Join Date: May 2000
Location: Houston, TX, USA
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joergi,
In the US, it's illegal for credit/charge card companies to send out a card unsolicited with an offer to "keep it if you like it, otherwise send it back or throw it away." There was rampant abuse by creditors in (I think) the 1970's that resulted in this legislation.