THE MAIL BOX IS FULL!

Old Trunks wonders if Grandma ever got advertising in her mail box beyond the Montgomery Wards or Sears Roebuck catalogs. She wonders what she did with them. She wonders if she pondered.

An envelope of coupons and advertisements came to our box recently. There must be twenty slicks in the envelope.

The first one I pulled out was for a church advertising their spirit-filled events. The church is located at the intersection of Faith and Life. It is the first time I have seen something like this, how about you? There is no email address! I wonder what Grandma would say.

The next is an advertisement for a buffet type establishment in Fargo. No where on the coupon does it say it is going out of business. Better not go hungry and find the doors locked and the steam table cold!

How about address labels? Grandma would have liked these but she and her friends wrote everything in pencil so they could erase and send the card on to someone else.

Life insurance: $15, 000 guaranteed. No prices listed.

Earth friendly checks meaning all checks printed on recycled paper. You can make a difference by having checks with the Ribbon of Hope, wildlife, humane society, or defenders of wolves. BUT WAIT, there is another advertisement, with this company, you can get a picture of a Ford truck that looks just like mine! But tell me this, how many checks do you write?

Need your car service?

Tuffy
Meineke
Firestone

The last straw, no pun intended, is a Presidential Straw Poll. It says Specials Delivery, the company that makes this packet, will award $1,000 in cash and gift certificates to voters selected randomly from those entered by September 3. One needs to send in the ballot in order to qualify. It goes on to ask who all reads the ads in the envelope and wants to know if there is any one else they should send the information to in the future.

Then, of course, their are ads for

Pizza
Hamburgers
Loose meat sandwiches


I wonder if next month another church will advertise; Grandma is turning over in her grave.

Happy anniversary Brian and Michelle

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