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...first letter I ever wrote was a fan letter. I was six years old. I don't remember what the letter said, but I remember the envelope. It was addressed to "Farrah, Hollywood." My mother yanked it out of the mailbox, explaining the concept of the street address. We lived on what the Post Office called a "rural route"--a dirt road in Oklahoma that had no house numbers. But I still think that letter would have reached its addressee. In 1976 one couldn't avoid knowing who the Farrah in Hollywood was. Charlie's Angels was my favorite television...
...GOODS After one too many "Sorry we missed you" notes from UPS, Tony Paikeday created the zBox. The sturdy plastic mailbox with an electronic lock lets carriers deliver when you're not home. Sign up for the service ($5 a month at zbox.com) and every package you buy online gets a number that the carrier uses to open the box. You access it later with a PIN code. The downside: one less excuse for being late to work...
Then there were the notes slipped under my door. Sometimes I found notes in my mailbox. Sometimes I was given toys with company logos. And everywhere I went on campus, posters promising a wonderful I-banking/consulting life lined the stairwells, covered the entrances to the dining halls and glared at me from every lamppost and tape-able surface imaginable. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but these messages left little room in my mind for misinterpretation: Forget art. I should bank or consult. But I'm stubborn, and so, naively, I ignored the signs thinking that new ones would inevitably...
...first learns of cases from local social service organizations with which they have cultivated a relationship, particularly Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD). ABCD social workers provide their clients with applications, who send them to HOP's mailbox in Phillips Brooks House...
Judging from the cascade of credit-card offers in your mailbox, you would think there is plenty of competition in the industry. Banks have been leaping over one another to grab more of what industry types call "wallet share"--a bigger chunk of the 80% of U.S. households that already carry plastic. So banks pick fights with other banks. Special, predatory offers abound--2.87 billion mailings in 1999 alone. "Competition doesn't get any better than this," says David Robertson, president of the Nilson Report, a credit-card-industry newsletter...