Ever wonder why junk mail comes to your mailbox?

March 18, 2002 8:17 PM

Ever wonder why junk mail comes to your mailbox? Enter your zip code (US only) to see where your neighborhood fits in marketing categories.
posted by MidasMulligan (17 comments total)

what is this, rugurgitate fark.com day?
posted by rhizome23 at 8:18 PM on March 18, 2002

err....regurgitate....HEAVE!
posted by rhizome23 at 8:19 PM on March 18, 2002

Well, asshole comments aside rhizome23, this is a double post. Come down to the British troops thread Midas. I'd love to hear what you have to say.
posted by BlueTrain at 8:29 PM on March 18, 2002

Via Fark

COME ON ADMIT IT
posted by Settle at 8:30 PM on March 18, 2002

Oops. Damn. Still not certain how to fully check for redundancy here. Terribly sorry.
posted by MidasMulligan at 8:32 PM on March 18, 2002

Eh, after you write your post, google your keywords in the MeFi search...that's how I found it. Plus, I've seen it here before.
posted by BlueTrain at 8:34 PM on March 18, 2002

Via Fark
COME ON ADMIT IT

Actually, via the Director of Marketing at my office. Don't know where she got it. She sent it to me and asked if I knew of any similar profiling in the EU.
posted by MidasMulligan at 8:35 PM on March 18, 2002

I had missed this the first time around, so double post notwithstanding, thanks, Midas.
posted by Zosia Blue at 8:55 PM on March 18, 2002

The director of officing at your market reads fark. The directors at my office send my spam because they think I'm a bunch of lazy drinks.
posted by EngineBeak at 9:41 PM on March 18, 2002

well, as someone who doesn't read fark.com and realizes that 18 march (a Monday, no less) is an amnesty day of sorts, thanks midas.
They pegged me 2 of 25.
I did the google searches (even linking within posts that mention metafilter, I gave up after 20 minutes, not to mention server times out on Metafilter search). This is the first time I've paid attention to the link, perhaps. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
posted by G_Ask at 9:53 PM on March 18, 2002

Excellent. Where I live, apparently we like to take our cats to Wal-Mart to buy chain-saws, used cars and flea & tick products. Then, on our way to Sea World, we do target shooting out the window of the train.

And to think, just a couple years ago we were the Silicon Village. The times do change...

Screw fark. Good link, Midas.

Now I understand why I keep getting those dang "Girlfriends" catalogs
posted by ook at 10:24 PM on March 18, 2002

Damn. I gotta move.
posted by Dick Paris at 10:32 PM on March 18, 2002

So, this link gives me hope. I'll be moving this summer, and--apparently--the place I'm moving to is exactly like the place I'm moving from. That makes me smile.
posted by ColdChef at 10:36 PM on March 18, 2002

She sent it to me and asked if I knew of any similar profiling in the EU.

Any luck, Midas?
posted by MiguelCardoso at 10:46 PM on March 18, 2002

Sheesh. Of course, things hit fark because they're being mailed around, and get mailed around because they hit fark.

Midas, to say the least, doesn't seem to fit the ... uh ... fark "lifestyle group". Too many words, you know, well-chosen.
posted by dhartung at 10:49 PM on March 18, 2002

I knew I was in "shotgun and pickups" territory already. I just wish it hadn't been confirmed!
posted by allpaws at 6:17 AM on March 19, 2002

In the UK you can use Up My Street.
posted by kerplunk at 12:09 PM on March 19, 2002