{"id":317,"date":"2017-03-28T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/?p=317"},"modified":"2017-03-28T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T21:47:00","slug":"more-mailbox-mayhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/2017\/03\/28\/more-mailbox-mayhem\/","title":{"rendered":"More Mailbox Mayhem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a while since I <a href=\"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/category\/eric-dalton\/\">shared the contents of my &#8220;Other Eric Dalton&#8217;s&#8221; spam folder<\/a>. Much of it really isn&#8217;t spam and the past few weeks has seen a few real gems. Names, excepting mine, have been changed to protect the errant!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I continue to get invoices and quotes intended for E.D. of South Africa. Everything from industrial vacuums to boxes of paper to&#8230; <strong><em>Grease Nipples!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-319\" src=\"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/gnips-300x208.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/gnips-300x208.png 300w, http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/gnips.png 431w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My namesake in Minneapolis is invited annually to a CBS Sports March Madness pool. As best I can tell&#8230; he has never won the pool&#8230; possibly because it is my address getting the invite? Phoenix Arizona E.D. was busy too&#8230; with a different kind of pool. He got a quote from North Star Pools for cleaning out and repairing his swimming pool. He&#8217;s one of the worst for giving my address to marketers.\u00a0 It is nice to finally pinpoint a location. Now that I have his address I&#8217;ll send him a post card when I&#8217;m visiting.\u00a0 Over the years he is probably responsible for:<br \/>\nNorth Star Pools (March 2017)<br \/>\nDesert Schools Federal Credit Union (March 2017)<br \/>\nP.F. Chang&#8217;s (February 2017)<br \/>\nHughes Federal Credit Union (October 2015)<br \/>\nPetSmart (March 2015)<br \/>\nUniversity of Phoenix (April Fools 2011)<\/p>\n<p>But my FAVORITE of the week was this gem from my friends in Virginia:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-320\" src=\"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/venmo-300x298.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/venmo-300x298.png 300w, http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/venmo-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/venmo.png 326w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have no words to describe my feelings about this email. Until next time, stay classy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharing is caring&#8230; but I don&#8217;t appreciate people sharing my email address just because we share the same name! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}