PLATINUM CARD FOR PUSSY!
10/27/2005 10:44 p.m.
The credit card market is a cut throat competition and no one knows that better than a postie. We are flooded daily with mountains of card offers, not only from our Canadian banks, but recently from American companies - after the untapped Canuck buck. MBNA, Capital One, Citi Bank, they literally have weekly mailings, bombarding an ever-widening mailing list with perks & introductory offers. They imply that you are part of an elite, exclusive group, handpicked for the honor of wielding their plastic.

I have gotten a laugh in the past, at some of the "exclusive" targets of these cards on my mail walk - drifters, grifters & assorted ne'r-do-wells who would abscond with the fillings in your teeth given half a chance. But today was the topper. Mr. Meyer Jaboni got a pre-approved application for a credit card. Not just any card - a platinum card. Not just any platinum card - a MasterCard Platinum PLUS card.

Mr. Meyer Jaboni is my cat. Gonna ink up his paw pad - send off the application - and await his spanking new card. After buying Science Diet for the little bastard for fifteen years it's about time he repaid me - with a plasma T.V. bought with a 0% interest rate perhaps. Gooooood kitty!
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