I sometimes mail people stuff!
That means I collect your addresses. Unlike Google, Amazon, the CIA, NSA, and FBI, I will not sell your address or do anything useful with it at all. Unlike them, I do not hide behind fine print, because I – basically – don’t care.
The way my email system works, I have some very aggressive spam filters and I archive everything for a long time. Upon my death, my accountant (who is my executor) will ensure that all my computers are destroyed. So, all the data will go poof, just – hopefully – not anytime soon.
If I ever suggest you send me your address, so I can send you something, if you get no reply, you are probably in my spam filter. If you ask me to delete any communications I have with you, I have the ability to do that, and will.
If you give me your address so I can send you stuff, I will most likely forget all about the whole thing in a month or two.
I really enjoy sending random people around the world weird stuff. And, once I get your address, there is a chance that I may randomly send you stuff for years. I will never send you anything explosive, toxic, or illegal and if I send you something sharp I will clearly label the package as such. But in general it’s a good idea not to jam your hand into a mystery box because, what if someone has sent you a beautiful hand-crafted damascus steel mouse-trap? (A bear trap would take way too much steel)
I love Marcus Mystery Boxes. They are a delight, always.
Have you also instructed your accountant to destroy the hard drives with your digital photos? If so, then I’m going to cry. Your photos are too good to be destroyed.
Destroying e-mails, personal correspondence, calendar notes, documents, etc. is reasonable. After all, why should anybody be interested in some random dead person’s e-mails? But nobody should ever destroy digital artworks.
My personal preference would be for all my digital artworks to be dumped online (high resolution, no watermarks, vector files wherever applicable) and become public domain immediately after my death (totally skipping the 70 year copyright period). I like the idea that after I die there will be people with my artworks tattooed on their skin, that my art will live long after me. Since I need my artworks as a source of income while I’m alive, I cannot just give them away for free for now. But I won’t need income after death, so I might as well let people have fun with my artworks then.
That sounds promising.
Is this the case also for international addresses (given the significantly more expensive shipping costs)?
How do we know that your accountant hasn’t been compromised by some three-letter agency?
I can see it now. Customs, accompanied by your friendly, neighbourhood RCMP officer drop by for a friendly chat about that 2 metre long double-handed sword that just crossed the border.
Well, I am sure I wouldn’t know. Hurrumph.
Ooh. How do people sign up for boxes of Marcuscellany? :D
Great! Now there’s gonna be a big rush and I’ll never get mine! Hurrumph!
Raucous Indignation@#7:
More resin and better magnets arrived today. I will begin production this week and you’re #1 in the queue.
Ieva Skrebele@#2:
Is this the case also for international addresses (given the significantly more expensive shipping costs)?
As Fuel Rats quartermaster I spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours boxing stuff up for international shipping; I’m used to it. So it’s no biggie. Send me an address by email and I will send you some loot!