Fluke product registration card (#E24)
Silly people doing silly things.
Today: Fluke product registration via snail mail.
In the dark ages of the Interwebs™, retail hardware often came with some registration post card. I think I never sent one in, but apparently this was how one would subscribe to real newsletters on colourful dead tree.
Five months ago, in a low-key effort to clean up the office for a) a cleaner office (duh!) and b) less junk around that needs to be sorted, thrown out or boxed before early January ’25 when the company moves to a new building, I sifted through stuff from a random rack. Out came a well-preserved ziplock bag that contained documentation and an “International Business Reply Mail” postcard from Fluke. I don’t know from which of our super random selection of Flukes, maybe a 179, maybe a 79-III or an 80 series, maybe even the weird handheld oscilloscope?, dunno, but they likely all contained the same card.
Soo it said the following:
And clearly I want to be notified of promotions and exclusive invitations, especially now that I know that sourcing Fluke spare parts is a royal pain in the ass.
So I filled out the survey in the back of the correct card (there’s one for ‘murican customers, EU and Asia) and put it in the next physical mailbox. Super weird stuff, I know. Shipping paper around the world, what a crazy thing to do.
As I said, that was five months ago, but I haven’t heard back. Fluke never sent me physical mail, or electronic mail, or even called me. But I also didn’t get the thing back, so either those business mail things get discarded when the P/O box is no longer active, or Fluke actually got my mail and never acted on it. Shouldn’t they be thrilled some idiot on the other side of the planet finally managed to send them physical mail after purchasing one of their products?
