Shitty Ask Lemmy

I get handwritten get-out-the-vote stuff pretty regularly (living in a swing state fucking sucks for junkmail and phone bothers), which is a massive waste of everyone’s time since I always vote, but other than that all hand written stuff is printed. It would not sway me even slightly if some schmuck was apparently out there hand-writing their spam. Automatic writing instruments exist, and people/companies who advertise tend to behave in shady ways. So I wouldn’t believe it was genuinely hand written.

The one solicitation I got last year that I actively liked was from mint mobile. They really don’t bother their existing customers for upsells at all, (outside of the app you only open to renew or modify your service) in my experience, probably because it’s super-cheap pre-pay and burning goodwill for a low conversion rate isn’t worth it. So what I got was an unbranded festive headshot of Ryan Reynolds, who owns it I think, with some Christmas message on the back, along with a festive mocktail recipe on another card stock sheet. Didn’t say anything about the service or company other than the logo on the back of each card sheet, and return address. It’s still junk mail meant to make me think about a company, but it’s so low-pressure that now I have a headshot of Ryan Reynolds to add to my holiday card display. And it stays up after the holidays because it’s silly. So that’s fun.