News flash, Reader's Digest licks dogs nuts. Ever tried getting off their mailing list? The previous tenant in my house was on the list. Endless garbage turns up from them every week. Every week I return to sender with "stop sending this garbage" written all over it in red nikko. Hasn't worked yet. 
Zurich and Mumbai were a surprise. I would have thought they would have been the other way around. Oops. My bad 
This information changes my view of the world.
First Flysurfer announces he is going on a cruise, then we find out he is a Readers Digest aficionado.
It seems 'they' have won and Flysurfer has been assimilated.
Hey Flysurfer, do you read it for the humorous articles about cats or do you just subscribe so you can get the latest design in portable bidet from the unbelievably-useful-stuff catalogues ?
i actually did lose a wallet in helsinki after a night out- it was not returned. yet my girlfriend's passport was returned in rio.
Select to expand quotekiteboy dave said..
News flash, Reader's Digest licks dogs nuts. Ever tried getting off their mailing list? The previous tenant in my house was on the list. Endless garbage turns up from them every week. Every week I return to sender with "stop sending this garbage" written all over it in red nikko. Hasn't worked yet.
Hey kiteboydave, I had some success with a different company that used to send me ****e. I called them and calmly explained that next time they sent me any ****e I was going to use their 'reply paid' envelope on the outside of a package to send them an old paving brick (and that I had plenty to get rid of). It worked, haven't had anything from them since.
Select to expand quotekiteboy dave said..
News flash, Reader's Digest licks dogs nuts. Ever tried getting off their mailing list? The previous tenant in my house was on the list. Endless garbage turns up from them every week. Every week I return to sender with "stop sending this garbage" written all over it in red nikko. Hasn't worked yet.
RTS with NATA. They are obliged to stop sending.
In Australian cities they got jacked as soon as they were seen with a wallet... didn't get to drop any.....
Flysurfer do you know if this is recent? I know they did it many years ago and I am pretty sure Sydney was one of the places
small sample per city, such a small number is too dependent on variables such as where exactly they were "lost".
cannot be representative...
Select to expand quoteBuster fin said..kiteboy dave said..
News flash, Reader's Digest licks dogs nuts. Ever tried getting off their mailing list? The previous tenant in my house was on the list. Endless garbage turns up from them every week. Every week I return to sender with "stop sending this garbage" written all over it in red nikko. Hasn't worked yet.
RTS with NATA. They are obliged to stop sending.
I have put that too. It's only been 3 months, I'll escalate soon and try Skids's approach I think!
Having spent 4 months in India, I would suspect that experiment to be a bit flawed. My impression of Indians in general was very smart but in a very self-serving way and very dependent on social rules and caste system. For example where did they drop the wallets? Slum or new shopping mall? What was in the wallets - enough to register that it's a white foreigner? That would change the rules too.
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kiteboy dave said..
News flash, Reader's Digest licks dogs nuts. Ever tried getting off their mailing list? The previous tenant in my house was on the list. Endless garbage turns up from them every week. Every week I return to sender with "stop sending this garbage" written all over it in red nikko. Hasn't worked yet.
RTS with NATA. They are obliged to stop sending.
Crap, I have been getting citylink fines, infringement notices and debt collectors letters from the previous owner for over a year. All big black texta RTS NATA and they still come. Can't wait for the knock on the door. The guy must be up to 100k by now.
I would think at least 100 wallets per city to be statistically relevant, cheap bastards they fly someone all the way to these places and only chuck a few wallets. Maybe the lowly bastards they sent to do the experiments pocketed the money themselves.
RTS never works, you have to call them on the tele and beg with your nice voice.
FWIW I knew a fella who subscribed to every info thing available to get max junk mail, he would bundle it up into logs and burned it in a wood stove for heat.
In the US we have/had? a music club thing in the back of the newspaper where you joined and got 10 free music cd's and then were obligated to buy a certain number at full price later, you could join under a fake name and get your free cd's then blow them off. I knew a guy who joined hundreds of times at different P.O. boxes around town and would go make a route collecting them all the sell them at the flea market on the weekend, this was his job.
Select to expand quoteBeaglebuddy said..
I knew a guy who joined hundreds of times at different P.O. boxes around town and would go make a route collecting them all the sell them at the flea market on the weekend, this was his job.
would be a bit pricey trying that here with P.O. Boxes starting at around $90 per year
stephen
Select to expand quotekiteboy dave said..
News flash, Reader's Digest licks dogs nuts. Ever tried getting off their mailing list? The previous tenant in my house was on the list. Endless garbage turns up from them every week. Every week I return to sender with "stop sending this garbage" written all over it in red nikko. Hasn't worked yet.
Oh man, and they have a style of writing that just annoys bores the **** out of me. National Geographic have started doing it too now I see.Select to expand quote
"But this is not to say that people were stealing the wallets," says Dr. Don Studyalot of Experementia University, Columbia. "If we dig into the data a little deeper we'll see that some people considered them lost and were trying to give them a good home." He is convinced that the human species is more generous than others would have you believe.
However some researchers are proposing entirely new ways to look at the data. "We've created a simulation in our labs," says Dr. Alternate Viewpoint from his office overlooking the Rocky Mountains. "The data proposes the possibility that the wallets are actually stealing each other, adn this raises all sorts of interesting questions."
It's like a formula writes all the articles. I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if the just fed a program some names, locations and basic information and it wrote all the articles.
