Archive of Tricks & Places


John M Peckham III


Jack Peckham ( ) is the Executive Director of the Real Estate CyberSpace Society, based in Boston, MA.

TRICK#1: SECRET CODES TO BYPASS VOICE MAIL HELL!
TRICK#2: PHOTO STAMPS ARE BACK!
GREAT PLACE #1:
GREAT PLACE #2: PEOPLE SEARCHES

TRICK#1: SECRET CODES TO BYPASS VOICE MAIL HELL!
https://www.quickbase.com/db/bam6rdiey?a=q&qid=5
This one is worth keeping near the phone! These clever folks have built a growing list of secret codes to get you out of the sometimes endless and always frustrating maze of clicks you encounter every day trying to reach and talk to a real person on the phone.

This great place provides by the bypass codes to get you past the phone mazes of just about all of the major banks, cell and phone companies, credit card companies, PC manufacturer support lines, shippers such as FedEx and UPS plus many more. The codes can be sorted and searched in a number of ways and contains the company name and phone number plus the short cut to by pass the insanity and go directly to a human being!

This one is a keeper - and cheaper than hiring a psychiatrist!

TRICK#2: PHOTO STAMPS ARE BACK!
http://photo.stamps.com/PhotoStamps/
Those wildly popular (but earlier discontinued) photo stamps are back and better than ever. Photo stamps are a form of postage that allows you to include your favorite photograph or image on valid US Postal Service stamps. You can go here and design a professional-looking stamp by simply uploading the picture or image you wish featured on your stamps. Within a few days you will receive your sheet of high-quality customized photo stamps in the mail. They're legal and they work.

Just figure out who you want to impress and send them a letter with your photo stamp on it. They'll figure you're a national hero!

There are 47 topic categories ranging from "Academic" to "Weather". For example, your search for" house" will find 86 pages of media files. Similarly a "people" media search brings up over 100 pages of images.

This is a super source for many chores from birthday cards, to web design, to just keeping the kids quiet on a rainy Saturday! And the price is right these media files are on the house!

GREAT PLACE #2: PEOPLE SEARCHES
http://www.zabasearch.com/
Here's an interesting people search engine that has been described as "Google on steroids" and the "new 800-pound gorilla of people search engines."

This great place quickly accesses public information on people and displays what is available in public domain records such as phone listings, court records, real property records, subscriptions etc.

As an efficient search aggregator these folks have made personal information very easy to find. And easy on the wallet too -- there is no cost for the basic search at this great place.

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