I finally decided I'm receiving too much freakin' email and I'm going to do something about it. Most of the useless email I get is from places I have shopped at in the past (Macy's, Lands Ends, REI, FTD, etc...). I never excluded myself from their email bombs before because I figured they might be useful. And guess what, I always delete them and very RARELY read what's in them. I finally came to the conclusion (I blame the delay on being so busy from work, and now that I have a whole month off, I can take the time to take care of things) that I can dump these emails.
So now I'm on a quest to not receive useless crap in my email. So I go to the bottom of all those messages and find the "Click here to unsubscribe" lines. Here's my beef:
NOTE: Please enter the e-mail address where you are currently receiving FTD.com e-mails. Due to timing issues, you may potentially receive one or two future messages before your unsubscribe request is implemented.
So you're telling me in this age of super computers and the "interweb" that it's impossible to instantly remove my email address from all their mailing lists? It's not like Mr. Email-Remover-Level-One employee has to manually open every email list, search for my email address, and then delete it. I cannot fathom how it would take "one or two" future messages. Unless those messages have already been sent and they're currently on their way to my inbox. That has to be it! There must be some good explanation. It baffles me though.
