Address Labels Continued, Again

I got some more mail last week. As you may have guess by the title of this blog entry, it was more address labels! I just took a count of them. I have 12 sets! 12!! Three of them are Christmas oriented. The rest vary from Susan G. Komen, a couple sets from March of Dimes, Habitat for Humanity, RIT, and others.

For the one piece of mail I send a month I am having trouble determining which address label set is most appropriate per the mail I am sending. I am tempted to slap one of everything on there and call it a day. I don't think the post office would get it. In fact I would probably have it mailed back to me because they couldn't find the real address of where it was supposed to go.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate that I don't have to write out my address. Even if it is only for the once a month I will send something through the post office. I am lazy in that respect. This just may be the most address labels I have ever gotten for an address I will only have for a year. If I sent a piece of mail every day until I left I still would have some left over! What am I going to do with them? Maybe I should make a mosaic out of them...

Anyone want mail?

A Little Scary

My mailbox is starting to frighten me. Either it's one big cosmic coincidence OR it knows what I write in my blog. I opened up the box and today March of Dimes decided to do their best to win me over with fancy mailing labels.

These are more Christmas ones so I guess my third cousins may be lucky enough to get a card from me this year. Although their opening statement was, "... I know I've taken a risk in sending you this dime..." Damn right you did. I have a wedding fund to save for! Free money! It was like getting paid to pick up the mail. Thanks!

Maybe I should have a contest where everyone can vote for their favorite address label and I will just throw the rest out. Seriously, this is getting ridiculous. Thankfully it's in a funny way.

Address Labels Continued

Well, this may be record breaking. I got another set of them today. New ones from Susan G. Komen. They are the more hip, new design with my accurate address. I cut them some slack though, it is National Breast Cancer Awareness month. They have a reason. I am no official company sponsor, but it would be cool if you would support them in some way. Heck, if you like Yopliat, just eat yogurt and send in the lids. It's one of the very few charities (other than friend's individual causes they raise money for) that I feel is worthy of my hard earned money.

This also makes me wonder if it's just coincidence that I am getting all of these now or if studies have determined people are willing to chip in money for whatever charity this time of year. I have no idea.

If you get anything kind of mail from me in the coming months, I may slap one of each one on the envelope so you can see how pretty they all are. Although this may just confuse the post office and your mail will get to you in about, oh, say 2010.

Address Labels

I just got back from the mailbox. It was an exciting trip I assure you, but I won't bore you with the details. What I want to tell you about is what was in my mailbox. Another envelope with address labels from a charity.

I used to hate writing out my address on envelopes and often made my own. I don't think that will ever happen again. I seem to have hit the jackpot for accumulating address labels from a number of charities. Some of them I have donated to in the past and others are hoping I will send them money because they happened to drop address labels in my mailbox.

I have been in this apartment for approximately three months now and have received five bundles of address labels. They were from RIT, Habitat for Humanity, Children's Cancer Research Fund, Susan G. Komen, and now the Alzheimer's Association. Three of those were delivered in the past week!

Maybe it's trying to encourage people to write more. Some of them are coming with pads of paper as well, so I might be on to something here. I send all my bills electronically and I don't generally sit down and write a hand written note to anyone, so those uses are out. The only time I really use them is for sending cards. I guess I should start sending more of those out.

At least the ones I got today I can use for my Christmas cards since they are holiday themed. I don't know what's going to happen if I keep getting these though. My problem is that I like them all. I haven't gotten any and said, "Oh gross, I am not putting that on a card", so I guess I will just add them to the pile.

Maybe I will hold a secret contest (which only you will know about) with myself to try and use them all. Or maybe I can build a fort of address labels.... Hmm....