In the last week I’ve received mail from The New York Times, the Sierra Club, Doctors Without Borders, Feeding America, the ACLU, some liberal anti-capitalism cell phone provider which I forget the name of Credo Mobile, and Washington Monthly (which advertises itself as part of the “vast left-wing conspiracy”).
…Is there some list of Official Liberals somewhere that all of these organizations share? Did I finally make the cut? Does voting Democrat in Washington State automatically set you up for certain spam mailers? I wonder what voting Republican gets you…
Oh well. I guess it’s more interesting than the 38975298 letters I get telling me to apply for a new credit card.
Would that cell phone provider be CREDO mobile, per chance? I don’t get any leaflets in my mail, but I do get lots of emails from Amnesty International, the ACLU, and the Autism Women’s Network. I think that qualifies me as a disabled human rights activist more than general hippie.
I’m getting called what’s wrong with america because I’m so liberal. It’s awesome. I highly recommend it.
I get mail from CREDO…Voting republican probably gets you mailers from megachurches and a lifetime membership to the NRA
I joined the Sierra Club, and was automatically put on mailing lists of nearly all of those other organizations. This was 3+ years ago, and I continue to get mail. It doesn’t take much!
I love being considered a hippie liberal :-)
This is why I’m wary about donating money. It seems like half of more of those groups just spent what I donated and then some on mailing me requests for more money. >.>
Yes, that was it!
Has anyone actually signed up for CREDO cell phone service? How is their coverage? I’ve got to admit i’m kindof intrigued
Look at it this way: You’ll get free address labels for your mail for the rest of your life! (depending on how much snail-mail you send out, this may or may not be a good thing)
I can’t wait to see what I get in the mail next; between my donations to Planned Parenthood, FFRF, NPR, EFF, and the SPLC, future mail might get a bit interesting.At one time I was a donator to the NRA, the ACLU and PP – I don’t at all consider that to be a conflict, but I got quickly tired of the NRA’s pro-Republican/conservative stance (where’s the gun rights org for social liberals?), so I stopped after the first year.Not that they don’t still mail me – its almost as bad as the Book of the Month Club…
They’re based off of Sprint’s network. If you get good Sprint where you are, you’ll get good CREDO.Keep these things in mind though:1. CREDO’s phones are invariably older phones that Sprint used to carry. Their newest, I think, is the HTC Hero. If you’re not into fancy phones, this isn’t a problem.2. On that note, their data plan is pretty..one-dimensional. $30/month unlimited data. Depending on what plan you choose, Sprint might end up actually being cheaper.All that said, their contract terms seemed fairly reasonable. 1% of your bill goes to causes that customers vote for (or you can select them, I think) – you can see the breakdown on CREDO’s website.I’ve heard that their customer service is stellar, but wouldn’t know.Good luck!
A Credo Mobile ad was the first thing mailed to my new name. I think I still have it somewhere. :P
For those 38975298 credit card offers, go here https://www.optoutprescreen.co…My husband and I haven’t gotten one since we signed up, and it’s been recommended by a lot of finance sites that I trust.
I get mail from Credo ALL the freaking TIME it seems. Not sure how I got on their list. I get e-mails from the South Carolina Democrats because I signed up back in 2008, but they never send me snail mail, so that can’t be how Credo got me. I wouldn’t use them personally, they’re Sprint network (it seems like nearly all small cell companies are on Sprint) and that doesn’t have good coverage around here.
They also don’t carry a “shock and water resistant” phone model, which prevents me from even passingly considering them.
Pretty much this. I don’t need more than a basic phone, so that’s no biggie – and for as hard as I am on my phone (multiple droppings, multiple puddles), I’ve never had a problem with the Sanyo Katana I got for free from them. Their customer service kicks butt, too – I’ve only talked to them twice (once when setting up my family plan, and once when the phone for the said family plan didn’t show up), but they were super awesome; A++ Would call again.
It’s because of those nice donations you made… now that they know you’re a giver, they’ll keep coming.My husband, somehow, got on McCain’s mailing list during the last election. He decided to write them a check for 2 cents, thinking they’d get the hint. Big mistake. We started getting calls thanking us for our “generous contribution”, and asking for more.
Hmm…Why not just fill one of those prepaid envelopes with fourteen pennies? The postage would probably cost more than the $0.14, which makes for a decent ‘fuck you,’ I’d think.
True. Our thought was that it would waste salaried time trying to figure out what the hell to do with it. Plus, the idea of giving his 2 cents to McCain was a euphemism too good to pass up. BTW, it was never cashed…
Are you a hippie liberal? Yeah very. But it’s ok, you’re still a good person despite being a commu-nazi-hippie. O have you tried Wii Fit yet? My mom did that for 10 minutes before getting mad at it for telling her she’s old.
/agree with other posters on their customer service. I’ve never had a bad experience with them.Also, they have free roaming in their plan, so even if you don’t get super-great sprint service where you are, it’s not a super big deal.
“I wonder what voting Republican gets you…”Gift certificates! What better way to celebrate your country’s independence, than by blowing up a small part of it?
Better yet, get a brick and wrap it in brown paper, then paste the envelope to that and mail it.
Also – if a brick won’t work, get a piece of sheet steel (or lead, if you can find it) sized to fit the envelope, of a thickness and weight to really send the point home. Bonus points if you have it engraved with a message…
You are pretty lucky to have a liberal pacific mind , imagine for one moment having a kind of religious Sarah Palin style state of mind, it would be awfull, isn’t it?
I don’t know that this it (kind of doubt that it is) but in lots of places voter registration information is public info. So that would give people making a pitch a rather handy way of getting mailing addresses for people whose politics lean their way.
This will only lead to more requests for more money but just for the sheer perversity of it I would start writing asking for your 2 cents back.
Welcome to the fray…
I think she’s been in the fray for quite a while.
It was sarcasm…
Not really a part of the vast liberal conspiracy until you have the t-shirt…
I get those CREDO emails too because they frequently use online petitions to gather potential new liberal customers. Just stumbled upon your blog through another one on my daily blogroll. I love it so much that I linked you on my dorky physics poetry blog megfrances.wordpress.com. Thanks for providing so much insight into the secret world of grad school. I plan to take that route in the next 2 years or less and like to know what I’ll be getting myself in to.
You can always go to Charity Navigator and see just how much of your donation gets spent on fundraising.