Archive for April 12th, 2008

Michigan is Where?

I saw a sweepstakes from Pure Michigan, an organization devoted to promoting Michigan. You could win a trip to a waterpark. The reason the advertisement was noteworthy is that you were to mail the form to Minnesota.
Overall form

Detail of form address

If Michigan is so great, which I do think it is, then why is Pure Michigan not in Michigan?   I know – they just contracted with an existing letter-opening and sweepstakes-handling firm.  But isn’t that the point of Pure Michigan – to get people to do things in Michigan?  I would expect that at least one company in Michigan would be capable of handling their contest needs.

“He changes a wilderness into a pool of water And a dry land into springs of water; And there He makes the hungry to dwell, So that they may establish an inhabited city”
– Psalm 107:35-36