Cute....or creepy?

I’d be happy if the card also had crisp $20 bills.

The unexpected mailouts are fairly normal for people with a ait of public clout.
I got a “Congratulations on being old enough to vote” card from the local incumbent when I turned 18, my grandparents got a “Congratulations on living in the electorate for fifty years”, and everyone in our local branch of the family gets an annual invite to the St Patrick’s Day dinner at the Irish Embassy due to granddad having a ‘colourful’ history back in the War of Independence.

So long as someone is recording these fairly useless bits of data, there’s always a chance that someone will find a way of using them.

I’d take a guess and say you have just come into a voting age and therefor it is a way of getting your attention, both to update your enrollment and to get your vote.

Of course if you just turned 30 then I would go with creepy…

Some time ago I worked briefly in a federal politicians office. They all had a cd [or might have been a dvd] with all Australian enrolled voters on it. I am fairly certain that it only had name, address, electorate and date first enrolled at that address. I didn’t think that it had the date of birth on it, but maybe it did and I have forgotten.

The disks were protected by a simple password, which was an Australian bird name that changed with every new issue of the disk [at least that was the case some time ago].

The disks were in great demand by debt collectors, private investigators and the like, as unlike the electoral roll that the public can examine in at the electoral office, you could search by address as well as by name.

The disk was meant to be used for electoral mailouts and the like.

doesn’t fly…too much spare time if they are pushing out birthday cards

a polly sending out b’day cards to randoms is a waste of tax payers money

I don’t think I would be too bothered by it. I mean, those details are available on the electoral roll etc.

My last job I worked for the British High Commission and we used to get birthday cards, hand signed and all, from the Commissioner, someone who many of us had never even met. Just felt like one of those automatic things and not something to something to worry about.

It may even work on some people who may not get other cards to brighten their day a little, so no harm.

See the post from earlier today: http://the-riotact.com/?p=32056

And read the comments – both sides do it, it’s not solely the domain of the ALP as that piece (and the referenced Age) article would have you believe.

I do however, agree, that said polly should get a clue and realise most people would see this as a negative not a positive.