Open the snailmail box to pull out the correspondence that still comes in envelopes and whatnot. Hmm, here’s a florally decorated envelope with a star-spangled ribbon bearing the words PROUD TO SUPPORT AMERICA’S HEROES.
Prominently featured at mid-envelope, set off in a box and surrounded with more flowers:
Please honor America’s paralyzed vets by using them.
After a couple moment’s head-shaking and giggling, I notice in smaller, less emphasized type across the top of the envelope: “Your FREE labels enclosed!!!”
No… all this means is that, since they are soliciting donations, they want to ensure you are not legally obligated to actually send them money (if you didn’t request this “gift”, you aren’t anyway). They send the “free gift” in the hopes that you will send money that you might not have, otherwise, if they had just sent a note that asked you for some bucks.
I don’t know the statistics, but I’ll bet this works better than just a letter asking for money.
Yup. The antecedent of “them” has to be “vets”, unless you left out a previous sentence that’s clearly connected to this one. I figure that mebbe they tried to write “by using these labels” but ran out of room.
Or maybe they were thinking along the lines of (and I am not making this up) these young ladies ?
Yeah, it does. I don’t feel like searching through my psychology book for an exact quote, but I remember reading that exact same thing (I believe with the same example) when I was studying for the AP exam.