{"id":733,"date":"2006-02-03T18:32:11","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T22:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/02\/03\/prefer-to-pay-with-silver-dollars\/"},"modified":"2006-02-03T18:32:11","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T22:32:11","slug":"prefer-to-pay-with-silver-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/02\/03\/prefer-to-pay-with-silver-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Prefer to Pay With Silver Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7944'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>Last week we got one of those artfully timed dinnertime calls from<br \/>\n        an earnest young woman trying to sell us a service we didn&#8217;t need. It<br \/>\n        was<br \/>\n        a &quot;tepid&quot; telemarketing call, as opposed to a cold call.&nbsp; That<br \/>\n        is, it came from a company we already do business with, offering further<br \/>\n        &quot;services&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>As it is, we purchase both a product (The Boston Globe) and a service<br \/>\n        (delivery of aforementioned Boston Globe) from this company on a daily<br \/>\n        basis. The caller was trying to convince us to change to credit card<br \/>\n        billing. &quot;I notice that you are still paying your bill every month by<br \/>\n        check.&quot; Slight disdain and incredulity in her voice,as though we were<br \/>\n        among the last few crusty holdouts. She didn&#8217;t need to mention that stamps<br \/>\n        had just gone up two cents again.<\/p>\n<p>We explained that we <em>liked<\/em> to write them a check every month,<br \/>\n        that it reminded us of what a good deal the paper was.&nbsp; Well, we<br \/>\n        were told, if we came to our senses, just call this number.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, when a company we do business with calls us at dinnertime<br \/>\n        with some worthless waste of time we drop them like Simon Cowell drops<br \/>\n        the obvious head cases, but in this case we are helpless. We are absolutely<br \/>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/01\/23#a7880\">addicted<br \/>\n        to the Globe<\/a> in the morning, and the alternative (the Herald)<br \/>\n        has a few decent writers and a lot of holes and pap. But we&#8217;d be damned<br \/>\n        if we would let them tap directly into our financial flow.<\/p>\n<p>So, we felt more than somewhat vindicated this morning to read, top<br \/>\n        center on the Boston Globe web site, the following advisory:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>ATTN. Boston Globe subscribers: Confidential<br \/>\n          credit and bank card account information of Boston Globe and Worcester<br \/>\n          Telegram &amp; Gazette subscribers<br \/>\n        who pay for their home delivery subscriptions by credit card was recently<br \/>\n        inadvertently disclosed on the back of slips used to label bundles of<br \/>\n        the Worcester Sunday Telegram. The bank routing information of some Telegram &amp; Gazette<br \/>\n        subscribers who pay by automatic withdrawal may also have appeared on<br \/>\n        some of these newspaper bundle sheets. To find out whether your financial<br \/>\n        information may have been released, please visit www.bostonglobe.com\/cclookup.<br \/>\n        Also, customer service representatives are available to answer questions<br \/>\n      at this toll-free number: 888-665-2644.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Apparently financial information of over 220,000 subscribers<br \/>\n        was inadvertently sent to the presses and printed on huge sheets of newsprint.&nbsp; Instead<br \/>\n        of being immediately destroyed, some braniac decided to use it to wrap<br \/>\n        up the bundles of papers being distributed in Worcester. Waste not, want<br \/>\n        not. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Here is the news story about their gaff from arch-rival <a href=\"http:\/\/business.bostonherald.com\/businessNews\/view.bg?articleid=124246\">Boston<br \/>\n          Herald<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we got one of those artfully timed dinnertime calls from an earnest young woman trying to sell us a service we didn&#8217;t need. 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