Inclusive Junk Mail Part 6

Oh my God! It happened! It happened! It really actually happened!

After two years of having "foreign" mail periodically show up in our mail box addressed to hubby, we now actually got a piece in the correct language.

We've gotten inclusive junk mail in Chinese and Korean (more Korean than Chinese), and now -- finally -- someone out there in direct marketing land has figured out that hubby's name is none of the above but is instead Vietnamese.

Actually, I'm not so sure anybody really figured it out. More like a lucky shot in the dark.

Hmmmm. If we don't respond to this offer, will they think he isn't Vietnamese and move on to yet another Asian language? We can only wait and see.

Inclusive Junk Mail Part 5

Many, many months have passed since any pieces of inclusive junk mail have landed in my box.

According to my past blog entries, the last time a mass mailer came a-callin' that was printed in another language was December 2007.

That was so many months ago that I'd kinda forgotten about the whole thing. Well, no more.

Just the other day, this credit card solicitation showed up. It's a joint deal between US Bank and Korean Air. If we sign up for their card, we'll earn miles.

Considering the Korean Air logo and the Korean script, it's pretty obvious that somebody out there has decided hubby is Korean based on the look and feel of his name.

But he's not. As Quang said after opening this mail, "There's nothing Korean about my name."

Inclusive Junk Mail Part 4

As the annual slew of holiday greetings begins to arrive at my house, one particular piece of junk mail recently caught my eye. It's a Dish Network mass-mailer postcard printed in Korean.

If you're a newbie to my blog-o-sphere musings, you might not be familiar with the Korean mail that's been showing up at my house. See, my husband was born in Vietnam. He's got one of those names that customer service people always stumble over: Quang.

Somehow, Dish Network got a hold of an "Asian" mailing list and we've been getting their stuff ever since. The mailers started arriving one year ago. First, it came in Chinese. The second mailer was in Korean. So was the third. And now the fourth.

I was thinking that if we just waited long enough, one would eventually show up in Vietnamese. Not yet. This is our third mailer this year in Korean.