The AT&T Universal credit card company turned down applicant Dallas Hill Jr., accidentally sending him 2,986 rejection letters by U.S. Mail (Telford, Tenn.) [Johnson City Press, 3-26-02] I guess they really didn't want him as a customer!
Maybe he should have used CreditNet and worked on his score before he applied. His credit must have really stunk and clogged up their system so they bombed him with rejection letters.
Credit card company rejects application of man â?? 3,000 times By Dawn Davenport Press Business Writer If theyâ??ve told him â??noâ? once, theyâ??ve told him 3,000 times. A credit card company sent nearly 3,000 pieces of mail to a Telford man last week, apparently all copies of the same letter denying him an account. A mail carrier tried Friday to deliver 2,986 letters from AT&T Universal Card Services to Dallas Hill Jr.â??s home on Clyde Miller Road. Hill wasnâ??t home, so the carrier left him a note and returned the unopened letters to the Telford Post Office, where they still were Monday, postmaster Bob Purgason said. The letters arrived together at the post office Friday, and Purgason and his staff had to sort and count them by hand to make sure they all were addressed to the same person. â??They looked identical,â? Purgason said. â??They had the same return address and the same delivery address.â? Hill stopped by the post office Saturday and took a couple of the letters with him. â??The two that I opened were the same,â? he said. Although all the letters were addressed to Dallas Hill Jr., his father, Dallas Hill Sr., said the letter may have been intended for him because he recently sent an application to AT&T Universal. â??Dear Dallas Hill,â? the letter read. â??We regret we are unable to approve your application. We can accept only one application for the same solicitation, and you have already responded to our offer.â? â??My son must have applied, too,â? Hill Sr. said, adding that because he and his son share the same first and last name, the credit card companyâ??s computers may have mixed them up. The Telford Post Office still was holding Hill Jr.â??s mail Monday morning. â??He is supposed to let me know whether to accept them or refuse them,â? Purgason said. If Hill Jr. refuses them, the post office would return them to the sender. Purgason, who has worked for the U.S. Postal Service for 27 years, never has seen a case quite like this, he said. â??Iâ??ve never seen that many letters from one company to one individual at one time,â? he said.
I would call them and "THREATEN" them with "RETURN TO SENDER"... RE-CONSIDER OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES...
You found the whole article LOL... I just get little 'snippets' of the news emailed to me on my "News of the Weird" email list. They always have some off the wall stuff... like this: Among the absurdities touching Enron Corp. was the report in February by a former employee, broadcast by NBC News, that the company ran a mock trading floor in its Houston headquarters, furnished with desks, large flat-panel computer screens and teleconference rooms, for the sole purpose of making visitors believe the company furiously traded commodities full-time. In reality, revealed the employee, the equipment was only hooked up internally, and the employee-"traders," who appeared to be frantically placing orders, were merely talking to each other. [NBC Nightly News, 2-27-02]
Imagine their mailing costs - and double it - cause I would send back every single one of them and they could pay the return postage.
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I don't think they would have to pay return postage...BUT...they would have to process (visually "LOOK" at every single envelope) to make sure that it was one of "HIS" and NOT somebody else's...
