if people are still sending christmas cards to an apartment you've lived in for four years, they clearly never liked the past occupants very much and thus you should feel no guilt.
i feel like all you can do is respond with a polite "you've reached one of the many other allison williams, good luck finding the one you are looking for" response to the really personal ones and ditch the rest. this problem never happens to me, so maybe i'm not the person to give advice, though.
This happens to me, too. Apparently friends of every Kevin, Kim, Kathleen, and Kathy McKean in the world thinks they're at kmckean@gmail.com. I was first, suckas! But, I usually respond with something like "I think you've got the wrong kmckean. Best, Kate, Brooklyn, NY." But that usually works because they're looking for Kevin or Kim. Maybe put NY, NY after your name (even though I'm sure one of those AWs live here). Or try something like "I'm not AW the pageant queen, but AW the incredibly awesome editor at TONY. Check your address please." And if they respond with something stupid, ignore them. You did your internet duty--it's their job to figure it out.
Once I got a guy's receipt for all this bike equipment he ordered, including his credit card number. WTF, Kevin McKean? Didn't you enter that information in yourself?? I emailed the company and haven't gotten anything since.
Maybe celebutards are right about naming their kids stupid things like Bronx and Zuma. Those email address might still be available.
The "NY, NY" thing is good; I delete my signature so as not to put too much personal info out there, but I swear people don't get it when you say "I'm not the person you're looking for." They see "Allison Williams" in the "From" box and can't figure it out.
Hey, speaking of misdirected Christmas cards, I have one for you that came back to our apartment recently. I corrected a mailing label typo in your and your roommate's addresses by hand, but for some reason only one of my corrections was USPS-approved.
Your email misdirectors seem weak-minded, which means you should be able to wave your hand and say "this isn't the Allison Williams you're looking for" and have them obey, but that probably only works in person, at which point they would hopefully understand without you having to use the Force.
Doesn't hurt to let them know, on the off chance they actually have the right address and just typed yours anyway (I've done this with a person who kept the first part of her address but switched from yahoo to gmail). Maybe someday someone will be grateful instead of stupid.
Also, if the card senders were bothered by sending their friends cards and not getting one back, they'd have stopped by now, and it's not like you're going to send them a note telling them they have the wrong address, so you might as well enjoy them. We got a social security statement addressed to a very previous tenant the other day...she'd probably rather us be getting her christmas cards.
I have a LOT of experience with this, unfortunately (one major boner was that there was a Heather Mylastname in the Australian office of my last job. And she worked part time because she'd just had a baby. People would send totally time-sensitive stuff to her instead of me and I wouldn't get it for, like, a week. Suckers. I can't be held responsible if you're mentally slow
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i feel like all you can do is respond with a polite "you've reached one of the many other allison williams, good luck finding the one you are looking for" response to the really personal ones and ditch the rest. this problem never happens to me, so maybe i'm not the person to give advice, though.
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Once I got a guy's receipt for all this bike equipment he ordered, including his credit card number. WTF, Kevin McKean? Didn't you enter that information in yourself?? I emailed the company and haven't gotten anything since.
Maybe celebutards are right about naming their kids stupid things like Bronx and Zuma. Those email address might still be available.
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Also, people are stupid.
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Your email misdirectors seem weak-minded, which means you should be able to wave your hand and say "this isn't the Allison Williams you're looking for" and have them obey, but that probably only works in person, at which point they would hopefully understand without you having to use the Force.
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Also, if the card senders were bothered by sending their friends cards and not getting one back, they'd have stopped by now, and it's not like you're going to send them a note telling them they have the wrong address, so you might as well enjoy them. We got a social security statement addressed to a very previous tenant the other day...she'd probably rather us be getting her christmas cards.
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