Living it up in the Nation's Capital
And the nominees for induction into the Bad Actors Guild are….
Kevin Costner for his role in Water World.
Keanu Reeves for his role in….um..every movie.
Ben Affleck for his role in Gigli.
Any other nominees? Give me some suggestions. We have award ceremonies for the best in the business, why not for the worst?
Already opted out and still getting junk mail? Is there a pre paid postage label? Cut off your mailing address and restuff all of the enclosed materials into the envelope and send it back. 🙂
My philosophy is as simple as that. I don’t enjoy getting junk mail, though I do like my shredder, I will resist and return the junk mail at the senders expense.
I believe that if enough people do this, companies will either no longer provide postage paid return envelopes which in turn may decrease sales, or simply refer recipients to a website to get the offer and no longer accept replies via mail, or totally rely on email and no longer send via the postal service which would help the environment. We have spam filters for email which in my case work very well, but postal workers by law cannot discard any mail addressed correctly and are not able to provide spam protection for postal mail.
If you are on facebook, you can search for the group I created. Let’s combat the junk mail!
P.S. – I have not tried it yet, but it would be cool to ship back at the senders expense a box of rocks 🙂 Simply tape the return envelope on the box. Be sure to remove your name as I am sure they will be upset.
After a day of bad customer service, we decided to check out a few more this time in Maryland. Rockville Pike seems to be lined with strip malls. On the way to Marlo to see if the bed we want was there as a floor model, we stopped at Room Store and Basset Direct. We skipped the Ethan Allen, Haverty’s and another expensive looking furniture stores. After getting run out of Basset for saying that $2000 was too much to pay for a sleigh bed, we wanted to order the Ashley Rowley Creek Rustic Poster Bed from Marlo as they are an Ashley dealer. They were not able to order it for us, but they did send us to International Furniture Liquidators as they know they carry the Millennium line which we were looking at. After a hour of hunting for the sign we saw on the way over to Marlo by the road which had apparently been removed, we located the store. It looked like a warehouse when we entered, not so impressive with aisles of boxes and assembled display models. We then entered the showroom! WOW, it was 3 times or more the size of Marlo! I almost got lost and we did not even look at everything, but we did see the bed we wanted! YEAH! Unfortunately the only had the floor model and it was a damaged King, but they were able to order us the Queen, so three weeks from now, we should have it 🙂
So…looking for furniture, head to IFL in Rockville in the plaza with the Giant, Target, Old Navy, and Hudson Trail Outfitters. It was an amazing collection of contemporary and traditional. I saw several shelving units and couches I would like to have if I had room.
A friend at GU had a great idea and I was able to get the following email address. Not sure I will use it as it does not have POP or IMAP access and forwarding costs money from Mail.com.
firstname.lastname@myself.com
Gmail would have been the best and email.com as a backup, but they are both taken 🙁