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...when bills for the former roommate started piling up in Buxeda's mailbox, and all efforts to locate him through unanswered letters and disconnected phone numbers had failed, the trio of seniors couldn't help but wonder where their friend was, and why he was being hounded by numerous credit agencies...
...writes letters today? When I first came to Harvard I and most of my dormmates were thrilled to get our own mailboxes. After five months of writing to high school friends who only wrote back after three months and five phone calls, the novelty wore off. What's so great about having a mailbox if all one gets are overdue notices from the Theological Library...
...South, a historically bellicose region, a traveler sees a random yellow ribbon tied on a mailbox. Church suppers are putting together toilet kits to send to the soldiers in the gulf. Mothers with children serving in the Middle East are still sympathetic celebrities in the neighborhoods. And yet, as a conservative civil engineer in Atlanta remarked wearily last week, "every time I turn around, we seem to be going to some damned war or another. It just doesn't seem to stop...
...York City concern that brokers and manages lists. "We're not doing that. We're identifying markets." As a result of their care, goes the argument, less unwanted mail is inflicted on consumers. Says Katie Muldoon, president of a New York City direct-marketing agency: "If the mailbox is going to be crowded, we want to make sure it's stuff people want...
...intriguing, enticing, exasperating mountain of direct mail is not about to go away. The fact is Americans like it too much and find it too useful. After all, while a trip to a junk-free mailbox might be less irksome, it would also be less helpful and interesting. The challenge, for senders and consumers alike, is to look hard at the flood of third-class communication and find ways to maintain the dialogue at a reasonable pitch...