 I have received this mailer from AT&T at least 10 times.
I know it's from AT&T because it's addressed to me with my last name misspelled in the exact way that they used to misspell my name on my cellular phone bills before I cancelled my account in disgust.
(I tried to fix the misspelling about 6 years ago. Eventually it escalated to a supervisor, where I was told that they couldn't spell my name correctly unless I breached my contract with them.)
Anyway, what blows me away about this mailer (this "creative", as they call it in the spam business) is how incredibly stupid they must think I am:
- The envelope is addressed by machine, but in a font that is supposed to fool me into thinking it's hand-writing, as though from a trusted friend of mine. (You know all those trusted friends who send me physical letters in the mail? One of those.)
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Even though the envelope has no return address (kind of like a ransom note, I guess?) it does have a physical stamp instead of a prepaid code. A personal touch, I guess I'm supposed to think.
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The paper itself is crafted to look like a faded Xerox copy of an AT&T advertisement, like the low production values suggest that it was sent by one of my fellow stupid humans, and not a gigantic digital printing robot.
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The paper is then covered with blue hand-writing, as though annotated by this same incompetent trusted friend who addressed the envelope. The writing has a bunch of commentary on it that adds further emphasis to the already emphatic graphic design of the "original" advertisement.
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My favorite is the phrase "Why wait? I'm calling today!" Who??? Who are you??? Who do you think I think you are??? Why would I be fooled by this? How fucking thick do you think I am?
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They've sent me this thing 10 times. What on earth do they think happened to the other 9 failed attempts at getting my attention? Do they think the USPS is that unreliable? Is it so far out of their heads that maybe I HATE AT&T? Could it be that that's why I cancelled my account?
Anyway, just another example of AT&T's ability to be both evil and incompetent at the same time. Are you getting these too? Or is it just me?
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