Both my bank accounts are with banks that I've shopped. I'm getting ready to open a third for more shop opportunities.

Gosh, Im not discussing movies with my mail carrier(notice no gender). I wonder how s/he knows I subscribe to Netflix?

Yes, the bank tellers at my bank read my checks. Yes, they know.

It's a little earlier in the thread, but I agree with spaztck.
Whenever someone has asked me I give them the CORI website,
tell them to try out a couple shops, and let me know if they like the shops and want more help.

So far no one's come back to me.


spaztck Wrote:
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> I have had a few people ask me about it. I give
> them this website and the website for MarketForce,
> since that was one of the first companies I
> shopped for. I tell them to read, read, read and
> take one shop and try it and see how they like it.
> Time will go by and they will ask me about it
> (mystery shopping) again. In each case, they
> never even tried one shop.
>
> By just giving them the two websites, I leave it
> up to them to continue the process. For the most
> part, I think most people will look at the pay and
> what is involved and not spend the time to
> continue. I am not trying to discourage them, but
> so far, no one really wants to do the leg work to
> get started.

If it were me, I would just provide the names of a few generic MS web sites (like MSPA and volition) and leave it at that.

I don't know if this applies but...

I live in a small town outside of a city that still has a small town atmosphere. When I first moved here a few years ago, my mailman had the audacity to put my name on my mailbox. My mailbox already had it's house number on it, but no name. I didn't see a reason to put my name on it, I'm a single woman and I don't feel the need to advertise that, either. So one day when I'm checking my mail, there's a taped piece of paper against my mailbox with my full name clearly marked on it. I freaked. I ripped it off. The next day, I asked the mailman if he had put it up there. He told me he did, because I was new in town and this way, he would "remember me" and if anyone else had to deliver to me, they would know who I was, too. Wtf? I grew up in North Jersey, in a congested area, and we just didn't do things like that. I grew up with locked doors, not talking to strangers, etc. I told him never to put my name up again, advertising who lives in this home. He just looked at me as if I was the strange one.
I guess some mailmen take it upon themselves to do what they want.
And they overstep their boundaries. Mine does. One day he handed my mail to some guy that happened to stop by to visit at noontime to drop something off at my home. I answered the door and my friend has my mail in his hand and says, "Oh here-your mailman handed me your mail."
I don't think they should be doing anything but taking mail from their bags/trucks and putting it into your mailboxes. Period. No look-sees. Mail is personal.

How disturbing that your mail carrier could put your safety at risk and do it so casually.

It was more than that. That mail carrier was lazy and unprofessional. It blows my mind that the carrier handed the friend the mail. How on earth would the carrier know (1) that was a friend or (2) that CeriseMaross would not mind the friend handling her mail?

Two things:

We had a mailman who threatened to quit delivering our mail because our post was barely an inch off of the designated distance from the street. It wasn't falling down or on an angle like the people across the street, he just didn't like where it was. It had been up since we built the house 22 years earlier and he had been delivering our mail for a few years by then. He left a note with very specific requirements. He just didn't like it! Thankfully, he retired.

It is my understanding that mail boxes are only for mail and that it is a federal offense for non-residents to put in or take out anything from them. (Like when you deliver invitations to your kid's birthday party. We all do it, but we're not supposed to.) By that logic, mail should only be handed to the resident as well. And the mailman should know and abide by the rules! Ever consider reporting him?

It is a federal offense for anyone but the Post Office to use your mailbox. Not that I've ever heard of anyone being prosecuted for it!

I have delivered newsletters for our Neighborhood Watch. Way back when we first started the Watch, a resident complained to the Post Office about our putting the newsletters in his mailbox. Ever since then, we find ways to attach the newsletter to each home's door. I will never put something into anyone's mailbox.

As for the small town mindset, CeriseMaross reminded me of a story my friend told me when she moved from Los Angeles to a small housing addition about 25 miles north of Reno. Shortly after she moved, she came home after work one day and she heard a knock. It was her neighbor, who wanted to know why her door was locked. She said UPS had a package for my friend, but since her door was locked, the driver couldn't put it inside the house. So they took it to the neighbor (don't know why UPS didn't just leave it on my friend's porch).

The neighbor informed my friend that everyone in the neighboorhood didn't lock their doors, and moreover, left the car keys in the cars! She checked around and found out she was the only one locking her door and car. So she quit, but said she never really got used to leaving everything unlocked.

When I moved here to this small town in the boondocks I never locked my doors and the keys were left in my cars all the time.

I stopped leaving the doors unlocked after a neighbor kid was found to be entering the house without my knowledge. But never saw any sign that he'd ever taken anything. I think he just didn't like being home with his parents.

It's not uncommon for postal carriers to put names in boxes, but I have never heard of them putting it on the outside. In the past few houses I have lived, the mail carrier puts the names of the residents on a piece of paper and that goes into a little plastic holder on the inside of the box.

BusyBeeBuzzBuzzBuzz Wrote:
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> It was more than that. That mail carrier was lazy
> and unprofessional. It blows my mind that the
> carrier handed the friend the mail. How on earth
> would the carrier know (1) that was a friend or
> (2) that CeriseMaross would not mind the friend
> handling her mail?

I know, right? When the guy handed me my mail, it DID blow my mind. I wondered if he had looked at it. I'm an extremely private individual, and just the idea that this guy had the opportunity to look at my mail freaked me out. He didn't have any idea that this guy was my friend, he simply assumed, because the guy was standing at my door and it's a small town. Ugh!