My family were all with me at the weekend, when a pretty, hand written envelope arrived in the post. It was addressed, ‘To everyone at:… then my address.
How lovely, l thought, someone knows we are all together this weekend for Mother’s Day and is wishing us a lovely time…
I opened the envelope and there was a nicely written note from ‘Lucia’… inviting us to a special event…
Enclosed was a leaflet…
I should’ve known, it was too good to be true and really it was a trick to entice people to open the envelope!
Here are the pics to show you the contents of the envelope. I have had to cover the scan boxes when l took the pics, as it takes you straight to “jw.org”.
I got something similar recently and as I stay on a quite large estate with blocks of 6 flats the postage costs alone must be horrendous as i suspect 99% of these letters get thrown in the bucket.
I had a similar thing a few days after I moved in here. A handwritten letter addressed to “The new neighbour” and on the back it had a “welcome to our street”. So I opened it thinking it was a lovely gesture, how sweet etc…and it was a handwritten religious blurble letter,
Same here. We rented out a house and when the tenants left we went in to decorate etc. We received a very nicely handwritten envelope through the door with a letter full of religious content. Went straight in the bin.
I had a similar letter from someone called Jeannie this week, all handwritten, inside a lovely little greetings card and posted via Royal Mail.
I didn’t realise that the JW members sent these letters out to everyone - it must cost them a fortune in postage, which I expect the members writing the letters pay for themselves, bless them.
I assumed I received the letter because the lady who used to live in my house (my mother) used to be a JW - although anyone who was part of the local JW congregation would have known that my Mum had died and that I lived here now. My Mum and my JW friends in the congregation had never been able to convert me into believing in God, despite my growing up hearing “The Truth” my whole life, so it’s pointless trying now.
We have never had that before, we don’t even get anyone calling at the house, maybe we are too far north for them to be bothered with us.
OR, maybe they believe we are still following our Viking ways, and they may be introduced to the business end of an axe. And decided not to risk it.
You wait until it’s your own brother going around, door knocking, trying to do the converting. And he used to leave religious tracts in phone boxes with our home address on. How embarrassing is that!
It was when he went on a ‘spreading the word holiday’ to Belgium, or it could have been Holland when an irate husband chased him off from a block of flats. Thought he was after his wife.
He used to be a persistent flock gatherer.
I’ve just checked my diary Arty, and I’m so sorry to have to let you down, but I’m going sky diving on that day and have booked a fitting for my budgie smugglers…So if you see a half naked man dropping out of the clouds, it will be me, and I’m afraid there’s no place to put my wallet…
