Mike Brittain » Green http://www.mikebrittain.com/blog Internet, mobile applications, skiing, snowboarding, food... you know, whatever comes to mind. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:24:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Unsubscribing from Direct Mail Sent by Chase Bank http://www.mikebrittain.com/blog/2008/04/25/unsubscribing-from-direct-mail-sent-by-chase-bank/ http://www.mikebrittain.com/blog/2008/04/25/unsubscribing-from-direct-mail-sent-by-chase-bank/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:08:29 +0000 Mike Brittain http://mikebrittain.wordpress.com/?p=94 I’ve been working hard on cutting down my direct mail (spam) by calling, emailing, and submitting privacy forms to opt-out of direct mail marketing.  Some folks have been tougher than others.

Yesterday, Chase Bank sent two identical letters to my wife advertising the same credit card offer.  I spent at least ten minutes surfing around their web site reading terms and conditions, privacy policies, and contact addresses trying to find anything about how to unsubscribe from Chase’s direct mail.  Almost all of these options expected that you were already an account holder and had a username and password — including the option to send an “email correspondence” through their site.

Finally I found an option to send an email to customer service.  When they responded, they sent a URL for a mailing opt-out site, which I could not locate on Chase’s own web site.  If it’s there, they did a really good job of hiding it from anyone who’d be interested in finding it.

Nice job, Chase.

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There is also a super-simple installation for Firefox’s built-in search bar, making it easy to integrate into your day-to-day usage.

]]> http://www.mikebrittain.com/blog/2007/03/31/make-every-search-benefit-the-environment/feed/ 0 Improved Efficiency in Solar Power http://www.mikebrittain.com/blog/2006/10/25/improved-efficiency-in-solar-power/ http://www.mikebrittain.com/blog/2006/10/25/improved-efficiency-in-solar-power/#comments Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:30:40 +0000 Mike Brittain http://www.mikebrittain.com/2006/10/improved-efficiency-in-solar-power/ A new approach to solar power from Infinia appears to be a smaller alternative to standard photovotaic cells. Their solution also looks to be more efficient at converting solar energy to electricity.

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