AIG’s Direct Mail Timing is Perfect

by Joey deVilla on September 17, 2008

Your Irony is in the Mail

The guy who runs the I Poop Daily blog got this mailing from AIG yesterday:

AIG Mailing: "If disaster strikes, will you have the protection you need?"
Click the photo to see the original.
Photo courtesy of I Poop Daily.

Chalk it up to hilariously bad timing coupled with the “lag time” between planning an ad campaign and executing it. It would be a more amusing joke for anyone who got this package if only AIG didn’t have its tentacles everywhere.

Canary Wharf’s Unlucky Landlord

In other funny-but-sad bad timing news, it turns out that the rent on Lehman Brothers’ London office in Canary Wharf — the one featured in the picture in this blog entryis insured by…AIG. I’d hate to be that landlord right now.

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1 darryl September 17, 2008 at 1:05 pm

Bonus funny: the comments section at DIGG posts a link to this pic, and asks “Explain yourself”

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