Mike Seay of Antioch Illinois received a mailer from OfficeMax recently, one of the many random pieces of mail that get slid through the slot every day. But something was very wrong with this one: it was addressed to “Mike Seay, Daughter Killed in Car Crash or Current Business.”
Seay’s 17-year-old daughter Ashley was killed in a car crash last year.
“Why would they have that type of information?” Seay asked. “What purpose does it serve anybody to know that? And how much other types of other information do they have if they have that on me, or anyone else? And how do they use that, what do they use that for?”
Seay contacted the manager of OfficeMax’s call center, and eventually received a statement from the company:
“We are deeply sorry that Mr. Seay and his family received this mailing from us, and we are reaching out to Mr. Seay to convey our sincerest apologies on this unfortunate matter. This mailing is a result of a mailing list rented through a third-party provider. We have reached out to the third-party mailing list provider to research what happened. Based on a preliminary investigation today we believe this to be an inadvertent error; and we are continuing the investigation.”
This is all the more reason to do away with mailers entirely.
Via: Mediaite.com
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