The Mother of All Wasteful Credit Card Offers - With Pics
March 1, 2008 – 6:28 pm | by jaygaulardcom
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Just in case you haven’t seen it on the news or read it on countless blogs, there is a little problem out there with waste. We are wasting everything we can get our hands on, which, in turn, depletes the earth’s natural resources and fills up landfills. If I thought hard enough, I could probably go down the whole chain of events for you, but I am sure you can figure that out yourself.
Now, I realize we have all gotten stupid credit card offers in the mail. I am pretty sure about 1% of us actually asked for them. If you are anything like me, you feel guilty every time you either shred the offer or just toss the paper in the recycling bin. You do recycle, don’t you? Well, today, I received the mother of all waste…a credit card offer from Capital One WITH BUBBLE WRAP IN THE ENVELOPE!!! Yes, you read correctly. Today, I received a credit card off from Capital One that had bubble wrap in the envelope. For what reason? I have no idea. Maybe to protect the paper. You know what? Just look at the photos so you can see how ridiculous this has gotten…
Is it me? I have seen all kinds of scummy ways these companies try to trick us into thinking these wastes of paper are important. They use manila envelopes, clear envelopes, all different sizes of envelopes, envelopes that scream curse words at you and smack you in the face…but BUBBLE WRAP???
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2 Responses to “The Mother of All Wasteful Credit Card Offers - With Pics”
By Hannigan on Mar 2, 2008 | Reply
HA! I haven’t gotten the bubble wrap ones yet but I am sick and tired of Capitol One. I literally get a letter from them every week. Now my girlfriend is starting to get one from them too so its pretty redundant. I love the ones with magnets, fake credit cards, stickers, etc etc. The one I love the most is where its in a big envelope with a tear off tab to find a regular envelope inside of it! They make it look like a package from FedEx so you open it, has scan bars on it and everything. What a waste, but at least I have tons of shredded paper to give to my local packing and shipping place, they reuse it as packing material which is cool.
By jaygaulardcom on Mar 2, 2008 | Reply
Yeah, I know which ones you are talking about…the full size envelope. I would like to find these losers who are responsible for mailing these things out. I’m sure it’s only one or two people. I bet it’s a typical little meeting room where they talk about the next crappy wasteful idea. When I do find them, I would like to backwards bitch-slap them.