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Back in 2007 the Federal Trade Commission put Mystic Stamp Company ads and solicitations
under some scrutiny. Their findings are documented at this link:
The part about "not sending additional approvals before the previous approval is paid for
is BS. After Dad passed, I was receiving them rapid fire, and getting bill after bill, and
while I know now what an approval is, back then I didn't, and we just assumed that Dad had
bought these packs of stamps, and they were just sending what was already paid for! So,
needless to say, we were about 10 approvals in the hole before we realized how it worked.
So, then I gathered the ones I could find, things were hectic, and sent them back with
instructions to stop sending any more. They kept coming and coming, along with bills demanding
payment for the packets we still had not been able to account for. Fact is that to this day
we still don't know if we actually received everything that we were billed for. They didn't
stop sending packets until I sent them a letter worded the way the AG's office told me, stating
basically that anything they sent from a set date forward, would be considered unsolicited and
would be kept as a 'gift' as provided by law. The instant they got that letter, they called us
RIGHT up and said they had x-amount of packets in the mail to us, and they would appreciate if
we would send those back... as opposed to keeping them, of course. Before this time, all requests
were ignored and they would not talk to us... all the sudden, they are cooperative.
Posted 05/09/2013 11:54 am
