Being a Mean Widdle Kid
Sep. 12th, 2010 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aearwen2My daughter, bless her little pointed head, has come up with a wonderful idea that will both help support the US Post Office financially (at no cost to her) and also take a small swipe at the banks and credit card companies who have caused the huge mess this country - and indeed much of the world - is now suffering through. I'm certain some of us have done something similar at one time or another, but I'd like to think that maybe this little pebble could start an avalance that will finally get the attention of those shysters:
Súl (my daughter) sent to Bank of America an untouched American Express credit card application - in B of A's own postage-paid envelope. That's right - the bank itself is paying the US Post Office to get an application to somebody else's card back. I find that the height of irony, and imminently suited to their behavior - especially considering what my brother in AZ has been through.
So this is just a suggestion: if you folks are as fed up with the way these corporations walk all over us, then make your small move to tell them you've had it. Send in those postage-paid envelopes - either empty or with somebody else's untouched credit application. The US Postal Service will thank you, and the banks...
Well, it's chump change, so they probabely won't feel it a whole lot - until or unless we just keep doing it, instead of actually applying. Face it, with few exceptions, most of us don't need to be buying things on credit; we can and should save up for them and then get them when we can genuinely afford it. It costs less in the long run, and keeps the country solvent.
Pardon me while I go find some applications and do my dirty best. I'm so sick of getting these things in the mail anyway. I know our difficulties with the IRS and CA State Franchise Tax Board started when we applied for too many unsecured credit accounts and then tried to pay them off with cashing in an IRA without withholding enough for taxes. Those unsecured applications are little bits of poison that float into our mailboxes with far too much regularity, easily affecting folks who simply don't think things through. My dear hubby fell for them, and we're still not quite recovered from the "cure".
I'm such a Wicked Widdle Kid... *evil grin*
Súl (my daughter) sent to Bank of America an untouched American Express credit card application - in B of A's own postage-paid envelope. That's right - the bank itself is paying the US Post Office to get an application to somebody else's card back. I find that the height of irony, and imminently suited to their behavior - especially considering what my brother in AZ has been through.
So this is just a suggestion: if you folks are as fed up with the way these corporations walk all over us, then make your small move to tell them you've had it. Send in those postage-paid envelopes - either empty or with somebody else's untouched credit application. The US Postal Service will thank you, and the banks...
Well, it's chump change, so they probabely won't feel it a whole lot - until or unless we just keep doing it, instead of actually applying. Face it, with few exceptions, most of us don't need to be buying things on credit; we can and should save up for them and then get them when we can genuinely afford it. It costs less in the long run, and keeps the country solvent.
Pardon me while I go find some applications and do my dirty best. I'm so sick of getting these things in the mail anyway. I know our difficulties with the IRS and CA State Franchise Tax Board started when we applied for too many unsecured credit accounts and then tried to pay them off with cashing in an IRA without withholding enough for taxes. Those unsecured applications are little bits of poison that float into our mailboxes with far too much regularity, easily affecting folks who simply don't think things through. My dear hubby fell for them, and we're still not quite recovered from the "cure".
I'm such a Wicked Widdle Kid... *evil grin*
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