Writing to companies

corblimey

I used to write to the likes of Tara Mines and Kinsale Gas asking for more information about their company. I'd get a load of marketing bumph back in the post. I have absolutely no idea why I did this, as it was always quite dry companies so if I was expecting something free from them, I was barking up the wrong tree; I should've been writing to Cadbury and USA Biscuits instead. "Hey, corblimey, here's some free gas!"

Did anybody else do this as a child? Why? Was it a primary school thing?

DublinWriter

Yeah, usually a 6th class project about "Ireland's Industries"...try tackling that in 1982.

I remember writing to B.I.M. and getting a wall-chart showing Ireland's Deep Water fish. Put me off sea-food ever since.

The b*stards that got to do Cadburys were asked by the teacher what was the difference between a Flake and a Twirl.

lord lucan

I was mad about trains as a kid so i used to write to CIE(pre-IE) asking how do you get to be a train driver. Always got the same reply about having to join CIE and work through the ranks to get there. They used to send back CIE stickers and information on the NEW DART!!:pac:

corblimey

DublinWriter wrote: »

Yeah, usually a 6th class project about "Ireland's Industries"...try tackling that in 1982.

Hey, we must be around the same age

That sounds around the same sort of thing, although I have an awful feeling that I did mine 'for fun'. Maybe I was given a couple of places by the teacher and just went mad and ended up writing to every godforsaken place I could get my hands on.

valarie001

yes i did this too, i wrote to any address i could find but we didnt have the internet then so we had to do somthing in our spare time! but it was only because i liked getting post and felt important when a big envelope of rubbish was delivered to me!!:D

Trafford Lad

I remember writing to all of the embassies asking for information about the country etc...they'd send loads of brochures etc! And I remember writing off to the Armagh Planetarium as a kid and getting loads of stuff sent back. I think we just loved getting stuff in the post as kids..Still do!...(well except bloody bills )

earlyevening

I remember writing to embassies too. The USSR sent me a nice map which I endlessly studied. Anyone need to know where their main petrochemical plants are??


It'll come in useful some day.

steveone

yes I'd say the american embassy had a special room for the letters from kids who had no santa to write to:D
I think it was a school thing. I remember writing to companies and embassies.

DublinWriter

earlyevening wrote: »

I remember writing to embassies too. The USSR sent me a nice map which I endlessly studied.

Yes, but in Soviet Russia, embassy studies you!

jmbkay

Yes, we did the same thing in primary school. It was always for school projects.

vektarman

We still get schoolchildren writing to our company for their school projects, in fact we've a project pack specifically for this, it just goes to show the internet hasn't changed some things.

rubadub

I wrote to computer game companies. I got a 1 or 2 games and keyrings and posters. Nintendo sent a fair bit of stuff interesting marketing info. I got a T-shirt for some ill fated commordore or philips cd console, wish I had kept it, probably a collectors item now.

PatB71

I remember writing to a load of the Football Associations just before the Euro88 championships (I think I got their addresses from my football sticker album) and got back a booklet from the Danes and I think I got a poster back from ze Germans.

Dinxminx

I did this with Durex two years ago and they sent me a bumper pack of samples! It was awesome! Think I'll go write to Cadbury's now...

DublinWriter

earlyevening wrote: »

I remember writing to embassies too. The USSR sent me a nice map which I endlessly studied. Anyone need to know where their main petrochemical plants are??

Omsk, perchance?

K4t

My dad told me that in his boarding school lads used to write to biscuit companies like Jacob's complaining that the packets were opened when they were fine etc. and would get a new packet sent out. He said food was scarce, espcially nice food!