May 23, 2007
Mildly Obscene
Last December, in a valliant attempt to tidy up our dining room table and save the environment in one fell swoop, all of us here at Dakota sent a check for $36 to GreenDimes, an organization that cancels mail order catalogs on your behalf, and plants trees in their stead. Though the catalog companies are slow to respond, gradually most of our 86 (!?!!!) unwanted publications have disappeared.
Yesterday we received this shocking email from GreenDimes founder and CEO Pankaj Shah regarding Victoria's Secret:
We contact thousands of catalog companies and mailers on our member's behalf every month. Each of these is cooperative and provides an easy way for us to take customers off of mailing list... all but ONE. Victoria's Secret. They require us to call them each and every time we take a customer off of their lists - which can mean hold times of 30 minutes! Odd given that people can request to RECEIVE and REDUCE catalog mailings on-line. I guess this is why they keep sending 350 Million catalogs every year. Feel strongly about this? Email Brigitta Witt (Brigitta@greendimes.com) who runs corporate development for us and tell her what you think.
Now that we have reached an age where flaunting one's cleavage is considered undignified, and there are currently no adolescent boys in residence, Victoria's Secret's monthly deluge is quite unnecessary in our household. As far as we're concerned, what we once considered harmless soft porn has just raised its rating to green obscene
By the way here's the GreenDimes report:
We're up to 514,000 pounds of junk mail stopped, over 174,000 trees planted and over 1,313,000 gallons of water saved. Thanks to everyone and keep spreading the word
Okay.
Photo note: Isn't there something a little obscene about this shot? AND there's no green in sight.
Posted by Dakota at May 23, 2007 07:23 AM