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Did you know you can find out what is in your mail before you receive it. This includes both postal mail and packages sent through the United States Postal Service. I normally have a good idea by 11pm the prior evening, what is going to be in my mail the following day. The mail is scanned and a photo is put on thier website. I login and I can see my mail. Sometimes you might get a message that there was a piece of mail that could not be scanned. But the service is pretty reliable. Note.. It may not be available for everyone, but they are always expanding. All you have to do is apply, be approved and login. The process is pretty painless. This a free service from the USPS. Sign up here.. Sign on the USPS secure site

Part 1 of The Sweet/Salty Challenge was where I emailed 100 companies in order to get free snacks and candy. I collected the informaton and it took me approximately 7 hours to email all the companies asking for freebies and coupons. On that page you will see the the company/product, the date they emailed back and their responses. On Part 2 you will see all the companies who actually sent coupons or items in the mail and what I recieved. I know some of these companies and even though they say they won't send you coupons, they will anyways. We will have to wait and find out. Mail Call! Date Receiveded 7/21/2022 Company-J&J Snack Foods Corp Product-Luigis Italian Ice Received 6 $.50 Cent Coupons Tip At Walmart they sell Luigi Italian Ice for $2.98 each. I thought I saw them at my local Dollar Tree. I reseached and found out that some of Dollar Trees do sell them. If you use coupons, that will make them $.75 each. Not a bad deal. :) Date Received 7/2...

Sending emails to 100 Sweet and Salty Companies for coupons and freebies. What college student doesn't like some good junk food. I will post what I received and the respones to emails. July 14, I set up the Sweet and Salty Data Base July 18, I will contact all 100 companies. All companies emailed. I emailed some duplicated companies for different products. What did I write. I only wrote positive letters. I wrote how much I love their products and I listed the products by name. Example Chester's Puff Corn. I wrote how much I love their Cheddar Cheese Popcorn. I added, I really enjoy the texture and how light and airy they are. I also said, how flavor lifted my taste buds. I mentioned that we enjoy them at home all the time, and sometimes I would bring a bag to share with my class. I wrote about my kids at home and the kids I work with at school. I wrote I wasn't expecting freebies or free coupons but any money off coupons would help. (I mention tha...

Thank you to both state and community colleges, who sent me information and swag.  I am wrapping up this challange on 7/14, to start some other challenges. I may continue to get swag.   I will add any additional swag to the original blog pages. This is the total swag received from both state universities and community colleges ending 7/14. Not bad 😃 15 T-shirt- DMACC sent me 2 of the same T-shirt. 11 Pennants 4 bags, 2 nylon backpack,  1 burlap backpack and 1 tote bag. 2 Sunglasses, 1 can cozy and a pair of socks. A frisbee, a Covid mask, a luggage tag, a pair of earbuds, and a pretty beaded bracelet. 2 notepads, 2 Chapstick, a nail file and a  paddle. Lots of stickers, window decals, and water bottle stickers 2 cups,  a light, 2 fidgets and magnet. 23 Pens 5 pencils and 3 marker and a plastic zipper pouch That's it for now.  

Since I did the first college challenge and I am so far succeeding, I decided to do The Community College Challenge.  I did not find a list of email addresses for Community Colleges, so I went to good old Wikipedia and looked up community colleges and started visiting and emailing the various schools.  This took me over a week to send a email to every single school.  I tried mass emailing some schools using a .edu format with name of the school, with a BCC format and that was a failure, as some of the colleges have a spam or blocking system.  It is strange that I did not have this problem with the state universities.  So, I went to every community college website I could find and requested information and swag.  I figured I emailed over 500 community colleges with the same content email I used for the university and a form filler.   Thank in advance to those community colleges who sent information and swag.  Emails went out from June 24-July...

I sent my first group of email June 13 and the second batch on Just 14. Thank you in advance to all the college who sent me swag and teaching me about your colleges. I am looking forward into picking a university to attend in the spring. June 16, 2022 , I received to 2 large envelopes and a box. Wow these came so quick. Two of the packages are from University's in my state and the third on is from East Carolina University. No other Informational packets arrived today The University of New York at Fredonia sent me a blue Fredonia T-shirt and a fun fact card on Fredonia State University. Fredonia is about 2 hours away from where I live /. State University of New York at Oswego sent me a Suny Oswego T-shirt, a draw string burlap bag/backpack, 5 pens and 2 Oswego window clings. Oswego is about an hour and a half from where I live. East Carolina University sent me a lot of really of really cool swag. The sent me a ECU Pirates T-shirt, Sun Glasses, A large...