Recently, I went to the mailbox to retrieve the daily mail.  Quickly flipping through the couple of postcards offering to “buy my home” and an AARP membership request, I almost passed over an envelope with the return address logo of Georgia-Pacific, Consumer Products.

I paused for a moment, wondering why I’d received correspondence from this company?  And then I remembered…..

A few weeks back, at the beginning of the toilet paper shortage, I embarked on a quest to find a few of the elusive rolls.  Not just any rolls of the white necessity, but, according to my Dad, only the ones contained in a package labeled “2-ply ‘our thickest ever’ with the baby and angel wings” on it would fill the bill (or the toilet roll holder).  The mistake I made purchasing a package of 1-ply no-name brand toilet paper is documented in a previous post “An Angel for the Throne”, written on April 18.  (Please read it if you haven’t already as it is the first part of this story!)

Following the advice of a dear friend, I contacted the maker of Angel Soft toilet paper (Georgia-Pacific), and wrote to them about the challenge I had locating their product during this COVID-19 crisis.  I did let them know I eventually secured a couple of packs at a local store, thus making my father a very happy man.  This was a positive comment, and I believed it would be feedback welcomed by the company.

Why was I receiving correspondence from Georgia-Pacific three weeks later?  Please read for yourself:

 

 

Here is a photo of the enclosed “courtesy coupons” which they mailed in an attempt to “regain my confidence”.  They never lost my confidence (or my Dad’s) in their product!!!  I simply need to be Confident that I can Buy Angel Soft Toilet Paper when I go to the store!  The certificates were great….please don’t think I am discounting the generosity of the Georgia-Pacific Corporation.  It was as if I’d won Willy Wonka’s Golden Ticket……only I didn’t have the chocolate bar, a tour of the factory, or in this case, toilet paper.

Did they not thoroughly read the feedback I sent on the online consumer comment form?  I CAN NOT LOCATE ANY ANGEL SOFT TOILET PAPER IN ANY STORE TO PURCHASE, COUPON OR NOT!  Sure, $10 worth of free TP is fabulous…..but currently unobtainable!  Couldn’t they have simply mailed me a few rolls instead?  Or a few sheets?

I will persevere, and keep my hopes up that SOMEDAY another package of Angel Soft will appear on a local store shelf so I can happily present my coupons for $10 of the free rolls of “white gold”.

Until that time, I will ration the meager supply that remains, and (if desperation strikes) I pray Dad and I won’t have to split the coupons to use in ways other than initially intended.  After all, they are only “one ply”!

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P.S.  A very dear, life-long friend appeared at my back door a few of days ago with a beautiful, 12 double-roll pack of Angel Soft 2-ply “our thickest ever” toilet paper!  It was better than a floral bouquet or box of chocolates!  THANK YOU SUSAN!  I will return the favor….when I can find some in the store so I can use my coupons.