Comments on: They don`t live here anymore http://weblog.probablynot.com/2007/06/15/they-dont-live-here-anymore/ -emptying my brain onto the internet since 1998... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:12:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: jason http://weblog.probablynot.com/2007/06/15/they-dont-live-here-anymore/#comment-33629 jason Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:42:18 +0000 http://weblog.probablynot.com/2007/06/15/they-dont-live-here-anymore/#comment-33629 I think once I got a coupon in the mail for a discount on a gym membership, but it wasn't anything I couldn't have gotten just by walking in to the gym. 99.9% of the stuff that comes in the mail is rubbish, and the 0.1% that is worthwhile isn't worth dealing with the other crap. I'm not sure what "free newspapers" you are talking about, the only thing I've ever gotten is the "See what you missed this week!" 5 page piece of junk the Atlanta Journal Constitution leaves if you aren't a subscriber. I get more news from the internet in 5 minutes than I would get in that mini-newspaper. Product samples? I haven't gotten a free product sample in the mail in over ten years. As for the Yellow Pages... yeah, a phone book is useful... I would just like them to stop delivering me a full set of three giant books every three months. What a gigantic waste! And I guess I am a very rare person, because I'd rather not have them waste the paper on stuff I'll never use. Call me crazy that way. I think once I got a coupon in the mail for a discount on a gym membership, but it wasn’t anything I couldn’t have gotten just by walking in to the gym. 99.9% of the stuff that comes in the mail is rubbish, and the 0.1% that is worthwhile isn’t worth dealing with the other crap.

I’m not sure what “free newspapers” you are talking about, the only thing I’ve ever gotten is the “See what you missed this week!” 5 page piece of junk the Atlanta Journal Constitution leaves if you aren’t a subscriber. I get more news from the internet in 5 minutes than I would get in that mini-newspaper. Product samples? I haven’t gotten a free product sample in the mail in over ten years. As for the Yellow Pages… yeah, a phone book is useful… I would just like them to stop delivering me a full set of three giant books every three months. What a gigantic waste!

And I guess I am a very rare person, because I’d rather not have them waste the paper on stuff I’ll never use. Call me crazy that way.

]]> By: Chris http://weblog.probablynot.com/2007/06/15/they-dont-live-here-anymore/#comment-33577 Chris Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:32:30 +0000 http://weblog.probablynot.com/2007/06/15/they-dont-live-here-anymore/#comment-33577 Have you never, ever responded to unaddressed mail? Do you not find free newspapers useful, interesting and informative? What about Yellow Pages or Government information? Free product samples? You will be a very rare person indeed if you have never responded to a leaflet promotion and have no interest in the above. Have you never, ever responded to unaddressed mail? Do you not find free newspapers useful, interesting and informative? What about Yellow Pages or Government information? Free product samples?

You will be a very rare person indeed if you have never responded to a leaflet promotion and have no interest in the above.

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