Weird mail

[Severen13]

Some very weird things show up in my mail from time to time:

I got one of those book-club type things that offers romance novels for Christian African-American women. Pretty harmless, but three things royally cracked me up:

1) I don't read romance novels.
2) I'm an atheist.
3) I'm not African-American. If I was any whiter, I'd be invisible.



I once got a letter from the AARP welcoming me to their organization. I was 28 at the time.



I once got a subscription to OMNI, a now defunct magazine that published science articles and science fiction stories. Except I didn't order it. Nobody in my family ordered it for me. Science and science fiction are not my thing, yet for a year I kept getting this magazine I had zero interest in reading that clearly had my very distinctive name on the address label.

Whoever got it for me......thanks?



What about you?

[BookstoreEscapee]

I got Golf World magazine weekly for about a year. I have no idea why. The weirder thing is that it first started coming to my parents' house and then somehow followed me to my apartment. I do not play golf (though my dad does and I got him some golf-related Christmas gifts that year). And when I went on their website to try to change the address back to my parents' house (so I wouldn't have to keep bringing it to my dad) the account did not exist, either under my name or the account number that was printed on the address label. Then I finally got one with a cover on that said "THIS IS YOUR LAST ISSUE!!!" and after that I got at least two or three more.

Not really weird, since I live in an apartment, but it seems every other day we get something for somebody that does not live here...we've been here a year and a half and we're still seeing new names showing up in our mail.

The one that really gets me is the stuff addressed to someone with the first name Semen.

[ShinyGreenApple]

We got a catalog for high-end cigars and smoking accessories once, in Dad's name. There are three generations of my family living in this house (My parents, me, my nephew) and none of us has ever remotely considered smoking. In fact, two of us are asthmatics

Oh well, it was interesting to look at though.

[Toujin]

We sometimes get mail addressed to the people who used to live here. And we *still* keep getting mail for a deceased great-aunt (Mom was the executor of her will and estate)

But the weirdest of all would have to be when my grandparents got a flyer for an Arabic-language cable company. Thing is, my grandparents are of Irish/Welsh/English descent, and don't even speak a word of Arabic.

[Kogarashi]

I've gotten the AARP letter at least twice, and I'm still in my early twenties. Another friend of mine has gotten it as well, and she's only a year older than me.

I've received at least two items of mail addressed to me by name and written completely in Spanish. These are typed, not handwritten, and come from businesses. Thing is, I don't speak a lick of Spanish beyond counting to ten and a handful of extra words. My two-year-old knows more Spanish than me.

I started getting a fantasy/pseudo-celtic/new age clothing and accessories catalogue addressed to me, despite never signing up for it. I got the "THIS IS YOUR LAST ISSUE OMG!" notice at one point, after which the issues stopped. For about half a year. They've recently started up again for some reason.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I think my parents still get catalogs for my grandmother. She died in 2001.

[Aramika]

My family still gets mail for the people who used to live in our house and we've lived here for over 15 years.

[Primer]

I once got a subscription to OMNI, a now defunct magazine that published science articles and science fiction stories. Except I didn't order it. Nobody in my family ordered it for me. Science and science fiction are not my thing, yet for a year I kept getting this magazine I had zero interest in reading that clearly had my very distinctive name on the address label.

Whoever got it for me......thanks?

Two years ago, I got a year's worth of Time Magazine.
Last year was Reader's Digest.
This year seems to Be Smithsonian Magazine.



I'd rather be getting OMNI...

[BookstoreEscapee]

Two years ago, I got a year's worth of Time Magazine.
Last year was Reader's Digest.
This year seems to Be Smithsonian Magazine.

I got Time Magazine for a while when I was around college-age, I think. Don't know why.
I wouldn't mind Reader's Digest but I don't want it enough to pay for it. My parents used to get it as far back as I can remember. They stopped getting it several years ago, though, cuz it started getting smaller with more and more ads.

[edible_hat]

I have recieved:
-a DVD about a weekend seminar that will lead me down the path to enlightenment.
-a letter saying "I've done a special psychic reading just for you, it says somehting very important but I won't tell you what unless you pay me". (I bet they'd get more takers if it wasn't printed in a "handwritten" font)
-brochures about concrete dome houses.
-a Jeep spare parts catalog.
-a videotape about body building, accompanied by a health supplement catalog.

[BookstoreEscapee]

(I bet they'd get more takers if it wasn't printed in a "handwritten" font)

But that's how you know it was done personally just for you!!

[AnaKhouri]

I never had a weird mail experience until today!

I found a copy of the magazine Dwell in my mailbox, addressed to me, at my correct address. Dwell is an architecture/interior design magazine. I would never in a million years subscribe to such a magazine, and anyone who knows me, knows I have zero interest in interior design. So what the hell?

[draftermatt]

Whoo Boy. See my mother is a catalog freak, and since she and I share the same first initial (and of course used to live in the same house) we frequently get catalogs just because she has ordered from one which sold her info to someone else, etc. We've even got credit card offers addressed to my mother (full name) but to our address.

We occasionally order from catalogs so we get odd ones too. Like the pagan artifacts catalog (which had some nice shirts my wife liked). I've gotten many cigar catalogs, and for a while I was getting post cards from Playboy asking me to subscribe.

The other week I got a letter from Time Magazine offering me reduced subscriptions for my dental office... (My grandfather was a dentist and he died in 1986).

And then I got a letter from DirecTV offering me reduced rates for my business.

We frequently get things for the former owners, but they always seem to be things from attorneys or "Department of Child Support Collection" so yeah...

[LibraryLady]

For years I've been getting post card notices of Community Board meetings. The problem is that the meetings are in a district in which I neither live nor work. I've never received notice of a Community Board meeting for the appropriate district.

I keep getting catalogs for plus-sized clothing geared to African-American women. I'm neither plus-size nor African-American.

We get catalogs for baby things. We have never had a child or ever ordered toys or clothing for children. (Hubby thinks we get these because of our Zip Code).

Funniest of all, Hubby keeps getting solicitations to join the National Rifle Association. He's legally blind.

[ArcticChicken]

My family still gets mail for the people who used to live in our house and we've lived here for over 15 years.

Try 25

Funniest of all, Hubby keeps getting solicitations to join the National Rifle Association. He's legally blind.

That wouldn't stop him in Michigan.