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I’ve always wondered why every — yep, I’m pretty sure I really do mean every — credit card offer (”You’re pre-approved!” “0% interest!” “We’ll have sex with you if you sign up!”) I’ve ever received has come from Wilmington, Delaware. Don’t believe me? Start looking at the return address on the envelopes as they come in.Wikipedia, as usual, shines light on the subject, informing us that it’s a simple matter of a liberalization of banking laws that attracted these banks to the area.

Still, I wonder what the success rate of these offers is. I get nearly a dozen a week, and I’ve never accepted one. In fact, if I were looking to open a new credit card, I’d probably make sure to not use one of these mailed offers, just to discourage these bastards from dumping this stuff on people in future. Not that it’d have any real effect, unless…

Does anyone own www.StopSendingUsShit.com? Let the revolution begin!

clipped from en.wikipedia.org The city in the 1980s experienced tremendous job growth[citation needed] and office construction when many national banks and financial institutions relocated to the area after the Financial Center Development Act of 1981 substantially liberalized the laws governing banks operating within the state. In 1986, the state adopted legislation targeted at attracting international finance and insurance companies. Today many national and international banks, such as Bank of America, Chase, Barclays among others have operations in the city; typically their credit card operations.

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