AR-News: (US-IL) Company responds to offensive catalog cover

[CompassionForCam at aol.com]

Please thank ULINE, a large shipping supply specialist company, for caring, 
and for their immediate response to withdraw their current catalog.

The cover of the catalog featured a gold fish in a plastic bag.

Read our brief appeal and their subsequent response:

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<COMPASSIONFORCAM at AOL.COM> 07/01/2003 02:40 PM 
        
        To:        <customer.service at uline.com> 
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        Subject:        Web: Customer Service Issue

Name: Marion Churchill
Company: Compassion for Camden, Inc.
Phone: 8567511571
Fax:

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Comment:
The cover of your current catalog (live fish in plastic bag) is an insult to 
anyone who cares about animals. If your intend was to support pet shops you 
should know that animals there are viewed as disposable, nothing other
than money machines.

At New Jersey's State and county fairs live fish ping pong tosses have been 
outlawed. The law passed in part because of plastic bags.

Please, take the time to enlighten yourself by going to www.peta.org

Thank you.

Marion Churchill

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Dear Marion: 

We appreciate your comments and your passion for your cause.  We have stopped 
the release of that particular catalog, because of what the cover is 
implying.  It is not an actual fish in that bag, but that is what the picture implies. 
  

We will certainly be more selective and vigilant in the future when we go 
through the process to choose a catalog cover. 

Please feel free to contact us if we can be of further assistance. 


Adam Higdon
Internet Call Center Supervisor
(800)295-5510
ahigdon at uline.com 



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