It would seem that when you open up a new account with AT&T they go ahead and sign you up to receive spam marketing material via email, text message, your phone, and by paper mail.
Ummmm, yeah, I’m going to have to uncheck these.
If you need to do the same, go to att.com/mywireless. It’s at the bottom of the Account Information tab of the My Profile section.
Found this through DaringFireball. Maybe John Gruber will notice this….
Just went to my account. Brand new – never had a wireless number until iPhone. I already had a paperless bill setup – and only had the “email new news” checkbox checked.
Possibly because I actually took the time to visit the site on my introductory email from AT&T?
Yes, these things are buried. But maybe there’s a bit more at work here – like defaults that give you and John dozens of paper paes to your bill, that some of us simply turned off as a normal thing to do when one signs up with a new service provider who bills you on a monthly basis. I mean – they DO have to demand payment one way or another, right? And yeah, snailmail may be outdated… but it usually is an “opt-out” sort of thing. At least in my experience.
Just a thought….
Not to be a pedant, but this is not “spam.” Let’s be precise about our words, or they’ll come to mean nothing.
But I understand wanting to turn this off.
It’s fucking spam. It’s unsolicited, undesired, useless, bandwidth-wasting, sanity-crushing spam. Opt-out or not, people should start standing up for themselves to companies like this that seem to think they can treat their customers this way. You shouldn’t have to opt out. You should have the option of a carrier with the dignity to politely provide service and the leave leave you the hell alone until you ask them to do something else for you. Boycott AT&T.
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