JerseyNana’s Daily Rant

Yesterday I ranted about junk mail and I promise to try to do a daily rant to just get lots of things that are bugging both me and my friends of our community chest.

As I said yesterday about junk mail, it is like a disease. It never seems to stop growing and seems to have no real cure. Oh yes, I have tried to eliminate this. I even joined a website that guaranteed to eliminate this mess, and yes, it worked. It worked so well that I even stopped getting the local supermarket coupons that I depended on so much.

Did you know that some supermarket circulars that arrive in the mail are different than the ones that they have at the entrance of the market itself? There were coupons on the mail version that did not appear in the market version. I shop with my sister who lives around the corner from me and she was getting savings that I could only dream about. It took quite a bit of hunting and doing on my part to get these services back. Even the guys who throw the free newspapers and circulars on our lawn stopped visiting us.

So now although I prefer to order gifts for the grandkids online, I place the order and then make a call to the customer service people to ask them nicely to not send me ANY of their catalogs. I explain that I am a grandparent and most likely the items they sell are not directed at me and my ilk.

In response to your comments:

Delicia, I love both you and Mike and am not looking to put anyone out of work, just lighten their load!

Sandy, unfortunately, PCH is still around and my hubby expected to win and kept the postal service in business for many years mailing back all their replies. They have me listed as both Mrs. Diane and Mrs. Carmen (my hubby's first name) and although his name is both male and female, many other residual mailings come to Ms. Carmen, Mr. Carmen and just Carmen. So if they forgot you (lucky you), they even invented extra people to annoy who do not even exist.

Don, I do not have the physical strength to institute a lawsuit, but if you start a class action, count me in!

Malina, will look into Zumbox. Thanks for the info and if luck prevails, it will not start another rant. LOL

Abby, thanks for the info that everyone already has our name, address and phone number, but I still prefer to wipe our identity from my trash. It is a scary thought for sure! Having been a victim of identity theft before, I still feel better not giving anyone anything else to steal.