After vacation, our mail got delivered in a bundle. This morning, I noticed a receipt in the bundle on our dining room table, telling me that I missed delivery of certified mail and it was waiting for me at the post office. Certified mail? A letter? From mysterious source "Victory." I instantly got nervous. Who is Victory and why are they suing me?
So, before I went out to spend money at Bed Bath & Beyond, I decided to first trudge to the post office to pick up what I was sure was a weird summons & complaint. I can go without curtain rods if I'm going to have to pay legal fees. Or I thought it could be some Christian organization ("Victory") sending me an offer to come write for them. Or something pregnancy-related. But that made too much sense, so I was sure it was a lawsuit or an ideal work-from-home-and-do- exactly-what-you-want offer. Because that's the way I roll... illogically at times.
So I hauled myself and toddler into the post office, handed the mailman the receipt, and basically snarled as soon as I saw what he handed me. A letter, sent certified mail, from the Republican National Convention. The mailman then received an unsolicited "Can you believe this?" and subsequent lecture on wastefulness. Luckily, he was in agreement. I then proceeded to Starbucks to practice my own brand of wastefulness. To each their own.
A few months ago I donated $100 to the RNC. Actually, just writing that, I'm not even sure it was that much. It may have only been $50. It was an online donation. Regardless, not over $100. Since that time, I receive mailers every week. The cost of printing and postage on all that has been sent to me has far exceeded my donation amount. Then they send an ordinary request for donation via certified mail? Are you kidding me? The worst part, is that it was a form letter, with the ploy that "it is so important that we sent this certified mail, guaranteeing you received it." So, basically, the RNC spent the money for every Tom, Dick, Harry and Marge who's ever given ten bucks to receive this standard form letter via certified mail.
Get a smart platform. Put out a good ad. Pay a bevy of political and legal researchers. You could've saved hundreds of dollars by not sending me stuff for which I neither asked nor wanted. Don't waste the money on mailers and that stupid "certificate of partnership" or whatever you sent me as my "free gift" a few weeks back. That ended up in the garbage... where this country will be if the RNC doesn't get its head out of its can.
You're cut-off, RNC! No more donations until the presidential primary. And then you can have fifty more dollars.
