I would like to warn your readers about a company called Comp-U-Card.
About two months ago, I received a Compucard (which looks just like a credit card). The literature that accompanied it promised some amazing offers; none of which interested me.
After I sent a nasty letter to the managing director I was assured they were sorry and wouldn't bother me again, and would inform me where they had obtained my address and buying habits (all the Compucard goods seemed aimed at buyers of hi-tech goods).
I have since received no less than six more Compucards. I retaliated by filling the Freepost envelopes with heavy scrap metal, hoping that the postage bill would deter them - but this morning yet another of the dratted things dropped through my letterbox!
Through the pages of your magazine, I invite any Compucard representative to offer an explanation. I am convinced that there is a large mainframe somewhere with my name and address and my buying habits. It seems as I don't have much choice about who keeps information about me, or to alter it should it be wrong. Well, it was 1984 last year.
16th February 1985
