Birthday Card
In the mail today, I received a hand-written birthday card from my bank. It was mailed from zip code 98101, which makes sense, as that puts it right in the middle of downtown Seattle.
The card is orange and red and has both printed and hand-written birthday messages on the inside. I wouldn't have known it was from my bank, had the last line inside the card not said, "from all of us at WaMu." My address on the envelope, by the way, is also hand-written.
Seriously, who receives hand-written birthday cards from their bank? What does this mean? They would have to employ full-time card writers to get one of these to every one of their millions of customers! There's no way they do that. I'm so confused.
Comments
I can't speak for WAMU, but I can speak for Chase. Chase sends out birthday cards too, but they are not handwritten. They LOOK like they are handwritten, but they actually are not. There's some type of machine out there that can crank "handwritten" cards out by the thousands, and none of them are actually handwritten. The computer is meant to simulate handwriting so that it actually looks handwritten. I have received several examples of this myself. I received a letter the other day from a company that appeared to be handwritten. Like you, I said that there was no way that it could be handwritten. I guess I had a little bit of time on my hand, so I pulled out my trusty magnifying glass and started looking at the individual letters. From what I saw, some of the letters were perfect duplicates of each other. But the letter did appear handwritten.
Anyways, I'll just say, regarding the "handwritten" bday card from WAMU, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Or we can just go with the notion that WAMU loves you so much that they're going to pay someone to especially write a card just for you. Either one works for me.
Posted by: arc | February 22, 2006 06:51 PM
Handwritten or not, you can't ignore the fact that they were ten days late. I mean c'mon, if you're going to take the trouble to make it look like you care enough to hand write the card, at least mail it on time. ;)
Posted by: Kari | February 23, 2006 12:29 AM
hah! very special.
Posted by: taylor | February 24, 2006 11:32 PM