I have a Giant Eagle Advantage Card because I’m in Pittsburgh a few times a year. Like most of my other supermarket cards from around the country (yes, I have a lot of them), it’s registered under my Winston-Salem address. There’s not a Giant Eagle within about four hundred miles of here. You’d think their mailing list database software would recognize that based on my zip code and that I probably wouldn’t get postcards in the mail inviting me a to a one-day seafood sale on Saturday. You’d be wrong.
This isn’t really what I wanted to write about today but, hey, whatever…
So, we submitted the USPS change of address form to get our mail forwarded from SF to Buffalo. We have been getting the California election flyers mailed to us, but not with the yellow new address stickers slapped on them, but with our new NY address printed on the flyers. So, I assume the campaigns changed our address in their databases & continue to send us mailings. What a waste of time, money & effort!
That same thing happened to me when I moved in 2005. Good thing the State of California has an endless supply of funds, huh?