[Rhodes22-list] Fwd: Great ideas!!! I just had to forward this.

[Steve]

Good one, Rummy.
Steve

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> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 11:32:15 EST
> Subject: Great ideas!!!
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> Great ideas!!!
> 
> THREE LITTLE WORDS.. I suppose some degree of
> commerce would  grind to a halt 
> if telephone solicitors weren't able to call people
> at home during dinner 
> hour. But that doesn't make it any more pleasant. 
> 
> Now Steve Rubenstein, a writer for the San Francisco
> Chronicle, has 
> proposed "Three Little Words" based on his brief
> experience in a 
> telemarketing operation that would stop the nuisance
> for all time.
> 
> The three little words are "Hold On, Please."
> 
> Saying this while putting down your phone and
> walking off instead 
> of hanging up immediately would make each
> telemarketing call so 
> time-consuming that boiler rooms would grind to a
> halt. When you eventually 
> hear the phone company's beep-beep-beep tone, you
> know it's time to go back 
> and hang up your handset, which has efficiently
> completed its task. This 
> might be one of those articles you'll want to e-mail
> to your friends. Three 
> little words that eliminate telephone soliciting.
> 
> GOOD IDEAS:
> 
> When you get ads in your phone or utility bill,
> include them with the payment 
> let the companies throw them away. When you get
> those pre approved letters in 
> the mail for everything from credit cards to 
> 2nd  mortgages and junk like that, most of them come
> with postage paid return 
> envelopes, right?
> 
> Now this is GREAT!! I didn't think of this!!!
> 
> Well, why not get rid of some of your other junk
> mail and put it in these 
> cool little envelopes!
> 
> Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to
> American Express. 
> Send the pizza coupon to Citibank.
> 
> If you didn't get anything else that day then just
> send them their 
> application back! If you want to remain anonymous,
> just make sure 
> your  name isn't on anything you send them. You can
> send it back empty 
> if you want to just to keep them guessing!
> 
> Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will
> begin 
> getting their  junk back in the mail. Let's let them
> know what it's like to 
> get junk mail, and the best of it is that they're
> paying for it! Twice!
> 
> Let's help keep our postal service busy since they
> say e-mail is 
> cutting  into their business, and that's why they
> need to increase postage 
> again!
> 
> Send this to a friend or two or three...or fifty....
> 
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