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Junk Mail don't you just love it :-((


Once a week the postman delivers a big pile of (none-
addressed) leaflets and catalogues. It seems to be common
practice here in France. It comes in quite handy as we have
a wood burning stove, and since we don't take any
newspapers the leaflets all get used for lighting the fire.

Kind of so many organisations to send us free paper to
light our fire :-)

We shred ours, it makes good compost, I smile though that I personally
get on average 3 offers of car insurance per day, strange really as I
have never held a driving licence or owned a vehicle! Just think how much
cheaper car insurance could be without the pointless waste, never mind
the stationary, the cost of postage alone must be enormous, I worked it
out a few years ago and to me alone it was over £300 per year, admittidly
not all from the same firm.

Todays post brings 2 car insurance offers from Norwich union two from
Privilege and one from Sheilas wheels! total 5, not a record but a good
day for the compost heap!

I would not be surprised that you are being targeted for
car insurance because your address is possibly flagged up
on a database as not having any car insurance currently
associated with it - so therefore you must need some!

A few years ago I did some IT work for a large UK company
that collated and processed data from numerous sources. It
is absolutely incredible the amount of information known
about both individuals and addresses. This is frequently
used for both highly targeted mailing campaigns right down
to companies deciding where to build shopping centres, open
a McDonalds etc etc. At the time I left they were creating
a monster sized database that collated everything ever
bought where they could be identified as the purchaser via
their credit card number or loyalty card. These companies
know more about you than you do.

Note that if you paid for a copy of the dossier about you
it would only include a tiny fraction about what is

Well there is a vehicle here, a van, but it belongs to my wife not me. I
think what annoys me about a lot of these mail shots is that when you
do decide to phone up for a price they never want to sell you anything
anyway - as soon as they here its a van we want a price on, they just
hang up, same with house insurance, none of the companies that mail shot
are prepared to offer insurance on anything out of the ordinary and we
only get as far as what the house built of and again they hang up. which
would be fine if they would then take us off their lists!!
What it to do with gardening, well two years ago one company refused to
quote on the grounds we had a garden !!!
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Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea