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The Australian Olympic Committee are best known—at least in my mind—for helping our athletes and such get organised for the Games where ever in the world they may be held. Such an organisation would seemingly have enough money to print their own envelopes. The kind of envelopes wherein they don't need to lick and slap down a stamp, but ones that have the words "Postage Paid Australia" in the corner where you would normally see a perforated and intricately designed square. During the Olympics the stamps were hijacked every time an Australian or team of Aussies stood in the middle of the podium. The envelope from the AOC had such a takeover, that by the women's hockey team. I would have thought nothing of it until after reading the letter accompanying Susie O'Neill's scanned signature were the four little letters that usually come with most of my pseudo-addressed mail: "adma."
Among the many training sessions Olympic volunteers had to endure and in the material we had to read—reading it was merely a suggestion, one I did not take—we were informed of the fact that our details would automatically be inserted into the TAFE database. The fact of the matter was that if we wanted to sign up for courses later on the training from the games would count as credit. Fine, even though I don't ever seeing myself enrolling for anything else at least I knew the details of my details.
But from nowhere comes this marketing letter infroming me of all the things I can order or possibly win. A limited release film on the Games seems tempting despite the fifteen dollar ticket price. The records show that there were approximately forty thousand volunteers during the 2000 sporting spectacle. That is one helluva mailing list. If money were a problem they should take a look at the amount of advertising at the Goodwill Games.
The Reply Paid envelopes have been invisibly absent of late. Charitible organizations do not count toward the predetermined backlash. Friday came the realisation that they did not flow in as much as once before. What I see now are envelopes asking me to apply my own stamps. One company, Australian Shoppers Survey, had the audacity of asking me to fill in their survey and post it off to them using my own stamp. How ludicrous is that? They even tried baiting with a few prizes—but I don't exist, or at least my pseudonym doesn't. If you send mail without a letter I still think the postal service will see that it is delivered, but the recipient would be charged.
At least that's what happened to me before.
Tuesday, 4 September 2001 - 05:22
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