I got another one of those letters from Capital One today.

You know the ones, they include some checks and tell me about this great opportunity to run up my credit card balance using these easy and convenient checks.

Here's the opening lines of the letter...

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Jeremy Riggs,

Inside this letter you'll find way to gain access to cash and possibly save money in interest.  Not only that, but your head won't explode trying to figure out which terms are best for you.  Now, doesn't that seem no hassley?

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I get such a kick out of how business letters have been reduced to lines like the ones above.

I imagine some poor schlub spent an awful lot of money and worked pretty hard to get a college degree in marketing, only to land a job at Capital One, where they tell him to dumb down the sales pitches for stupid America and write crap like "Now, doesn't that seem no hassley?"