# How to cause maximum irritation for credit card companies

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cause-maximum-irritation-for-credit-card-companies/513980>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 16, 2009, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cause-maximum-irritation-for-credit-card-companies/513980 "2009-10-16T02:18:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![caligynephobia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@caligynephobia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligynephobia)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cause-maximum-irritation-for-credit-card-companies/513980/41 "2009-10-17T23:06:45Z")

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I know it’s delusional, but I can’t help thinking it does have a small effect - for years I’d get two credit card offers from Citibank every month (I’m not a customer). About a year after I began stuffing the fine print cardholder terms sheet into the prepaid envelope and returning that, Citibank started leaving a cutout address window in the envelope that lined up with a pre-printed mailing address on the credit card application, which already had my name on it. I don’t think I’m the only one who was doing this, and maybe it was collectively irritating or costly to somebody that they made the change. For a while, I cut out the address and taped it to the inside of the envelope, but quit doing that some time before they stopped sending applications.

Cal

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**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cause-maximum-irritation-for-credit-card-companies/513980/42 "2009-10-17T23:34:02Z")

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> [@Mr.Slant](#):
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> …It’ll probably get forwarded to corporate security, and waste a whole bunch of time.  
> In fact, make a copy. Send to corporate security.  
> Not quite illegal, but creepy as hell.

You are so cool. 🆒

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