posted on September 4, 2000 05:13:11 PM
I just got the following email:
Dear Madame,
I have recently sent you an order of shipping supplies from the United States Postal Service. It includes 100 rolls of packaging tape and 2,000 addressee labels. It came to my knowledge that you may be able to use these items for means of shipping via priority mail. If you do not wish to get these free supplies then simply write "Return to Sender" on the packages you recieve from the USPS and you shall never recieve this type of mailing again. If you do wish to keep the supplies, then I just ask that you use them when you ship via priority mail, and nothing else, as this is what the supplies are intended for. There will also be a supplies order form in your package so that you can order more of these supplies including mailers and the such. Anyways, I hope you enjoy these products if you wish to keep them, and have a good day.
HUH??? I know this has an eBay connections - either an email harvester or (more likely) a person who I just got suspended for both harassment and shilling. The wording indicates the later (plus my regular email account offers no indication that I am a "madame" and not a sir.
I tried to research the address in the header, and the sender is actually the webmaster at a free email site. Any idea how I can find out who really sent this and why? Thanks!
posted on September 4, 2000 05:19:20 PM
I would turn this e-mail over to spamcops.com and let them handle it. If it is the person that was NARU'd because of your complaint I wouldn't give them the time of day or the satisfaction that they got to me. Of course, if they have your address you may indeed be getting more mail supplies than you need. Hope someone else has more ideas to help you.
posted on September 4, 2000 06:14:03 PM
One of the puzzling things is that they don't (or shouldn't) have my street address. My EOA gives my PO Box. They pulled my eBay contact info, but that only gives town and phone number. I've tried to find myself on a reverse lookup and can't. So . . .
It does give the phrase "going postal" a whole new meaning, though. LOL
If these supplies do arrive, I intend to let the local post office handle it as I won't open a box of it. I did think that you had to be registered with the postal service to have supplies delivered and that you had to have a customer id number that was specific to you and your address. Does anyone know if that is correct?
Another curious thing is that the Priority Mail People (really them - I checked the number, etc) called me this week to confirm my "order placed online" as it was a large quantity. I explained that I hadn't ordered supplies online for about six months and did not need anything at this time. Seems like a strange coincidence!
posted on September 4, 2000 06:16:39 PM
Send me private email with the email you got. I most likely can find out for you. My email address is [email protected]
