I have had it. Done. Fini. Completely over it.

We have a PO Box at the post office, but we also have a mail box that comes to our office building. I prefer to use the PO Box and rarely give out our physical address as a mailing address. This means I check the mail box to our physical address about once a week. Each time I check it, here’s a portion of what I find:

Five letters from Comcast addressed to a previous occupant named Jeff. I get his mail because it says “Or Current Occupant”. That makes me feel real special. I happen to catch the mailman delivering our mail and ask him to take the letter back. He says he’s not allowed. “Or Current Occupant” means I get it whether I want it or not. Great Comcast, I’m pissed because you are cutting down needless trees for something I never asked for in the first place and now I find out I am forced into being second best? I feel a little like I am back in 3rd grade trying to set up play dates. First I’ll play with Dana, if she’s not home, then Becca, and I suppose if she’s not home, I’ll make due with Sarah. Well Comcast, I’m not interested in you making due with me. Please stop the madness.

Six letters from Qwest. Let me first just preface this with I called (about 3 months ago) and canceled all Qwest solicitations. Oddly enough, when I called, the Qwest sales person was floored. He acted as though I was passing up on the winning lottery ticket. He said that in all his time at Qwest he’s never met someone who doesn’t want to learn about special deals that will reduce my monthly bill by almost a third. I told him I was kind of a special deal myself and I didn’t need anymore competition.

Looking into this all just a little bit further, it dawned on me why I am still getting mail from Qwest. As it turns out, I was previously receiving mail to:
OsoEco
OSo Eco
O So Eco
Oso-Eco
OSO ECO
and Oh So Eco.

So when I first called I said, “Please remove ALL variations of OsoEco from your mailing list.” And to be honest, I noticed a slight decrease in the mail but it never completely stopped. I didn’t pay too much attention because I remember hearing something about needing to wait 45-60 days to see results. I am now about 90 days post junk mail notification and still getting tremendous amounts of Qwest mail. Here’s where the lightbulb when on. I put my investigative hat on and looked at the name on the 6 letters from Qwest.

O. So Eco

Someone had to physically put a period there. I mean a period doesn’t just show up like that? If it did would I become Katie. Wilson-Hamaker? I mean shoot, if this is where we’re going, then maybe I could become more like Prince and have a name that no one can pronouce like K^%$*. This is all just getting Oso Ridiculous. When Qwest gets a clue, will someone let me know?

Ok, rant over. Besides, Eckart Tolle says that vengeance, anger, and frustration is only my pain-body expressing itself (or is that my ego?)

What do OsoEco’ers say about Junk Mail?

Check out the following sites:
Green Dimes
ProQuo
41 Pounds
I am convinced that these three websites are all under one roof. They all provide easy, one stop shopping for all your junk mail needs.