking that the appropriate response, then, was to fill in fictitious names and addresses and mail them back. That would meet the advertiser’s “requirement” that they not be mailed back blank, and would also waste even more of the advertiser’s time and resources trying to run down false leads. Moral: don’t put your trash on my windshield ![/QUOTE]
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