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Money Mailbox

Nowadays, we can literally stop our bills from coming to us. Most companies let us receive our bills electronically, which allows us to cut back on the number of mail that we receive. When I first noticed companies advertising this, I was thinking to myself that this is yet another way that companies [...]

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I’m waiting for a check worth a good amount to be sent to my attention. I’m really not sure why I am setup for checks because I’m always anxious whenever I wait for that check to come every month. Checks are slow, provide almost no visibility of when it will come and inconvenient [...]

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Yesterday, I received a notice from the rental car company telling me that I didn’t pay toll on one of the toll booths in Chicago, Illinois.  Didn’t pay toll?  I would never skip that and I live in Southern California!
As my blood started pumping faster and I was beginning to fill with anger, I remembered [...]

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Please be reminded that the winners of the gas cards giveaway will be announced next Monday (August 18th)!
I was just at the pump yesterday and it still costs me $50 to fill up my tank even with the recent relief of gas prices. Looking back, I have spent $15,000 on gas already in my [...]

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Getting and reading the quarterly 401k account statements used to be quite a joyful event. The numbers keep going up, the row that says Market Value Change is always positive and my grin always get bigger.
This year however, it’s a little different.
With the downturn of the stock market, the value of my 401k account [...]

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I received a postcard from Countrywide Home Loans yesterday advertising the benefits of their home loan program. Features include:

Down payment and closing cost assistance
100% financing
No minimum credit score required
Flexible qualifying guidelines
30, 35 and 40-year loan terms available
Fixed rate and fixed period Adjustable Rate Mortgages (ARM) options

During the housing boom, many of these loan agencies [...]

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Thanks to privacy laws, consumers like us have the rights to restrict companies from passing our personal and financial information with their affiliates and companies that they do business with.  Just the other day, HSBC sent me a letter asking me to respond by checking the check box besides the two following statements if I [...]

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Last week, I decided to take advantage of a mail offer to receive literature of the luxury resort package a company is promoting.  While I was not interested in joining or owning a piece of this property, I wanted the bonus gift of Zagat Survey’s 2008 Golf Guide.
I logged onto the website, and entered my [...]

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I received a mailing recently from a luxurious resort asking me whether I would like a free DVD that explains how I can feel like owning a vacation home with a fraction of the cost. Like most sales type mail, I usually throw it out right away but this one tempts me because as [...]

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Money Mailbox is a new series here at Money Ning that talks about different money related mail that comes through my mailbox. As we get a ton of junk mail every day, this should spark some interesting posts so stay tuned!
Recently, I got a reward statement from a Visa card that I no longer [...]

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