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The question is not how that text got to be on the envelope, the question is why a retail company had collected that piece of information about a customer in th
by brazzy 13y ago
The question is not how that text got to be on the envelope, the question is why a retail company had collected that piece of information about a customer in the first place!
- patio11 13y agoSomeone typed it into a computer at some time in the past, and after information is in a computer, it remaining in a computer is a much safer bet than "And then it got deleted and we never spoke about it again." For example, suppose a marketing company has a computer system which organizes people by households. They call a household and ask for a particular member. She's recently deceased. They type a note on that household's record, with the intention that the next person accessing that record knows that they should under no circumstances ask for the daughter who recently passed away in tragic circumstances. Some years later, a software or process bug results in that record getting entered into a mail merge.
- sjs382 13y ago> In a statement, OfficeMax said the mailing "is a result of a mailing list rented through a third-party provider"