Stupid, Stupid, Stupid People! (long)

Not likely - being 1988 and all.

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"Duke of URL" wrote in message
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"Magic Mood Jeep©" wrote in message
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Not even six months later, Mom gets a phone call from the EXACT same VA
Hospital, the VERY same department/wing where he was when he passed on,
to
remind my father to set up his bi-annual heart checkup.

Most of the "reminder calls" I get from the VAMCs are computer-originated
and use computer-generated synthetic voices. Perhaps that's what happened.
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Not likely - being 1988 and all.

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in Bloomington! (And proud of it, too)©
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"Duke of URL" wrote in message
...
"Magic Mood Jeep©" wrote in message
news:EV1zc.27313$eu.15280@attbi_s02...

Not even six months later, Mom gets a phone call from the EXACT same VA
Hospital, the VERY same department/wing where he was when he passed on,
to
remind my father to set up his bi-annual heart checkup.

Most of the "reminder calls" I get from the VAMCs are computer-originated
and use computer-generated synthetic voices. Perhaps that's what happened.
--
The One-and-only Holy MosesT

Not likely - being 1988 and all.

--
The ONE and ONLY
lefthanded-pathetic-paranoid-psychotic-sarcastic-wiseass-ditzy former-blonde
in Bloomington! (And proud of it, too)©
email me at nalee1964 (at) insightbb (dot) com
http://community.webshots.com/user/mgcmdjeep


"Duke of URL" wrote in message
...
"Magic Mood Jeep©" wrote in message
news:EV1zc.27313$eu.15280@attbi_s02...

Not even six months later, Mom gets a phone call from the EXACT same VA
Hospital, the VERY same department/wing where he was when he passed on,
to
remind my father to set up his bi-annual heart checkup.

Most of the "reminder calls" I get from the VAMCs are computer-originated
and use computer-generated synthetic voices. Perhaps that's what happened.
--
The One-and-only Holy MosesT

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On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 16:00:32 -0600, m. L. Briggs
wrote:

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 16:08:28 -0500, "jmcquown"
wrote:

Duke of URL wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote in message
...

It's a RANT. Pardon me if I've told this before, but I got
[snip] unless I get another stupid correspondence from them, I
won't act on

And there is some good reason to keep on trusting your beloved
pets to this place which has demonstrated both stupidity and
ignorance?

Oh, I don't take my pets there. I haven't been there since that
day in November, 1999. That's why I don't understand why, after
all this time, I suddenly got this letter from them.

Jill

Probably an outdated mailing list and nobody bothered to check it
out. There are "detail people" and those who are not. Years ago my
boss
brought me a mailing list a friend had passed on to him and asked me
how long it would take to prepare envelopes for a mailing. I said
"a week". He was aghast and said why? for that many envelopes. I
asked him if he had really looked at the list? Names of prominent
people
long deceased. Downtown businesses no longer there. I explained
that since the list was 10 years oild, every address would have to
be
checked out. It was a tedious job. Any newcomer would not have
known this.

My parents lived in the same house here in Nashville for 25 years.
For the first 15 years of that time, they received a thick, glossy
gift catalog every year from a company in Ireland, addressed to the
previous occupants of the house. The combined cost of printing the
catalog and mailing it across the Atlantic must have been $8 or $9.
My parents never ordered anything from the catalog; the goods were
beautiful but very expensive. After 15 years, the company either got
around to purging their mailing list, or (I suspect) went bankrupt
from sending out thousands of catalogs to out-of-date addresses.

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On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 16:00:32 -0600, m. L. Briggs
wrote:

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 16:08:28 -0500, "jmcquown"
wrote:

Duke of URL wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote in message
...

It's a RANT. Pardon me if I've told this before, but I got
[snip] unless I get another stupid correspondence from them, I
won't act on

And there is some good reason to keep on trusting your beloved
pets to this place which has demonstrated both stupidity and
ignorance?

Oh, I don't take my pets there. I haven't been there since that
day in November, 1999. That's why I don't understand why, after
all this time, I suddenly got this letter from them.

Jill

Probably an outdated mailing list and nobody bothered to check it
out. There are "detail people" and those who are not. Years ago my
boss
brought me a mailing list a friend had passed on to him and asked me
how long it would take to prepare envelopes for a mailing. I said
"a week". He was aghast and said why? for that many envelopes. I
asked him if he had really looked at the list? Names of prominent
people
long deceased. Downtown businesses no longer there. I explained
that since the list was 10 years oild, every address would have to
be
checked out. It was a tedious job. Any newcomer would not have
known this.

My parents lived in the same house here in Nashville for 25 years.
For the first 15 years of that time, they received a thick, glossy
gift catalog every year from a company in Ireland, addressed to the
previous occupants of the house. The combined cost of printing the
catalog and mailing it across the Atlantic must have been $8 or $9.
My parents never ordered anything from the catalog; the goods were
beautiful but very expensive. After 15 years, the company either got
around to purging their mailing list, or (I suspect) went bankrupt
from sending out thousands of catalogs to out-of-date addresses.

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On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 16:00:32 -0600, m. L. Briggs
wrote:

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 16:08:28 -0500, "jmcquown"
wrote:

Duke of URL wrote:
"jmcquown" wrote in message
...

It's a RANT. Pardon me if I've told this before, but I got
[snip] unless I get another stupid correspondence from them, I
won't act on

And there is some good reason to keep on trusting your beloved
pets to this place which has demonstrated both stupidity and
ignorance?

Oh, I don't take my pets there. I haven't been there since that
day in November, 1999. That's why I don't understand why, after
all this time, I suddenly got this letter from them.

Jill

Probably an outdated mailing list and nobody bothered to check it
out. There are "detail people" and those who are not. Years ago my
boss
brought me a mailing list a friend had passed on to him and asked me
how long it would take to prepare envelopes for a mailing. I said
"a week". He was aghast and said why? for that many envelopes. I
asked him if he had really looked at the list? Names of prominent
people
long deceased. Downtown businesses no longer there. I explained
that since the list was 10 years oild, every address would have to
be
checked out. It was a tedious job. Any newcomer would not have
known this.

My parents lived in the same house here in Nashville for 25 years.
For the first 15 years of that time, they received a thick, glossy
gift catalog every year from a company in Ireland, addressed to the
previous occupants of the house. The combined cost of printing the
catalog and mailing it across the Atlantic must have been $8 or $9.
My parents never ordered anything from the catalog; the goods were
beautiful but very expensive. After 15 years, the company either got
around to purging their mailing list, or (I suspect) went bankrupt
from sending out thousands of catalogs to out-of-date addresses.

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"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better
than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

But unless I get
another stupid correspondence from them, I won't act on it. If, however,
for some reason going forward they think I still need reminding about caring
for my dog they'll be hearing from me.

They give our names and addresses to a service that sends out yearly reminders
for shots and visits. I guess they also give it out to drug and food companies.
I get lots of stuff addressed to my cats Boots who's been dead 1.5 years. I
also get it for all the many fosters I've had. With the new mandatory privacy
policy they must tell you ahead of time what htey will do with your
information. If you don't want them to give it out, you just check a box or
call a number and they take it off. That's the law, at least here in
California, USA. I am not that fond of being reminded of Boots passing every
time I get a notice but at least it's not as bad as it used to be. I really
balled my head off when the vet who put him to sleep sent me a card and all the
vet techs signed it.

But unless I get
another stupid correspondence from them, I won't act on it. If, however,
for some reason going forward they think I still need reminding about caring
for my dog they'll be hearing from me.

They give our names and addresses to a service that sends out yearly reminders
for shots and visits. I guess they also give it out to drug and food companies.
I get lots of stuff addressed to my cats Boots who's been dead 1.5 years. I
also get it for all the many fosters I've had. With the new mandatory privacy
policy they must tell you ahead of time what htey will do with your
information. If you don't want them to give it out, you just check a box or
call a number and they take it off. That's the law, at least here in
California, USA. I am not that fond of being reminded of Boots passing every
time I get a notice but at least it's not as bad as it used to be. I really
balled my head off when the vet who put him to sleep sent me a card and all the
vet techs signed it.

But unless I get
another stupid correspondence from them, I won't act on it. If, however,
for some reason going forward they think I still need reminding about caring
for my dog they'll be hearing from me.

They give our names and addresses to a service that sends out yearly reminders
for shots and visits. I guess they also give it out to drug and food companies.
I get lots of stuff addressed to my cats Boots who's been dead 1.5 years. I
also get it for all the many fosters I've had. With the new mandatory privacy
policy they must tell you ahead of time what htey will do with your
information. If you don't want them to give it out, you just check a box or
call a number and they take it off. That's the law, at least here in
California, USA. I am not that fond of being reminded of Boots passing every
time I get a notice but at least it's not as bad as it used to be. I really
balled my head off when the vet who put him to sleep sent me a card and all the
vet techs signed it.

Takayuki wrote:



Sampson must have been a wonderful dog for you to have cared for and
about him so much.

It might help to think of it as what they call an "integration", or
"data cleanliness" problem. Nobody maintains mailing lists well.


You've got that right! Everytime I buy something from Lane Bryant's
catalog, they must add me to their list again! (Lately I've been
getting at least one a day.)