Mailing away for further information, c/d?

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Pre-internet, one got helpful consumer information from companies and organisations by writing to them asking for it (or maybe phoning their toll-free help line, if they were really on the cutting-edge). As a kid, it was also a great way to get semi-interesting packets in the mail (yay). Have you ever done this, and did you get anything particularly useful?

― Poppy (poppy), Friday, 7 November 2003 08:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I should answer my own question, shouldn't I? The best thing I got was probably a booklet of baking recipes from C*w Br*nd soda which I still use. Tampon samples were useful, huge wadges of Parliamentary Procedure and Emergency Preparedness info somewhat less so.

― Poppy (poppy), Friday, 7 November 2003 08:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, I remember doing a lot of this in the late seventies. All sorts of stickers and weird things -- and all from Pueblo, Colorado! Amazing!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 November 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

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